Items Matching Tag 'Stand Up'

Margaret Cho - Beautiful (DVD Details)
Named ‘one of the funniest comedians in America’ (New York Times) and ‘an impressive radical voice’ (London Evening Standard), stand-up’s controversial diva Margaret Cho makes her UK DVD debut with the October 10th release of her concert film Beautiful. Known for her frank brand of humour, Cho delivers riotous yet thought-provoking material, exploring sexuality, equal rights, race, politics and...

Oh Please Yourselves... Frankie Howerd at ITV (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
At the time of his death in 1992, Frankie Howerd was firmly established as a national comedy treasure, his risque jokes, double entendres and meandering anecdotes having enlivened television schedules over nearly four decades. Some of his most successful shows were produced for ITV, and this set presents six shows transmitted on the network between 1973 and 1991 which reflect an ever-broadening...

Doug Stanhope - Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere (DVD Details)
Controversial US comedian Doug Stanhope performs a live set in an abandoned factory.

An Audience With Jasper Carrott: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Comedian, actor, folk singer and TV presenter Jasper Carrott first came to national attention in 1975 with his Top Five hit Funky Moped/Magic Roundabout. Thirty-six years on, he remains one of Britain’s best-loved comic performers. His many awards include a BAFTA (for Carrott’s Lib) and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 British Comedy Awards; he has twice been voted TV Personality of the...

John Bishop Live (DVD Details)
Since giving up the nine-to-five grind John Bishop has been spending lots of time at home hoping that things will happen and that they’ll turn out to be funny. Luckily the antics of his teenage sons have proven to be a relentless source of comic inspiration. The result is a must-have DVD packed with hilarious analysis of their blasé attitude to his chosen career, the changes that occur once your...

Frankie Boyle: If I Could Reach Out Through Your TV and Strangle You I Would (DVD Details)
Famous for his straight-talking, no-holds-barred stand-up, critically acclaimed comedian Frankie Boyle brings us his highly anticipated second live DVD. Recorded at London's Hammersmith Apollo, during his sell-out 2010 tour, Frankie comes armed with an impressive arsenal of punchlines and putdowns which are too controversial for TV.

Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh (DVD Details)
Sharp-suited dead-pan funnyman Jimmy Carr returns with another live stand-up release. The award-winning comic unleashes his rapid-fire wit with over 250 jokes, featuring material too rude for television that will have you gasping and guffawing in equal measure.

Billy Connolly: Live in London 2010 (Blu-ray Details)
Finally, the wait is over. Billy Connolly, the King of Comedy, returns in his first brand new stand up DVD for three years. As funny, topical and downright brilliant as ever, Billy Connolly: Live In London 2010 is the master at his best. From raging about Britain's political elite to reporting about the oddities of America, Live In London 2010 takes the audience on a hilarious series of...

Lee Mack : Going Out (DVD Details)
BAFTA winner  LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S multi-award winning primetime Friday night sitcom Not Going Out, and resident team captain on Would I Lie to You?, brings his critically-acclaimed stand-up tour Going Out to DVD. Recorded live in May 2010 at the Hammersmith Apollo during his twice-extended sell-out national tour, the DVD presents the quick-fire banter and non-stop gags of Lee’...

Ricky Gervais: Live IV: Science (DVD Details)
Never afraid to challenge comedy boundaries, Ricky is renowned for his acerbic observational humour and cutting delivery. Set on a stage designed to look like Frankenstein’s castle laboratory, this show brings together thought provoking rants and tongue in cheek political incorrectness about subjects as diverse as religion, racism and obesity.

Jim Jefferies: Alcoholocaust (DVD Details)
Alcoholocaust was recorded in July 2010 at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London and features a live and uncut performance which sees Jim in stunning 'booze-fuelled' form in front of an ecstatic sell-out West End audience.

Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley! (DVD Details)
Master of mirth Michael McIntyre is the man of the moment, and you'll be hard pressed to find bigger belly laughs than on his new live DVD, Hello Wembley. McIntyre shows just why he's the UK's latest comedy sensation, storming through a 90-minute performance of brilliant brand new material. Michael McIntyre, the comedy sensation of 2009 is back and set to release his second DVD this autumn....

Ross Noble: Nobleism (DVD Details)
Filmed live on stage at the Empire Theatre Liverpool, and the first ever stand up to be broadcast live to cinemas across Britain, this is Nobleism, the fifth DVD from the award winning comedian Ross Noble. This is your chance to own a record of a unique live experience along with a bonus disc packed full of hours of extras.

Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie (DVD Details)
Since his Perrier Newcomer-nominated debut show - ‘Rhod Gilbert’s 1984’, Rhod has been haunted by critics describing him as a ‘serial fantasist of ex-prime ministerial proportions’. So Rhod decided to abandon his fictional tales of Llanbobl, and try living in the real world for once in ‘Rhod Gilbert and the Award-Winning Mince Pie’, for which he received a nomination for the highly coveted if.comed...

Russell Howard : Dingledodies (DVD Details)
Aged just 19 Russell plotted himself on the comedy map by getting to the final of Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny? competition in only his fifth ever gig. Since then, things have been pretty hectic... Russell has been busy cementing his place as one of the hottest properties in comedy with his BBC6 Music show every Sunday, loads of Mock The Week and Never Mind The Buzzcocks on BBC2, Would...

As It Occurs To Me (Event Details)
A new weekly internet stand up and sketch show written and performed by the star of BBC2’s Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ, Radio 2’s That Was Then This Is Now and stand up shows including Talking Cock, Someone Likes Yoghurt, The Headmaster’s Son and Hitler Moustache. All material generated that week from topical events and what’s been going on in Richard’s ridiculous life. Untested and Uncensored....

Richard Herring : Menage a Un (DVD Details)
ménage à un sees Herring consolidate his position as one of the UK’s most uncompromising and innovative stand-ups in a show which deals with loneliness, only-ness and Onanism, and attempts to determine whether three-in-a-bed sex romps are really better than one-in-a-bed sex romps. Along the way he reveals why Olivio is the most dangerous spread for the confirmed bachelor, claims that we can...

Russell Peters: Red, White And Brown (DVD Details)
Recorded live before a sold-out audience at The WAMU Theatre Madison Square Garden on February 2nd 2008. Russell Peters delivers material from his record breaking Homecoming Tour, with tales of his travels to India and Dubai, as well as his own issues with body hair, the World Cup and yet another take on Cheap Indians. The DVD version is 20 minutes longer than the broadcast version.

Robin Ince : Is as Dumb as You (DVD Details)
'This show was recorded in the midst of a weeklong bout of insomnia. If you hear any poor sentence structure, this is due to part of my brain keeping me awake as some sort of neurological joke.' Essentially a breakdown show then. We've got an excellent thing here - our first ever commentary track. And Robin has made comments about every part of the disc. He goes on for hours.

Lucy Porter : The Good Life (DVD Details)
Lucy Porter brings you The Good Life. No, it's not a paean to the 70s sitcom -although Porter's boundless energy has led to comparisons with a young Felicity Kendal – instead it's the diminutive comic's musings on ethical living. Covering everything from vegetarianism to chess, Lucy celebrates all that is good in the world (Kim Wilde, baby elephants) and takes a gentle poke at the not-so-good (Supe...

Richard Herring : Oh F*ck I'm 40 (DVD Details)
This is a recording of the show made in March 2008, when Rich was coming to the end of his 40th year. And much like an old man's belly, this release is our most bloated to date. So bloated in fact that we need another disc to fit everything on. So, as well as the usual extras like an interview and photo slide show, there's a specially shot documentary retracing Rich's infamous night in...

Richard Herring : Someone Likes Yoghurt (DVD Details)
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.

Bill Bailey: Tinselworm (DVD Details)
From the imagination of Bill Bailey, experience tinselworm - A visually stunning comedy and music extravaganza. Filmed at Wembley Arena at the end of a sell-out tour of the UK, it's everything you'd expect from Bill and more. Using huge screens, films and animation by award-winning film-maker Joe Magee, plus Bill's trademark musical inventiveness and verbal brilliance, this is quite simply the...

Sean Lock Live (DVD Details)
Sean Lock has been performing stand up comedy for over fifteen years to packed houses across the UK – this is his long awaited, first ever live DVD. Following a national UK tour earlier in the year, this sell out show was filmed live at the London Hammersmith Apollo. With his dry wit and absurd observations, he plasters his audience with a mind movie of epic proportions. His stand up is the...

Jim Jeffries : Contraband Live (DVD Details)
Last year’s critically acclaimed show ‘30’ sold out every night at the Edinburgh Festival and his UK and US tours. From those tours, Jeffries, the controversial Aussie stand-up, brings you his debut DVD, Contraband Live. Succeeding with jokes that most comedians wouldn't touch, and an ability to both charm and offend the crowd in equal measure, Jim is regarded as one of comedy’s fastest rising...

Tim Minchin: So F**king Rock (DVD Details)
The superstar musician, comedian, writer and actor, Tim Minchin, toured the smash hit show So F**king Rock, to packed houses across the UK, culminating in a six week, off Broadway run in New York. This hugely entertaining two hour show which is a razor-sharp combination of his luminous, sell-out stage show ‘Dark Side’ – which won the Festival Directors’ Award at Melbourne’s International Comedy...

Dara O'Briain Talks Funny: Live In London - 2008 (DVD Details)
Dara O Briain Talks Funny: Live in London is the culmination of Dara's massive 2008 sell out tour of the UK and Ireland. Recorded at the world-famous Hammersmith Apollo before 3,300 fans, this is Dara at his best, mixing top draw material with lightning fast improvisation to give his audience yet another hilarious night to remember.

So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now! Brendon Burns Live (DVD Details)
So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now!' is the show that won Brendon Burns the coveted if.comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007. After a series of sold-out runs at the festival, this was the one that everyone was talking about. Controversial, shocking and explosive, the Aussie shouts and rants against particular age-long stereotypes and gains a whole new army of devoted fans. Brendon’s...

Michael McIntyre: Live And Laughing (DVD Details)
Acclaimed stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre delivers a hilarious performance to a receptive crowd at London's Hammersmith Apollo.