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- DirectorTim KirkbyStarsStewart LeeWhat can a middle-aged man possibly find to write comedy about? Join Mr Lee to find out how journeys to indistinct provincial theatres and roadside retail outlets can be quite inspirational...Splitting the audience
Osama Bin Laden
Anti-Islamic observational comedy
Scooby Doo and Thatcher
World of Golf
General Ratko Mladic
Internet criticism - DirectorTim KirkbyStarsStewart LeeNick PynnAfter hearing comedian Frankie Boyle say that all comedian over 40 should quit because they're not angry enough any more, 42-year-old Stewart Lee ponders youth, piracy, pears and the hatefulness of the Top Gear presenters.Mist hasn't worked - 'impromptu' coffee starter
Pirate's Adventure Castle Activity Centre
Caffè Nero loyalty card
Terry Christian's let himself go
Comedians over 40 lose their anger and focus
The queen's vagina - adult problems
Visible otters - improv phone call
I hate Top Gear
Napalm Death - Library monitor
Give it to me straight, like a pear cider made of 100% pears
Galway Girl - StarsJames AcasterStuart LawsNathaniel MetcalfeJames Acaster presents four interwoven stand-up comedy specials.1 - Starting on knees, loopholes, Pret a Manger banana, undercover cop dream, fondue day breakup, the cardboard box lids, reset the ice, podcast recording, pictures that you put your face in, my name is James Acaster
2 - The universe began, celebrity gossip, jury duty, SW6 gang, The Theory of Everything, night out pranks, massages, log flume hype man, the fable of the sloth and the goose, the christingle, how happy are you with your smile
3 - Fresh start, he or she, honey racket, witness protection, return the Elgin marbles, Brexit tea, spag bol, should have gone to Kenya
4 - Monologuing, bread research, pancake day, lollipopping, loch ness stories, twister, cheese grater, you are what you eat, wooden duck - DirectorDaniel LucchesiStarsJames AcasterJames Acaster performs at the Hackney Empire, discussing such topics such as brexit and mental health.I swear now - edgy challenging comedians
A second referendum - play (menu) - angry emails
Great British Bake-off - caffeine crash - calling girlfriend - Samaritans call - Meme in America - thirsty pauses
1999 - top of the tea - discmans - syncing periods
2017 - sliding door - can't escape Mr Bean - can't say Merry Christmas - audience banter is rude - keep Twitter light - Boris Johnson's joke
Agent story - pranking - getting dropped
Therapy rejection
Shitting myself - DirectorMichael CummingStarsStewart LeeAn extended version of sardonic Stewart Lee's acclaimed 2007 Edinburgh show, prompted by his ranking in a Channel 4 run-down.Tom O'Connor's sardines
Car Phone Warehouse
Russell Brand and Big Brother
Heckling kids
Developing insect show
WeightWatchers and Muslim lady
Political correctness gone mad
Prostitute naming and Richard Littlejohn
Giraffe on head - DirectorBo BurnhamStarsBo BurnhamA musical comedy special shot and performed by Bo Burnham, alone, over the course of a very unusual year.Healing the world with comedy
Facetiming with my mum
That's how the world works
B&W brand awareness parody
White woman's instagram
Unpaid intern - reaction
Jeffrey Bezos
Sexting
Thank you with a knife
Trying to be funny stuck in a room - takes
Times are changing
Turning 30
Don't kill yourself
Inside let's play
Are you feeling like shit?
Welcome to the internet
That funny feeling - meditation app
Get your hands up
Possible ending song - DirectorChristopher StorerStarsHasan MinhajIn his first stand-up special, Hasan Minhaj weaves humorous and heartbreaking anecdotes to tell his life story as an Indian-American Muslim. Topics include racism, bullying and meeting the demanding expectations of his immigrant parents.Just me and my dad
Conditional love - missing software
My secret sister - stealing her bike
What will people think?
The American Dream tax
My white princess
March madness prom
Love vs fear
Revenge lemonade
Hasan, be brave - DirectorSeth BarrishStarsMike BirbigliaComedian Mike Birbiglia hits Broadway with a hilarious yet profound one-man show that recounts his emotional and physical journey to parenthood.My wife and I on the couch
Genius nephew - I don't want kids
1. Don't want more of me in the world - not A+ genes
2. I saved your best friend's life
3. I'm not ready to teach children
4. I have a cat
5. I have a job
6. I don’t think there should be children anymore
7. People aren't great
Getting surgery
Craving pretzels
Toy drop
Sleeping in a straitjacket
Getting kicked off the couch
Through baby's eyes - DirectorCraig GriffithStarsStewart LeeLincolnshire's animal sounds
Joe Pasquale
7/7 soundbites - IRA vs Al Qaeda
Abu Ghraib - Team A vs Team F
Pope lollipops - last words - funeral vs royal wedding
Circle of blasphemous protection
Running away to small town Worcester
The reincarnation of Jesus - Vomiting into the open mouth of Christ
Seeing other comedians - DirectorSeth BarrishMike BirbigliaStarsMike BirbigliaMike Birbiglia tells stories about his life as a semi-famous comedian/filmmaker and reflects on the meaning of good or bad jokes.The Gotham Awards
Late vs early people
Good jokes: I'm joking
Getting arrested, woman cop
Brother changing hymn lyrics
Swearing at the Muppets, Fozzie
Plane nut allergy
Cat and mouse puns
David O Russell's rant
Joking with your neighbours, context - DirectorBo BurnhamChristopher StorerStarsBo BurnhamBo Burnham tackles life, death, sexuality, hypocrisy, mental illness and Pringles cans in his dazzling new stand-up special.Straight white male
I'm a little teapot (hip-hop remix)
Rob's song
Modern country music
Miming
The problematic Pringles can
Can't handle this (Yeezus)
Are you happy? - DirectorJon OlbMadeleine ParryStarsHannah GadsbyAustralian comic Hannah Gadsby reshapes standard stand-up by pairing punchlines with personal revelations on gender, sexuality and childhood turmoil.I'm from Tasmania
Where do the quiet gays go?
Not enough lesbian content
Quitting comedy
Sorry ma'am
Punchlines needs tension, tension feeds trauma
My art history degree
Hating men
Theo Van Gogh - DirectorPeter OrtonStarsStewart LeeAfter four years working on Richard Thomas' Jerry Springer - The Opera, Stewart Lee returns to stand-up in search of clarity, self-respect and immediate sensual and intellectual gratification. Captured here for Stewart's first ever live DVD release, Stand Up Comedian documents the strongest set of his career, culminating in a sell-out Spring 2005 tour.9/11 in Spain
Tea cosy working
Braveheart
Gary Linekar's crisps
Ang Lee
Princess Diana's inflatable E.T. - DirectorNeal BrennanStarsNeal BrennanNeal Brennan is taking multitasking to a whole new level in this stand up special, which features the comedian switching between three different microphones symbolizing three different styles of comedy.3. Internet, sports scandals, concealed carry, ISIS attack
2. Broken family, surges of adrenaline, antidepressant, ketamine, magnetic therapy, cucumber to pickle
3. Cool pope, slavery, cops, NBA marketing, mixed babies ending racism
2. I'm a lover, acting around celebrities, hiding behind Chapelle
3. Dating in your 20s, girls settling and exaggerating, men being creeps, testosterone, goldiggers, sex positions
2. My dad's past, the letter, his will, the truth
Descrambling brain to form jokes, cop cars - DirectorRhys ThomasStarsPetuniaJohn MulaneyAmanda WalshArmed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former SNL writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton.
I married my wife - why buy the cow?
Changing Catholic mass
Petunia the alpha
Our real estate agent
Snitching babies
Kids and their new rights
The new weed laws
Temp stories
The to-do list
Our Bill Clinton - DirectorAlex TimbersStarsJohn MulaneyJon BrionCarole ShelleyJohn Mulaney relays his childhood and Saturday Night Live (1975), eviscerates the value of college, and laments getting older in this comedy special. Other topics include the church, his family, President Trump and pedophiles abducting kids.
The Victorian girl ghost
My dad's debating
School assemblies - being street-smart
College donations
Donating to Goodwill
Getting gross
Everything was slower back then
The horse in the hospital
My wife and Petunia
The Catholic church - DirectorMadeleine ParryStarsHannah GadsbyHannah Gadsby ("Nanette") returns for her second stand-up special and shares her latest takes on popularity, identity, language, feminism and more.Setting the expectations
Observational comedy - culturally confident, petroleum, jumper, biscuit, ya'll, fanny
Pufferfish moments
Dog park small talk - smiling muscles, Pouch of Douglas, men naming things
Doctor hormonal - boys will be boys
TMNT
Golf is not a sport
Art lecture - renaissance, sainthood
Austism - anti-vaxxers, imagine a box
Louis CK - mic drop - DirectorSteven BrillNicholaus GoossenStarsAdam SandlerRob SchneiderDan BullaAdam Sandler takes his comical musical musings back out on the road, from comedy clubs to concert halls to one very unsuspecting subway station.My Tesla
Baby speaking gibberish
Doing a flip flop
We all know a guy
Bar Mitzvah boy
Bonding on a rollercoaster - $65 photo
Phone, wallet, keys
My friend Chris Farley - DirectorDerek DelGaudioStarsNeal BrennanFollows Neal Brennan as he talks about the emotional and cultural issues that make him feel like something's wrong with him in a humorous way, from drugs and alcohol, liberalism, to his small chances of finding real love.My pitbull Keith - dog-human relationships
Republicans versus Liberals - homseless shelter, Kanye
Gun debate
Weed, alcohol safety testing
Childhood rules
White privilege - city names, jokes, police
Never been married, trust, not gay, guys versus girls
Relationship training, marriage chances, isolation of COVID
Netflix comedian party, Pavlok shocks, self-therapy into self-harm
Shadow identity - DirectorPaul KingStarsBen WhishawHugh GrantHugh BonnevillePaddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.Josh Kingford - Midnight Porridge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vinmvOgs3BY
The Graham Norton Show
Ryan Gosling fantasy - attractive actors - Benedict Cumberbatch
Video game softie - roleplaying female astronaut
Uni midnight meals - Sam the Buddhist roommate
The gross bed - pirate pillow talk
Scraping mike - filling up the bath
Sound malfunction - Rory the guitar guy - Wonderwall
Modern Harry Potter
Uni music taste - indie song about arthritis
The man in the mirror - peeing in uni lecture - Cody the hiker - DirectorTim KirkbyStarsStewart LeeAlan MooreStewart Lee's 2017/18 touring stand-up show, recorded live at the Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea, in April 2018.Brexit vs Trump
The Wanderer painting - DirectorMarty SchousboeStarsJoe PeraVictor CompetielloFollow Joe Pera as he performs in his most recent special, the result of almost ten years of stand-up comedy and an entire year and a half on the road.Intro letter
Pita chips
Where our country went wrong
I'm the type of guy
My dating column
How I lost my virginity
Summer nights sleep - touch the ice - DirectorShannon HartmanStarsBo BurnhamThe internet (and soon to be movie, TV, radio, etc.) phenomenon, Bo Burnham, brings you his first one-hour stand-up special "Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words" from the House of Blues in Boston.
- DirectorRyan PolitoJake SzymanskiStarsJohn MulaneyAmy SchumerComedian John Mulaney talks about his milk toast boyish looks, his childhood, his Jewish girlfriend, his gayish charm, his favorite TV shows, Ice-T, a homeless person he met in N.Y., and a prostate exam with Batman.
Turning 29
Youth - Asian-american, high voice, gay
Censorship - midget, Law and Order, old school murder investigations
My girlfriend - everyday lawyer
Used to drink - teacher's party
Salad or fries
Homeless man - new in town
Trying to get a Xanax prescription - DirectorIsaac TaylorStarsJamie LoftusApology for leaked keynote clips
Free code
Digital NDA
3 updates
Develop and shell
Non-violet drones
Difficulty telling poor people apart
Sorry that you feel that way
Boss girl gang
Cancelled again
Immortality program