Movies: Stand up

Ben wields a knife on stage, grabs an audience member’s head by his ears, stares down into his soul, and screams “I was on extended basic cable television!” Ben howls out to the audience with an eccentric enthusiasm – and they howl back and echo the ...

This 1986 Showtime Special features the late great Harry "The Hat" Anderson performing a slick, occasionally shocking mix of magic and comedy for a live audience, inter-cut with a few sequences in which he repeatedly scams a mark. Look for Night Cour...

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From Dr. Phil to Dr. Pimple Popper, Adam Ray's rapid fire delivery covers awkward flights, his rapper brother in law, Disneyland etiquette, and his childhood dream....

Ferguson returns to the spotlight and despite life's setbacks - his recent bout with an unknown calcified infection that plagued his eyeball, a nasty UTI, long covid, his fear of millennials, and having to tiptoe his comedy around foreign accents and...

A new stand-up special from comedy legend Brian Holtzman, live from the main room of the world famous Comedy Store....

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Fresh out of national law university, Bassi arrives in Delhi as a young lawyer with dreams, ambition and friends. All he needs is some perspective and a lot of money but timing and bosses keep getting in his way. He relates the story of his odyssey w...

Shot in New York City at the world famous Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground....

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Mike Epps keeps it real as he riffs on poor personal hygiene, failing at infidelity and waging war on work husbands in this stand-up comedy special....

Michael McIntyre, the comedy sensation of 2009, is back. Michael McIntyre’s meteoric rise to fame took the comedy world by storm last year. He sold out over 100 tour dates around the UK and his first DVD release Michael McIntyre Live & Laughing becam...

This one-of-a-kind comedy special showcases the comedian's riotous stand-up performance, exploring everything from the Disability experience to her Italian-Catholic upbringing to body image issues and more....

"Must Be Nice" is the latest comedy special from Owen Benjamin, filmed during the Beartaria Times National Festival. The "Must Be Nice" comedy special demonstrates what can be achieved when a group of like-minded people come together with a vision. W...

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Follow Peppermint as she invites you on an all-inclusive journey through New York City to get a first-hand look at what it’s like to be a single black transgender woman in today’s society. Peppermint invites you to cry and laugh with and at her as s...

Comedian Beth Stelling is aging in dog years, camping with a fake husband and monitoring her dad's raccoon army in this slyly laid-back stand-up special....

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From his thoughts on aggressively scented trash bags to desk jobs in hell, comedian Demetri Martin delivers a one-of-a-kind stand-up special....

Are you ready for a night of some gay jokes?! I hope you enjoy my full comedy special: Give Me One Good Reason Why I Shouldn’t Throw My Phone Off this Bridge. Filmed at the ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand....