A yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place during the last week of February at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater since February 21, 1960.
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.
Gotham Comedy Club, a popular comedy venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is the setting of an hourlong series that is shot in front of an audience at the club. Each episode features routines by several comics -- a list that has included such names as David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange -- in what the network says is an unedited and uncensored format. In addition to the big names of the field who take the Gotham stage, the show also features up-and-comers who want to make a name for themselves in the stand-up comedy business.
A nationwide talent search accepting the best professional and non-professional stand-up comedians. Once the selection process is narrowed to 10, the show covers the contestants as they live together and compete for an exclusive contract with NBC, and to be called the Last Comic Standing.
Une jeune scénariste égocentrique et une légende de la comédie sur le déclin doivent surmonter leurs différences pour sauver leur carrière.
À Québec, des humoristes de tous les horizons sont réunis sur scène pour une soirée inoubliable.
A Los Angeles, dans les années 70, Goldie gère un club de stand-up qui porte son nom. Au Goldie's, une foule de jeunes gens se succèdent sur scène, avec l'espoir de lancer leur carrière dans le monde de la comédie. Chaque soir, ils rivalisent de réparties et de bons mots pour faire rire le public.
The comic/folk duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci hit prime time with their act in this scripted series for IFC. It follows hard-working underdogs trying to make their mark in comedy while muddling through messy dating scenarios, and doing so by performing one satirical (and often quite saucy) song after another. Nothing stops the ukulele- and guitar-wielding twosome from singing about life's unspoken truths, despite it leaving them detached from their peers. The series is titled after Lindhome and Micucci's band name, inspired by "two famous rock 'n' roll second bananas," Art Garfunkel and John Oates.
The series features a host of Canadian Francophone comics. The result? Eight side-splitting comedy specials that showcase the richness and diversity of French-language humour from sea to sea!
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle is a comedy series created by Stewart Lee. The BBC Two series debuted on 16 March 2009, and featured stand-up routines filmed at The Mildmay Club in Newington Green, and sketches based on a weekly theme, featuring amongst others Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon and Paul Putner with voice-over parts recorded by Peter Serafinowicz. The series is produced by Richard Webb and directed by Tim Kirkby. The programme is executive-produced by Armando Iannucci and script-edited by Chris Morris, marking a rare reformation of their creative double-act.
These half-hour specials showcased some of the best up-and-coming comedians of the moment. The show was a pivotal stepping stone for many of today's stand-up stars.
A series of stand-up comedy specials.
Def Comedy Jam est une série télévisée HBO produite par Russell Simmons.
La série a eu sa première diffusion du 1er juillet 1992 au 1er janvier 1997. L'émission est revenue sur la programmation d'automne de HBO en 2006. Def Comedy Jam a aidé à lancer la carrière de plusieurs humoristes afro-américains.
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.
Dans un heureux mélange de vives discussions sur la famille et de comedy club, Charles Lafortune et ses invités s'amuseront à tracer un portrait de la famille québécoise d'hier à aujourd'hui.
Cette série met en scène la vie de Louie, un comique new yorkais fraîchement divorcé, père de deux fillettes.
L'originalité de la série réside dans le fait que les séquences illustrant la vie de Louie sont ponctuées d'extraits de ses spectacles de stand-up, à la manière de la sitcom Seinfeld. Il aborde des sujets dramatiques sous un angle comique, comme le divorce et le couple, le sexe et l'orientation sexuelle, la dépression, Dieu, etc.
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World.
Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995.
It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful, but not a major ratings-winner. The second series was aired on Friday nights, and although its ratings were relatively good, the show suffered from a lack of preparation and poor promotion. The show was not given a third series, and Lee and Herring went on to write This Morning with Richard Not Judy, for BBC Two.
Many other comedians who appeared in the series went on to fame themselves, including Kevin Eldon, Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Al Murray, John Thomson, Rebecca Front, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Ben Moor and Sally Phillips.
Get your stand-up fix from today’s freshest young comedians as Comedy Central introduces you to up-and-coming comics like Natasha Vaynblat, Petey DeAbreu, Ian Lara and Tom Thakkar, who are serving up quick hits of their sets.