Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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Ed Byrne: Pedantic and Whimsical (2006)
8.3/10
Director: Helen Downing
Starring: Ed Byrne
Capturing all of the Irish comedian's best live bits, and showing how he worked his way up from local comedy circuits to becoming the biggest-selling... Read more
Ed TV (1999)
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Hurley, Ellen DeGe...
A video store librarian's life is turned upside down when he agrees to have his life filmed 24 hours a day. The resulting media circus makes for enter... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Circle (2000)
7.9/10
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Live comedy with the master of sublime weirdness, recorded in New York, June 26, 2000. Eddie discusses such topics as the Crusades, mad European cows,... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Definite Article (1996)
8.5/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Eddie Izzard
This superb video was recorded in the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, when Eddie was in the middle of a sell-out 10 week run. "A genius of many talents a... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Dress To Kill (1998)
8.7/10
Director: Larry Jordan
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard's unique ability in looping topics such as pop culture and human behaviour into bizarre chains of association has catapulted him into one... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Glorious (1997)
8.5/10
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Eddie Izzard
This rollercoaster of joyful, abstract humour for the open-minded was recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo in October 1997. "Grand, explosive, smar... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Sexie (2010)
7.5/10
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Through Australia, UK, Canada, USA, Ireland, and the Town Hall, Christchurch, this tour was performed to more people than there are in Iceland (280,00... Read more
Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (1994)
8.1/10
Director: John Gordillo
Starring: Eddie Izzard
Recorded at the Albery Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of his celebrated stand-up show. "A comi... Read more
Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983)
8.2/10
Starring: Eddie Murphy
The year was 1983 and NOTHING was sacred! Jokes about puberty, dating, Mr T, disciplinarian mothers, and the personality traits of Michael Jackson wer... Read more
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Townsend
Starring: Eddie Murphy
Filmed live at New York's Felt Forum, Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on 80s love, se... Read more