Summary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPESummary: A successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend's struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOLSummary: A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIMSummary: Jimmy Quinn, an alcoholic comedian, travels the country by bus, as the world of standup comedy slowly dies. One day at a motel, his long-lost son David, who has dropped out of med school to be a comedian, appears. They grow closer during their road trip, but tensions rise due to Jimmy's destructive behavior. David learns about Jimmy's failed relationship with Laura and his past as a comedian....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROA1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ThreeSummary: George is a very successful stand-up comedian who learns that he has less than a year to live. Ira, who is a struggling up-and-coming comedian works at a deli. One night the two perform at the same club, and George decides to make Ira his best friend. This lopsided relationship gradually takes on aspects of true friendship as Ira forces George to try to reconnect with the people in his life,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FUNSummary: Tells the story of troubled nightclub comic Lenny Bruce, his wife Honey Harlowe, and his fatal decline through drug addiction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LENSummary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOKPlemons, Jesse
Summary: A struggling comedy writer returns to his hometown to take care of his dying mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Video 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OTHSummary: Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OBVRock, Chris
Summary: When a comedian, having become a reality TV star at the hands of his fiancée, allows a newspaper profile writer follow him around for a day, he explores the issues in his life and learns about the writer's life as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOPSummary: When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HereSummary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACSummary: When an illness brings comedian Emily Martin back to her college town of Austin, Texas, she must endure an awkward weekend with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MR.Birbiglia, Mike
Summary: A stand-up comedian tries to balance his rising career and a long-term relationship with his girlfriend while also dealing with a sleep disorder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLEKey, Keegan-Michael
Summary: Friendships are tested when a member of a New York City improv group gets a huge break.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DONSummary: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIGSummary: The story of an embarrassing high school mishap from 1992 that sends the jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and liberate three of the four Jokers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMPDe Niro, Robert
Summary: When an aging comedian trying to make a comeback is sentenced to community service for accosting an audience member, he meets the daughter of a real estate mogul and the pair find inspiration in each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: Harry and his friends form "The Harmonists", a singing group in pre-war Germany. Changes in the nation's political tide force them to make decisions that will test their loyalty. When three of the six are disclosed as Jews, the group faces banning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Intertainment 2002