A master of the one-liner with an absurd rambling style, Zach's sharp, resonating humor makes his show at the famed Purple Onion in San Francisco one of the funniest performances in recent comedy.This 2007 DVD remains, far and away, the finest showcase for the idiosyncratic comic genius of Mr. Galifianakis, who does a screamingly funny set at the legendary San Francisco club, trotting out his trademark piano one-liners and easel bits, as well as some first-rate crowd work. Well we’ve got some of the greatest ones of all time listed in the stand-up special runsheet below. Spend an intimate evening with Maria Bamford in her cozy 'shot-at-home' comedy special. She is best known as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and as an eccentric fan on Flight of the Conchords.The structure of the TV stand-up special (opening “sketch,” big entrance, up-close photography, cutaways to hysterical audience members, big finish, return to the opening sketch) is so tried and true that there’s something sort of daring about anyone who shakes it up.

Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape.Some of the material (particularly the tired anti-gay stuff) hasn’t aged all that well — and neither has that red leather suit. Multi-talented funnyman Damon Wayans breaks loose in front of a live audience in this riotous special.Though he taped two very good follow-up hours in the ensuing years, nothing Wayans has ever done quite matched the sheer force and energy of his debut stand-up special on HBO’s anthology half-hour One Night Stand, during that show’s inaugural 1989 season. Silverman re-teams with Liam Lynch, who directed her theatrically released stand-up/musical mash-up Jesus Is Magic, and shot her new act at the 39-seat small room at Los Angeles’ Largo (ridiculed for the size of the space in the prologue, she roars, “It’s called intimate, *beep* In the hour that follows, Silverman forges new territory, quietly dropping — with only occasional exceptions — the oblivious, egocentric character of her earlier act and forging a relationship with her audience that is more honest and direct. The result is one of the finest specials in their history, a jolly jaunt through all of civilization, with a very funny transvestite leading the tour.It almost seemed as though the bold, confrontational, and thought-provoking Hicks had to get the hell outta the States to look at his home country with proper cynical detachment, and that’s what happened in the early 1990s, when he toured the United Kingdom and made the Revelations special for Channel 4. [HBO] HD. "Seriously Funny" stars Kevin Hart performing in front of a sold out crowd live from Cleveland, Ohio - where he delivers his hilarious and unique brand of comedy. 's second one-hour special filmed at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, MA.After the failure of his HBO sitcom Lucky Louie, Louis C.K. When George Carlin is asked which HBO concert is his favorite, his answer is always, "Jammin' In New York."

Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The results are fascinating — a sly commentary on the thin line separating life and art.

But it is this 2003 special that finds her at her comic peak, discussing everything from yogurt to sexuality (which would become so much a part of her public persona after coming out in 1997).

Share Share Tweet Email. But nobody heard you firing!” (Interesting side note: the show is directed by Robert Townsend, who helmed the much dirtier — not to mention Cosby-bashing — Eddie Murphy: Raw.) It performed far beyond expectations — partially because it was a smart thing to do, partially because it contains some of his wisest and funniest material, countering topics typical of modern stand-up (sex, drugs, aging, parenthood) with self-reflective bits about his own selfishness and desire to be a better human being. Since 9/11, Miller has repurposed himself as a far-right loon, spewing bile on talk radio and kibitzing on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly — which would be fine if he were still funny. Pepper” the heroin-addicted open mic comic, NPR’s poor music choices, Stella D’oro Breakfast Treats, and true crime television. In his first special in thirty years, he leaves the audience asking, "How did he get inside our house?" Emmy(R)-winning actress/comic Wanda Sykes returns to HBO for her second full-length stand-up special.