He only left one stand-up special, but it’s a doozy — an unforgettable half-hour installment of One Night Stand, concluding with his signature bit, the story of a disastrous trip to Disney World with “Be-be’s Kids.”, 128 min Star: Stars: | | | Bill Burr. | In addition, his 2015, 2016 and 2018 tours were the highest-grossing comedy tours of those years, according to Billboard. | Chloe Noelle. Whoopi Goldberg, In 1991, she was named the funniest female stand-up at the American Comedy Awards and she’d win arguably the … In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger - London, New York, Johannesburg, Mr. Miller Goes to Washington Starring Dennis Miller, Whoopi Goldberg: Fontaine... Why Am I Straight, Louie Anderson: Mom! A portrait of a ground-breaker, alive with the rawness of comic discovery. Eugene Mirman, When it’s done well and with inspiration and talent behind it, you feel like you’re in one big party together. | That kind of success can rarely be sustained but it’ll be exciting to see where he goes from here. TV-MA Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape. | When Sarah Silverman won an Emmy Award for her 2013 HBO special, “We Are Miracles,” it was just another achievement in a remarkable career in comedy. Stan Lathan Watching his stand-up is like reading a book — one of the funniest books. In her nine comedy albums and seven specials released since the late 1990s, Cho has been acclaimed for her explicit discussions of racial identity, sexuality and her complicated relationship with her mother, who is a Korean immigrant. Star: In between, he also plays his uptight, Christian conservative brother “Seth Galifianakis,” interviewed by former Daily Show correspondent Brian Unger. Chris Phillips, Marty Callner 60 min Documentary, Comedy, When George Carlin is asked which HBO concert is his favorite, his answer is always, "Jammin' In New York." It ended up being the best special of his tragically short career, an angry, jaded, blistering look at the nonsensical injustices of the world and the unaccountably stupid people who inhabit it. | The brilliance of Jeff Foxworthy was in finding a massive audience that had been all but ignored by mainstream comedians for decades. The results are fascinating — a sly commentary on the thin line separating life and art. 90 min But in his day, he was an inspired comic in the Bill Cosby mold: a gentle yet endlessly funny storyteller with a specialty in family-based, childhood-memory comedy. In this intimate, club-taped show, Martin juggles, plays his banjo, gets “happy feet,” and does much of the material from his Let’s Get Small album. | Billy Crystal, 81 min The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …. | | | A master of the one-liner with an absurd rambling style, Zach's sharp, resonating humor makes his show at the famed Purple Onion in San Francisco one of the funniest performances in recent comedy. David Lewis Colin Quinn performs his one-man show about world history, which he originally presented on Broadway. She opened a 2012 set by saying, “Hello, I have cancer.” She performed topless in 2015 to reveal her double mastectomy scars. In this brand-new comedy performance, he's more hilarious than ever with his unique style of self-deprecating observations and catty audience commentary. Not Rated TV-MA Rocco Urbisci In her first Comedy Central one-hour special, Kristen Schaal unleashes her wit upon San Francisco. His record of success is so stellar that he’s won the Grammy for best comedy album three times despite only releasing four records in his career thus far. Eddie Murphy, Directors: 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time From old-school nightclub veterans to alt-comedy legends, Patton Oswalt to Pryor, our picks for the greatest to ever grab a mic Damon Wayans Jr., Documentary, Comedy. Paula Poundstone, Albert Precourt. Comedy. | Of all those disciples of Richard Pryor that have come through in the past 40 years, Dave Chappelle has been the most consistent. It’s a smart and funny hour, covering topics from porn preferences and religion to rape jokes and her complicated relationship with the word “pussy.”, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion, Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend. Ellen Brown | Directors: | Star: It can easily be argued that Lenny Bruce was the architect of the modern stand-up comic, using his platform to critique society’s most sacred institutions — and using plenty of curse words while doing so.