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Phunny Business

For a decade, Chicago's ALL JOKES ASIDE was one of the preeminent comedy clubs in the country and gave early exposure and early paychecks to many of the nations most important young comedians including: Steve Harvey, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, MoNique, Dave Chappelle, Cedric The Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Mike Epps, Aries Spears, Adele Givens, Carlos Mencia, Bill Bellamy, Deon Cole, JB Smoove, and Bernie Mac to name a few. The rise and fall of All Jokes Aside and salutes the legendary showcase for it's major contribution to comedy history.

John Waters: This Filthy World

Philosopher of filth and reigning king of bad taste, John Waters presents an outstanding live one-man show that celebrates his origins of trash with his signature brand of irreverent humor. Filmed live in New York, this devilishly delectable monologue focuses on Waters’s early introductions to the grotesque that influenced the groundbreaking filmmaker and author, continually magnifying his twisted contributions of creativity.

Ali G Bling Bling

Ali G Bling Bling: For the first time on an Ali G video, this 70 minute programme will include a number of brand new interviews especially shot for video and never shown on television. Meeting unsuspecting celebrities with no idea who he is, these interviews are as unforgettably hilarious as the classic original 11 o 'clock interviews featured in the first Ali G smash-hit release. Also featured will be other favourite USA moments never previously released on video. Included is a remarkable interview with Vice President Alexander Haig, Ali's stunning encounter with "real life" ER surgeons, and his unique on-location guide to gang warfare in South Central L.A.

My Mum Talks to Aliens

A light-hearted yet moving documentary about a “man of science” trying to come to terms with the fact that his mother firmly believes that aliens routinely abduct fellow humans. The debate about whether we are alone in the universe has never gotten so personal. Mary Rodwell is Australia’s leading authority on extraterrestrial phenomena, her son Chris Rodwell is a vet, a man of science and self-confessed alien skeptic – their relationship has reached a critical point and something has to give. Mary’s beliefs led to the breakdown of her marriage and left a teenage Chris with some emotional scars, so the topic comes with baggage. Packing nothing but an open mind, Chris has agreed to enter Mary’s world via a road trip traversing Australia in order for her to attempt to convince him that the truth really is “out there” and that aliens exist, or she must never discuss the subject with him again.

An Idiot Abroad -Season 2

An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by and featuring Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel and so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they themselves stay in London and monitor his progress. In this second series, Karl performes activities from his "bucket list". Pilkington agreed to do a second series on the condition that he was to choose what he would do and that he got to use proper toilets. To keep the series interesting, Ricky and Stephen went behind Karl's back and arranged surprises for him to make him hate it even more than the first. He ends up visiting more places than he did in the first series, suffering through a number of detours. When asked why he had returned for a second series aft...

An Idiot Abroad - Season 1

An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by and featuring Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel and so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they themselves stay in London and monitor his progress. An Idiot Abroad documents Karl Pilkington's journeys to foreign countries under the guise of visiting the New Seven Wonders of the World. Though the New Seven Wonders of the World include the Colosseum in Rome, this is not one of Pilkington's destinations because Ricky and Stephen thought that he might feel too comfortable in Rome; instead he visits the Great Pyramids in Egypt (which is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to remain intact). Despite the stated focus of visiting the wonders, most of each...

Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks

He called himself the dark poet, a rock and roll comic out to shatter America's fundamental beliefs about entertainment, religion, sex, business, and politics. The New Yorker Magazine called him a renegade comic genius and a class all his own.

Super Size Me Super Size Me

While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.

S&M: Short and Male

S&M: short and Male , explores the relationship between height, self-esteem and success. We'll meet a child on growth hormones, a short comedian who can't get a date. We'll also hear from "height activists"-- from New York to Beijing, this new breed aims to sensitize the world to the discrimination short men are up against.

Michael Palin - Himalaya

This 2004 BBC television series records comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin's six-month trip across the Himalaya mountain range, covering an amazingly diverse range of cultures and environments in various countries. It includes 1° North by Northwest - Pakistan's tribal province, featuring Khyber Pass, Peshawar, Gilgit, Chitral and K2; 2° A Passage to India - Lahore (still in Muslim Pakistan), and in its mainly Hindu rival India: Amritsar, Shimla, Dharamsala (meeting with the Dalai Lama) and Srinagar; 3°Annapurna to Everest - Nepal (the capital Kathmandu, meeting with King Gyanendra, and Annapurna Mountain; includes a scare involving the Maoist rebels in the Gurkha recruiting area) and Tibet (administered as a Chinese province: Pokhara and the Everest base camp on the northern side). 4° The Roof of the World - Tibet's capital Lhasa and in China's Qinghai province Yushu. 5° Leaping Tiger, Naked Nagas - from China's Yunnan province to India's Nagaland state...

Katt Williams 9 Lives

Katt Williams 9 Lives: Featuring the hottest and funniest comedian to blaze into the 21st Century, Katt Williams: 9 Lives features never-before-seen stand-up from Katt s early career as well as a behind-the-scenes glance at his meteoric rise to fame and fortune.

The Last Laugh

A Chicago improviser talks about the real struggles of being a performer and what it means to sacrifice to try to break into the comedy business.

Comedy is Hard

This documentary begins in a stand up comedy class at the Hollywood Improv back in 1997 when Budd Friedman still owned it and Don Byner was manager, taught by Mike Parnon. It continues into Geno Kalmes's ups and downs on stage. Featuring the early days of Frank Caliendo and Hal Sparks.

Cowards Come Home (The Newport Feud of 1865)

This is a cross between a documentary, a western and a black comedy, as it tells the story of an actual ghost town on the Wisconsin river... however the underlying theme is the telling of history...when history is subject to point of view, lies, myth, exaggeration, manipulation, and multiple perspectives often hidden with secret agendas...In other words a parable for any country or town on this spinning rock called earth.

Girt By Beards

The World Beard and Mustache Championships is a bi-annual event that was established in 1990. Competitors from around the globe compete in what has been dubbed the Olympics of professional beard growing. The Beards are a South Australian band that exclusively write and perform songs about the importance of having a beard.

Bizarre Crime - Full Season

BBC Bizarre Crime, shows the most brazing outrageous crimes in the UK. This light hearted series, tries to understand what goes on the minds of offenders.Crime does not pay!

Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain

Funnyman Kevin Hart is BACK and starring in the theatrical version of his 2011 LAUGH AT MY PAIN comedy tour that swept the nation and earned more than $15,000,000 in ticket sales! The 90-city LAUGH AT MY PAIN tour is one of the most successful Comedy Concerts in history. Hart's 2-day performance of LAUGH AT MY PAIN (at LA Live's Nokia Theatre), raised the bar and broke Eddie Murphy's long standing record of being the first African-American Comedian to surpass over $1.1 million two-day live Comedy show ticket sales. Hartbeat Productions and CODEBLACK Entertainment are proud to bring you the historical, record-breaking and side-splitting stand-up of Kevin Hart in LAUGH AT MY PAIN. John Sellers of The Wrap says, Hart's highly successful 'Laugh at My Pain' stand-up tour has turned him into a hot commodity in Hollywood.

Heckler

HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.

Steve-O - "The Early Years"

How did a college drop-out with a drug and alcohol problem use a home video camera to become an international icon of bad behavior? Don't try this at home presents Steve-O: The Early Years, a documentary full of footage that censors would never allow on television.

What The Bleep Do We Know: Down The Rabbit Hole

Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.