PickVidsBest Stand-up & sketch comedy Videos
「Stand-up & sketch comedy」下面有244部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门0部，适合还没学过的人；进阶1部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向242部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的1部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是喜剧，所以它们的共同点是用这个圈子的共同背景开玩笑。常出现的频道包括Saturday Night Live、BBC Studios、Comedy Central。目录给这个主题划的范围是：Comedy: stand-up specials, sketch comedy, Monty Python, Mr. Show, comedians, improv, comedy clubs, talk-show comedy, funny bits and absurdist humor.如果只看三部，就从《Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
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.