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.
How English sounds to non-English speakers
'Skwerl' is a short film by Brian and Karl made entirely in fake English, imitating how English sounds to people who don't speak it.
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
The Monty Python sketch in which four wealthy Yorkshiremen try to outdo each other with exaggerated tales of childhood poverty.
Amazon Echo - SNL
A Saturday Night Live sketch for the Amazon Echo Silver, a smart speaker for the elderly, in which older users misunderstand Alexa.
Ian Hislop on Capital Punishment
A BBC Question Time clip in which Ian Hislop argues against capital punishment, rebutting the deterrence argument.
Comic Database: Steve Hughes... Offended?
Comedian Steve Hughes delivers a stand-up bit on political correctness, offense and health and safety culture, arguing there is no right not to be offended.
Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.
My blackberry is not working - BBC
A BBC comedy sketch from The One Ronnie starring Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield, built around a word-play misunderstanding about a broken BlackBerry.
The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside
The Rubberbandits perform "Horse Outside", a comic Irish song about a horse waiting outside, from the RTE show Republic of Telly.
Key & Peele - Text Message Confusion - Uncensored
A Key & Peele sketch in which two friends keep misreading the tone of each other's text messages while making plans.
Argument - Monty Python
The classic Monty Python 'Argument Clinic' sketch, lightly trimmed, in which a man pays for an argument and gets contradiction instead.
Zizek on toilets
Slavoj Zizek speaks at an architecture congress in Pamplona about how toilet design in France, England and Germany reflects national ideology.
QI | No Such Thing As A Fish
A short clip from the British panel show QI in which the panel discusses why there is no such thing as a fish as a biological category.
Stewart Lee - Political Correctness
A stand-up routine by Stewart Lee on political correctness, offering a satirical defense of inclusive language.
Community - Lego
A short clip from the NBC sitcom Community in which a character delivers a monologue about how LEGO changed over the years.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - The "Implication"
A two-minute scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in which Mac and Dennis discuss the unspoken implication of going out on a boat.
.: - Little Britain - Computer says no - :.
A Little Britain sketch featuring the 'Computer says no' catchphrase, in which a clerk refuses requests by deferring to her computer.
The Story Of Festivus | Seinfeld
An official Seinfeld clip explaining the origin of Festivus, the holiday from the show.
Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy: New Tech Guy - Saturday Night Live
An SNL sketch in which Nick Burns, the condescending IT guy, trains a new tech support hire to mock users over simple computer problems.
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
The classic Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch from Live at the Hollywood Bowl, in which four men try to outdo each other with exaggerated tales of childhood hardship.
The Big Hit (1998) The Trace Buster Buster Buster
A clip from the 1998 film The Big Hit featuring the 'trace buster buster buster' scene, where characters try to defeat a phone trace.
Space Force - NetFlix - John Malkovich - Dr. Adrian Mallard - "Fuck Microsoft"
A short clip from the Netflix series Space Force in which John Malkovich's character delivers a profanity-laden rant about Microsoft.
Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off
A classic Clarke and Dawe sketch from 1991 in which an Australian senator evasively discusses an oil spill, famously saying the front fell off.
before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby
A one-minute ProZD comedy sketch about how a person's enthusiasm for a hobby changes after they discover its subreddit.
The Count Censored (ORIGINAL)
A mashup of a Sesame Street Count clip with a Lemon Demon song, where the swear words are censored in absurd ways.