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George Carlin: Back in Town(1996)

3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words.

Michelle Wolf: Joke Show(2019)

59min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Comedian Michelle Wolf takes on outrage culture, massages, childbirth, feminism and much more (like otters) in a stand-up special from New York City.

Bill Hicks: Relentless(1992)

1h 1min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 29 votes)

Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music.

Bill Maher: But I'm Not Wrong(2010)

1h 19min | Comedy, Documentary
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

In front of a live audience at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Emmy-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy. Among the topics Bill discusses in his ninth HBO solo special are: Whether the "Great Recession" is really over; the fake patriotism of the right wing; what goes on in the mind of a terrorist; why Obama needs a posse instead of the secret service; the drug war; Michael Jackson; getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan; racism; the Teabagger movement; religion; the health-care fight; why Gov. Mark Sanford will come out looking good, and how silly it is to ask "Why do men cheat?"; and why comedy most definitely didn't die when George Bush left office.

Dogging: A Love Story(2009)

1.9/5 (with 5 votes)

An aspiring Gordie journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's North East outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens.

Directed by Simon Ellis - With Luke Treadaway

Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour(1998)

30min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Dave gets his own HBO special, filmed in San Francisco.

Randy Writes a Novel(2019)

1h 10min | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Randy Feltface teams up with a typewriter in this hilarious hour of spoken word and gratuitous arm movements.

Peter Kay: Live at the Top of the Tower(2000)

1h 10min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Peter Kay's hilarious stand up show. This is a live recording of his show in Blackpool which is one of the fastest selling comedy titles ever. Filmed in front of a packed, partisan crowd, Live At The Top Of The Tower is the freshest most hilarious stand up show from the country's funniest new comedian.

Michael McIntyre: Live & Laughing(2008)

1h 24min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Acclaimed stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre delivers a hilarious performance to a receptive crowd at London's Hammersmith Apollo.

Adam Hills - Inflatable(2011)

1h 13min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

"Inflatable" is a raucous, poignant and ultimately uplifting show that received five star reviews from Melbourne to Edinburgh, and played to sold out audiences across the UK. Adam discusses the intricacies of sign language, the politeness of the Dutch, prostate awareness, what it feels like to have an "old man rant" and the joy of seeing the Paralympics live. Of course, no Adam Hills show is complete without including members of the audience, so you'll also see an impromptu boyband, a sex toy goody bag and much more. Let Adam Hills inflate you with this riotous live show. Joyous. Uplifting. Inflatable.

De udvalgte(2009)

2h | Comedy
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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A Man Like Me(2002)

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.

Directed by Róbert Ingi Douglas - With Jón Gnarr
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Christopher Titus: Amerigeddon(2019)

1h 40min | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

2018, what the hell is going on? Hawaii just got an incoming nuclear missile threat and because of our new leader, people believed it. We have lost our way as a country. The world thinks we’re a joke and there’s a joke in the most powerful position in the world. I would give my yakuza pinkie right now for Mitt Romney. All that being said the new show is a killer balance between right and left. Thoughtful conservatives and my Grandma are starting to realize that we made a mistake. AMERIGEDDON is bringing the country together one drunk audience at a time. It’s for all of us because it takes one side, The side of America. Don’t worry about anything people! It’ll be okay, we will survive, or live in a post apocalyptic gasoline fueled thrill ride where tribes fight each other over who should lead...just like now, except we’ll all have Mohawks.

Lewis Black: Tragically, I Need You(2023)

1h 1min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

With Tragically, I Need You, Lewis Black brings his inimitable insights to the post-Pandemic state of the world. Picking up where he left off with the Grammy-nominated Thanks For Risking Your Life. This time Lewis has the view of someone who spent entirely too much time in isolation during the Pandemic, where the irksome details of life drew his acute attention. As the world shut down in the spring of 2020, Lewis went on a quarantine-tinged journey of self-discovery which led him to many personal revelations, including that he is old, that solitary confinement is a punishment, and that all recipes are made for a happy family of four, and most importantly, never look directly in a cat’s eyes.

Joe Lycett: More, More, More! How Do You Lycett? How Do You Lycett?(2022)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Join Joe Lycett (the artist formerly known as Hugo Boss) doing what he does best: talking at a room of people in a queer and comedic fashion. His first tour in years promises to be packed with MORE jokes, MORE comedy anecdotes and MORE inappropriate and arguably disturbing paintings, all in the hope of answering the age-old question: How do you Lycett? How do you Lycett?

Peter Kay: The Tour That Didn't Tour Tour(2011)

1h 23min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

He’s back! One of Britain’s best loved comedians finally brings his record breaking Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour to DVD. With his first live tour in seven years, playing to over one million people, this hilarious NEW show, sees Peter back on nights, doing what he does best, live stand-up comedy.

Rahul Subramanian: Kal Main Udega(2018)

1h 3min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Rahul Subramanian's stand up comedy solo 'Kal Main Udega' is filled with unrelated topics, no transitions, inconsequential takes on consequential subjects and also a bit of mildly bad dancing.

Ross Noble: The Headspace Cowboy(2011)

PG-13
| 2h 18min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ross Noble, Northumberland's number one stand-up, performs more surreal flights of fantasy in his 2011 live shows. However, there is a quirk to 'Headspace Cowboy': there's no one central show on offer. Rather, you have a 'bumper selection pack' of equal size chunks, from different gigs, each one lasting about 40-50 minutes.

Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian(2004)

R
| 3h 30min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Since Bill died in 1993, his work has reached a new audience and he has become a powerful cult figure. The DVD captures Bill at his very best, with three of his legendary filmed performances: "One Night Stand" - the Old Vic Theatre in Chicago (30 min) "Revelations" - the Dominion Theatre in London (65 min) "Relentless" - Bill’s breakout performance at the Montreal Comedy Festival (70 min)

Gary Gulman: It's About Time(2016)

53min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Netflix presents standup and two-time Last Comic Standing finalist Gary Gulman. Titled It’s About Time, the tour marks Gulman’s 20th year in comedy and stops at the Bowery Ballroom in New York.

Richard Herring: Someone Likes Yoghurt(2005)

1h 54min | Comedy, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In his excellent Someone Likes Yoghurt, Herrring shares with us his world of gonorrhoea-transmiting magpies, his attempts to become successor to Pope John Paul II, and his local supermarket's utterly humiliating new checkout service: the grocery interrogation.

Emily Heller: Ice Thickeners(2019)

1h | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The comic and writer for HBO’s Barry compares Donald Trump to Air Bud, answers some FAQs about vegetarianism, and recalls telling her personal trainer about her lack of fitness goals.

Paul Mooney: Know Your History - Jesus Is Black... So Was Cleopatra(2007)

1h 26min | Comedy, Documentary
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Few comedians can stir up controversy like the legendary Paul Mooney -- writer for Richard Pryor, creator of In Living Color's Homey the Clown and featured guest on Chappelle's Show. With his characteristic brutal honesty, Mooney passionately and hysterically charges into the electrified currents of racial tension. In this magnificent standup performance at Hollywood's Laugh Factory, Mooney earns a standing ovation with his relentless no-holds-barred observations on black history, stereotypes and prejudices, living in White America, celebrity divas and much, much more!

Dave Attell - HBO Comedy Half-Hour(1996)

27min | Comedy
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Dave Attell brings us more of his good old stand-up jokes about cow sex and trash trucks in this half-hour comedy special.