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- A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
- A stand up show featuring acts from the club circuit, including Bernard Manning and Frank Carson. The show originally ran from 1971-1974, before being revived three times over the next two decades.
- A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
- One man's journey around the world to discover the secret of comedy.
- A veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show.
- A spin-off of a Chinese variety show of the same name, it involves a number of characters getting involved in a series of misadventures during a visit to Macau.
- A new comedy event series that will bring together 47 comedians from 13 regions around the world for the series. Each comedian will perform a half-hour stand-up.
- For his first return film in now National Socialist Germany, Pabst presented a historical tribute to the very first national theater troupe there,founded by a group of actors in the town of Weimar in the 18th century.
- Follow four comedians as they tour the States.
- Ed (Edward Hogg) is at a crossroads in his life. In his early thirties, his unrewarding job in a call centre is getting more and more frustrating, while his career as a stand-up is not taking off in the way he hoped it would; in fact, he's starting to acknowledge he might not be a very good comedian. His love life begins to look promising when he meets artist Nathan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), a gorgeous younger man who quickly develops a deep affection for Ed. Yet Ed's feelings are conflicted when he recognises he is drawn to his female flatmate Elisa (Elisa Lasowski).
- This was America's introduction to many great comics like the late Bob Saget, Yaakov Smirnoff, Rita Rudner, and so many others. But the star of this show was not host Rodney Dangefield, but an unknown stand-up comic called Sam Kinison, who did the greatest five minute set in stand-up history. Sorry this is unavailable, but I am glad I have a VHS recording of it that I dub to DVD for friends.
- Howie Mandel in Toronto, Steven Wright in Boston, Harry Anderson in Los Angeles, Richard Belzer in New York, and Robin Williams in San Fransisco (featured in the original "Young Comedian" TV specials) go back to where they started and showcase a new comedian.
- The comedian is a film about an aging comedic actor in the Indian film industry (Bollywood) who has no laughter left in his life.
- Animated TV special by Rankin/Bass depicting famous vaudeville acts such as Flip Wilson's Columbus, Jack Benny and George Burns' Maxwell, Groucho Marx's Napoleon, W. C. Fields' Sportsman and The Smothers Brothers' song to woo a princess.
- Tock, a 12 years old heir to a long line of comedians has a problem. He is not funny. Constantly upstage by his younger sister, he falls in love with a dermatologist who incidentally is the only one who finds him funny.
- Doug Stanhope has traveled the world and made himself a real comedian's comedian. Check him out with Brendon Walsh, Morgan Murphy, and Glenn Wool in this comedy special shot during Austin, TX's South by Southwest.
- Johnny Carson hosts a prime-time NBC variety hour.
- A stand up comedian struggling with the break up of his marriage and the passing of his daughter hits bottom and while he's down there experiences a brief and beautiful moment that gives him just enough to move forward.
- The story revolves around two struggling comics, Takashi Komoto (Keisuke Koide) and Yohei Tanaka (Atsushi Ito), who have been performing together as a manzai comedy duo called "Boso Swimmers" for the past 12 years with very little success. The pair rarely discuss their concerns for the future together, even though they're now 30 years old with little hope of making it big. Even so, they maintain their passion for comedy and start keeping an "exchange diary" as a way of communicating with each other more frankly.
- America's hottest young comics make their bids for stardom. Carl Reiner hosts an evening of hilarity with a pastiche of zany new breed comics in "On Location: The Fifth Annual Young Comedians Show". Videotaped before a live audience at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
- Showing two typical concert hall knock-about teams in a very poor performance. It ends up in their being egged by the audience. Very realistic and very funny.
- A deliciously fun story about a bigoted old school northern comic, Jimmy Cakes. Jimmy is the subject of a fly on the wall documentary, and comes face to face with his worst nightmare when he plays a gig in darkest London.
- Bob Hope showcases eight rising comedy stars and veterans Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller and Betty White guest star.
- An alcoholic, drug addicted Los Angeles comedian gives up on his career and his life after years of struggling. With no options left, he moves back home with his dad in Kentucky in an attempt to salvage what little life he has left.
- A brief look into the life of Suzy Haner, a comedian who gets her laughs through the form of hypnosis.
- A mix of stand-up routines and behind-the-scenes footage with comedians Zach Galifianakis, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt, and others.
- ShortStruggling comedian Lenny Brooks faces a mental crisis after his mother's death. Pressured by his boyfriend, he fails a personal act and has a public breakdown, ending with an overdose backstage, smiling.
- A want-to-be stand-up comedian uses comedy routines to spark a connection with a Chinese girl. They are surrounded by an empty, urban landscape, yet an intimacy grows.
- Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.
- Greg Giraldo, one of the most admired standup comedians of the 21st century, was known to many as a roast comedian. But before Greg became the most anticipated segment of every Comedy Central Roast, he was just a working-class kid from the Bronx, born to a Colombian father and a Spanish mother, trying to figure out his version of the American dream. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he gave up a promising law career to pursue his passion for standup comedy, in which he achieved enormous success. Amid battles with addiction and relational struggles, Greg ascended the heights of the comedy world and became one of the premier political commentating comedians of his time, even being one of the first comedians to defy the Bush Administration and perform 9/11-based standup material. A husband, father, friend, and powerhouse headliner until his untimely death in 2010, his posthumous legacy only grows as his taped specials, TV appearances and roasts are discovered by new generations of fans. This is his story.
- Documentary about the production behind The Comedians (1967), which was filmed in Benin (what was then called Dahomey).
- Freedom of Speech: Where are the limits? Who gets to say what? The N-word, Race, Bigotry, Power, Freedom, Denial, Pain...Healing. The day we arrived in LA to begin shooting this documentary, TV's Seinfeld star Michael Richards lost his cool to hecklers and retaliated with the 'N' word. In today's world of race-relations, immigration and entertainment, the ultimate question is: where is the line, and who can cross it? In the midst of heated debates over racial and ethnic identity, and with Obama in the presidential race, Americans consider the choice - to give up ethnic designations, or celebrate co-existing diversity. Caught in the cross-fire are millions of bi-racial and multiracial Americans. Competing against the mainstream on all counts, humorists and comedians provide meaningful insight into what really divides us. Exploring these questions exposes the very nature of where pain and laughter come from in a racially divided world. From the research of Dr. Darby LiPo Price, and multiracial comedian/Producer/Director Teja Arboleda, comes this fascinating discovery of comedy, from the perspective of multiracial/bi-racial comedians. This full-length documentary analyzes how mixed race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability by their very existence, multiracial comedians reveal that meanings of race vary across ethnic combination, gender, place, and time. The film features the experiences, perspectives, and performances of 14 American comedians of more than one racial ancestry.
- About a stand-up comedian whose wife is trying to kill him.
- Series of cameos by slapstick comic actor.