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.
Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Buster Keaton's visual comedy, examining how he built and framed his gags.
Principles of economics, translated
Economist-comedian Yoram Bauman delivers a humorous translation of Mankiw's ten principles of economics for the uninitiated.
4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
A comedy-music medley from the Australian band The Axis of Awesome showing that dozens of famous pop songs use the same four-chord progression.
Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco
Conan O'Brien interviews Jack White in a Serious Jibber-Jabber episode shot on 35mm film.
Beats That Defy Boxes | Reggie Watts | TED
Reggie Watts performs at TED 2012, blending vocal looping, beatboxing, poetry and comedy across musical genres in a larger-than-life improvised set.
PAUL TAYLOR - #FRANGLAIS - FULL SHOW
Paul Taylor's first stand-up special, recorded in Paris in 2018, in which a British comedian living in France riffs on French culture, language and bureaucracy.
Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance
A full-length recording of Tom Lehrer's 1967 concert in Copenhagen, mixing his satirical songs with spoken comedy between numbers.
Louis CK honors George Carlin
Louis CK speaks at a 2010 NYPL tribute to George Carlin about how Carlin's habit of discarding material and writing a new hour each year changed his own career.
Don't Buy Stuff - Saturday Night Live
A 2006 Saturday Night Live fake infomercial with Steve Martin and Amy Poehler selling the sure-fire way out of debt: don't buy stuff.
They're Made Out Of Meat
A 2004 short film adaptation of Terry Bisson's story "They're Made Out of Meat", in which aliens discuss the astonishing discovery of meat-based intelligent life.
George Carlin - Germs, Immune System
A clip from George Carlin's "You Are All Diseased" special in which he riffs on germs, the immune system and white blood cells.
Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) - Reverse Racism
Aamer Rahman of Fear of a Brown Planet delivers a stand-up routine on so-called reverse racism, arguing about power imbalance and why criticism of a dominant group is not equivalent to racism.
Norm Macdonald on Germany
Norm Macdonald's 2015 appearance on Letterman's final Late Show, delivering a deadpan bit about Germany and its military history.
Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
Australian comedy group Axis of Awesome perform a sketch showing that dozens of pop hits share the same four chords.
What Happens When Maths Goes Wrong? - with Matt Parker
Matt Parker's Royal Institution talk based on his book Humble Pi, covering everyday mathematical mistakes and spurious patterns that went wrong in engineering and software.
George Carlin - Saving the Planet
George Carlin's stand-up routine arguing the planet will be fine and it is people who are in trouble.
Stephen Fry on American vs British Comedy
A short clip of Stephen Fry explaining the differences between American and British comedy.
Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
A clip of Louis C.K.'s bit "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy," about how quickly people take modern technology for granted and complain about it.
Passion | David Mitchell's SoapBox
David Mitchell's Soapbox rant on employers who demand passion and enthusiasm from workers, using satire to skewer fake workplace passion.
The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
A five-minute TED talk by Rob Reid, who introduces Copyright Math, applying entertainment-industry piracy loss claims to produce absurd totals such as an $8 billion iPod.
MAKRO | XLOOKUP: META BREAKER? | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 10/19
KRAZAM parody sketch in which an Excel streamer, Makro, treats the XLOOKUP function as a game-breaking meta change, spoofing e-sports commentary.
How To Run A Hospital | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
A short Yes Minister clip in which Sir Humphrey explains why a hospital with no patients still needs a large administrative staff.
Prejudice by Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin performs Prejudice, a comedic song about the power of words and the language used to abuse and demean.
Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
Matt Parker's stand-up routine about spreadsheets, taken from the Festival of the Spoken Nerd DVD Full Frontal Nerdity.