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- The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
- Live late-night comedy sketch show similar to "Saturday Night Live."
- Contestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game.
- An offbeat look at current events, often by dubbing over news video with farcical commentary.
- Colin Quinn performs his one-man show about world history, which he originally presented on Broadway.
- Award-winning actor/comedian Ricky Gervais' first-ever HBO stand-up special features his unique takes on such disparate issues as fund-raising, autism, fame, nursery rhymes, Nazis, moronic friends, obesity and more.
- Stand-up comedian Ricky Gervais in his second HBO special.
- Jerry Seinfeld explains how the series was created.
- Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis C.K. let their guards down in an intimate, unscripted conversation about what it means to be a comedian.
- Politically incorrect Australian comedian Jim Jefferies performs.
- Comedian Dana Carvey performs an hour-long stand-up special taped before a live audience in Santa Rosa, California. He performs an all-new routine filled with off-kilter insights into society as well as impressions of well-known people.
- Bill Maher stars in his sixth HBO stand-up special, premiering LIVE from the Hudson Theater in New York!
- The ninth HBO stand-up comedy special by Bill Maher.
- In this documentary short, discover how Larry David and Jason Alexander epitomized one of television's most beloved character, George Costanza on Seinfeld.
- Comedian, writer and politically incorrect HBO talk-show host Bill Maher takes time off from his regular hosting duties to perform a hilariously scathing stand-up set in his eighth HBO stand-up special. Taped in Boston at the Berklee Performance Center, this special features Maher's acerbic takes on a wide range of social and political issues, including the follies and foibles perpetrated on America by President George W. Bush.
- Put the kids to bed and get ready to throw your inhibitions out the window as red-hot comedian/actor Tracy Morgan makes his HBO stand-up debut--a performance in which no subject, celebrity or situation will be off-limits.
- Some of the actors were presenters of clip segments concerning different aspects of soaps (super-couples, turning points, weddings/wedding dresses, character families, villains/suspense, genre history/background, bloopers, issues dramatized on soaps, etc.), while others were couples or friends of the past 'reunited' for the special. At times during the special, certain actors would be introduced from the audience (the primary audience members were made up of actors at large round dining tables, the far back contained soap fans) and they would introduce a clip of themselves that was meaningful or poignant for them. Soaps represented with clips and/or actors included: All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, The Bold & the Beautiful, Capitol, Dark Shadows, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, The Edge of Night, General Hospital, Guiding Light, Love of Life, Loving, One Life to Live, Ryan's Hope, Santa Barbara, Search for Tomorrow, and The Young and the Restless.
- Sketches include "Friday Edition", "Police Gynecologist" (Michael Nesmith/William Dear film), "Los Angeles School for Doormen," Kenny Loggins performs "Keep the Fire" and "This Is It."
- Sketches include:"Family Breaks the Fourth Wall," "Nauseating Spasms" (Tom Kramer film), and "Dick the Womanizer: Jeans Shopping". Graham Parker performs "Empty Lives" and "Stupefaction."
- The Jam performs "Start!" and "Private Hell."
- Sketches include "Bruce Mahler and Johann the Parakeet Play Violin," "Skunkman: The Bank Robbery," "Stranger Than Anything," and "Dick the Womanizer". The Boomtown Rats performs "Someone's Looking at You" and "I Don't Like Mondays."
- Sketches include "Solly Mullin: Temp. Secretary of State," and "Dr. Pain, The Sadistic Chiropractor." Warren Zevon performs "Gorilla, You're a Desperado" and "Johnny Strikes Up the Band."
- Boz Scaggs performs "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "JoJo."
- Sketches include "Johannes the Friday's Parakeet Needs Marijuana Seeds," "Bite the Bullet" (Tom Kramer short film), and "Western Saloon". Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform "Shadow of a Doubt" and "American Girl."
- Sketches include "Urban Monster" and "Friday Edition." Eddie Money performs "Running Back" and "Trinidad."
- Sketches include "The Ronny Horror Picture Show," "Nat E. Dred: The Rasta Gourmet," and" Steve Forbert performs "Romeo's Tune," and "Get Well Soon." NOTE: Reruns removed "The Ronny Horror Picture Show" due to the producer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show being against the parody.
- Sketches include "Popeye's Got a Brand New Bag," "Nat E. Dred: The Rasta Gourmet," "Friday Edition," "Draft Lottery Sweepstakes" (Tom Kramer film), and "Frieda Mueller, Art Agent." The Plasmatics performs "Living Dead" and "Butcher Baby."
- Sketches include "That Darn Reagan," "Drugs R' Us," "Friday Edition" and "Henny Youngman's Dressing Room". REO Speedwagon performs "Don't Let Him Go" and "Keep On Loving You"
- Sketches include "Dick: The Punk Barbershop." The Jim Carroll Band performs "People Who Died," "Day and Night," and "It's Too Late."
- Valerie Bertinelli (host). The Jim Carroll Band performs "People Who Died"" (and possibly "Wicked Gravity" and "Day and Night")
- This is known as the infamous fistfight episode because of a staged fight at the end of the program orchestrated by guest host Andy Kaufman.
- Sketches include "The Three Stooges: Atomic Bong." Kim Carnes performs "Cry Like a Baby" and "More Love."
- Sketches include "Battle Boy," "Drugs R' Us: Delivery Girl," and "Atrocity at the Retirement House" (Tom Kramer film). Sir Douglas Quintet performs.
- Billy Crystal hosts. Andy Kaufman appears in a videotaped apology.
- David Steinberg hosts. The Marshall Tucker Band performs "This Time I Believe" and one other song.
- Don Novello hosts, in character as Father Guido Sarducci. Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson, the singing duo "Dawn," appear with Sarducci. Jefferson Starship performs "Find Your Way Back" and "Jane."
- Sketches include "Close Encounters of the Third World," "Nat E. Dred: Rastafarian Chef," "Friday Edition", "Men Who Hug," and "The Teenage Years".
- Mark Hamill hosts. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band perform "Margaritaville" and and "Stars Fell on Alabama."
- George Hamilton hosts. Gary U.S. Bonds performs "This Little Girl," "Way Back When" and "Jole Blon."
- Sketches include "Friday Edition," "Battle Boy," "A Night in Tehran (The Marx Brothers in Iran)," "Drugs R Us," "A Cop with 'Roids," and "Chicken Puppets". The Cars performs "Touch and Go," "Shoo Be Doo" and "Gimme Some Slack."
- Sketches include "Skunkman," "Friday Edition," and "George Bargate: The Jehovah's Witnesses." Al Jarreau performs "Distracted" and "Spain (I Can Recall)."
- Sketches include "Lunatic In The Kitchen," "Friday Edition" (featuring "Film Review with Larry David" reviewing Private Benjamin), and "Midnite Sermonette with Pastor James Babbett." Split Enz performs "I Got You" and "I Hope I Never."