PickVidsBest Stand-up & sketch comedy Videos
The 244 Stand-up & sketch comedy videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 1 intermediate, 242 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a comedy piece. What they share is that the jokes rely on a shared background in this scene. Channels you will keep seeing include Saturday Night Live, BBC Studios, Comedy Central.
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
Tom7 (suckerpinch) builds and evaluates a series of absurd hard drives, including storage made from ping packets across the internet.
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting analyzes how Jackie Chan stages action comedy, with nine principles such as starting from a disadvantage, using the environment, clear shots, and keeping action and reaction in the same frame.
George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"
George Carlin's classic stand-up routine about 'stuff' and how much of life is spent accumulating and storing it, from Comic Relief 1986.
Captain Disillusion: World's Greatest Blenderer - Live at the Blender Conference 2018
Captain Disillusion's comedic talk at the 2018 Blender Conference recounts how he uses Blender as a production tool for his VFX-debunking web series.
Where in the world is it easiest to get rich? | Harald Eia | TEDxOslo
Sociologist and comedian Harald Eia argues in a TEDxOslo talk that Nordic social democracies produce more rich people per capita than the US or UK.
Patrick Stewart interview - Parkinson - BBC
Patrick Stewart on the BBC's Parkinson talk show talks humorously about going bald, how it affected his career and relationships, and how he came to accept it.
John Cleese vs Extremism
A two-minute John Cleese monologue showing the pathology of extremism, explaining why it feels good and how it drives out moderates.
It's Not About The Nail
A two-minute comedy sketch in which a woman describes her problems while a visible nail sticks out of her head, and her partner keeps trying to fix it instead of listening.
Talking Funny - HBO
An HBO special in which Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK discuss the craft of stand-up comedy.
George Carlin - Euphemisms
A George Carlin stand-up bit on euphemisms, tracing how language gets softened, such as shell shock becoming PTSD, until it loses its emotional force.
Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS
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Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium
The pilot of the British comedy series Look Around You, a deadpan parody of 1970s and 80s school science programmes, in which the scientists examine calcium.
The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
Super Eyepatch Wolf analyzes why The Simpsons declined after its golden age, pointing to changes in the writers' room and a shift in the style and complexity of its comedy.
Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy
A clip of Louis CK on Conan riffing that everything is amazing and nobody is happy, about people complaining over airplane wifi and taking modern technology for granted.
Jim Jefferies -- Gun Control (Part 1) from BARE -- Netflix Special
A clip from Jim Jefferies' Netflix special BARE in which he comedically dissects American gun culture and gun control arguments.
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
An Every Frame a Painting video essay analysing how Edgar Wright creates visual comedy through framing, camera movement, editing, sound effects and music.
James Mickens on JavaScript
James Mickens delivers his comedic rant about JavaScript and web programming, in his usual dry, hyperbolic style.
Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
A short clip from Bill Hicks' final special, Revelations, in which he describes life as just a ride.
youtube YouTube Stewart Lee 9 Political Correctness 41st Best Stand Up ever
A nine-minute Stewart Lee stand-up routine about political correctness and the claim that it has gone mad.
What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like
A Ryan George comedy sketch about the absurdities of shopping on Amazon, including nonsense brand names, fake reviews and scammy sellers.
Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory
Jon Stewart appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and discusses the pandemic, vaccine science and the Wuhan lab origin theory.
Pachelbel Rant from 2006 [Official High Quality Re-Post]
Comedian Rob Paravonian's 'Pachelbel Rant', a comedy bit showing that the chord progression of Pachelbel's Canon underlies countless pop songs.
Craig Ferguson Speaks From The Heart
A clip of Craig Ferguson's late-night monologue in which he talks about his past as an alcoholic.
Pachelbel Rant
Comedian and cellist Rob Paravonian rants about having to play Pachelbel's Canon in D, and shows how many pop songs reuse its chord progression.