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.
Flanders & Swann - 'First And Second Law'
Flanders and Swann perform 'First and Second Law', a comic song about the laws of thermodynamics, from their 1964 stage show At the Drop of Another Hat.
George Carlin on Soft Language
A George Carlin stand-up bit from Doin' It Again about soft language and euphemism, showing how softened words hide uncomfortable facts.
Louis CK - Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy
A short clip of Louis CK on Conan riffing that everything is amazing and nobody is happy, about complaining over modern wonders like air travel and wifi.
George Carlin on soft language
A clip from George Carlin's 1990 special 'Doin' It Again' in which he describes how American English has been sterilized with euphemisms, using examples such as shell shock becoming PTSD.
Bill Hicks on Marketing
A short clip of Bill Hicks's stand-up bit telling marketers and advertisers to kill themselves, which is a harsh critique of advertising.
Conan O'Brien | Talks at Google
Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter visit Google's Mountain View headquarters in 2010 for a comedic Q&A.
David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance from The Last Leg
A short clip of comedian David Mitchell on The Last Leg discussing tax avoidance versus tax evasion and why taxes matter.
George Carlin - Euphemisms & political correctness
A George Carlin routine on euphemisms and political correctness, tracing how shell shock became PTSD.
George Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!
A clip from George Carlin's 2005 special Life Is Worth Losing, in which he argues that the powerful don't want an educated public capable of critical thinking.
Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear | BBC
In this Top Gear segment Jeremy Clarkson tries to roll a Reliant Robin three-wheeler through Barnsley, with celebrity helpers trying to keep it upright.
The Whitest Kids U' Know - I want to kill the president
A short Whitest Kids U' Know sketch, with Spanish subtitles, in which a man repeatedly announces he wants to kill the president.
Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Elevator in Scotland
A Burnistoun sketch from BBC Scotland in which two men try to use a voice-recognition elevator that cannot understand their Scottish accents.
Bill Burr Answers "Can Women Be Funny?"
A one-minute clip of comedian Bill Burr answering whether women can be funny at the Just For Laughs festival.
A Bit of Fry & Laurie Concerning Language
A Fry and Laurie sketch about language, full of absurd phrases and wordplay, which also plays on the distinction between langue and parole.
Office Space - If I had a million dollars
A 54-second clip from the film Office Space in which two coworkers talk about what they would do with a million dollars.
Bill Hicks on "Marketing" (Explicit Language)
A two-minute clip of comedian Bill Hicks doing his routine on marketing and advertising, with explicit language.
GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines
Tom 7 (suckerpinch) delivers a long, comedic digression on gradient descent and floating-point imprecision.
George Carlin - advertising and bull shit
A clip of George Carlin riffing on advertising and the nonsense around it, taken from a longer piece tied to the Zeitgeist movie.
Michael Drives Into A Lake - The Office US
A short scene from The Office US in which Michael Scott blindly follows his GPS and drives into a lake.
Exact Instructions Challenge PB&J Classroom Friendly | Josh Darnit
A family comedy video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a parent follows them with exact literalness, producing chaos.
The Reason Education Sucks
A five-minute clip of a George Carlin routine arguing that the education system is designed to produce compliant citizens rather than critical thinkers.
Tim Minchin: Storm
Tim Minchin performs his comedic beat poem 'Storm', a roughly nine-minute rant against homeopathy, alternative medicine and woolly thinking.
Flash Mob Gone Wrong | Tom Scott | Ignite
Tom Scott's Ignite London talk about a flash mob that went very wrong.
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
A Mitchell and Webb sketch in which two German soldiers realize their uniforms carry skulls and wonder whether they are the baddies.