"Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story" profiles the stand-up comic, sitcom director and host of "Inside Comedy," which returns with guests Jimmy Fallon and Zach Galifianakis.
The Comedy Bible: Judy Carter's The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom -- The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide ($16.00) is perfect for the wannabe stand-up kid on your list.
LONDON -- There is timely comedy, which is what most satire, stand-up and sitcoms are.
"Every guy who does stand-up has a sitcom idea and a script," said Mr. Nanjiani's friend Pete Holmes, a stand-up whose greatest successes so far have come with a sketch-group parody ad for Doritos that ran during last year's Super Bowl, and cartoons published in The New Yorker.
Members of Congress have long been portrayed by stand-up comedians and sitcom writers as self-serving crooks, and bureaucrats are often lambasted in a similar fashion.
Sexually ambiguous and somehow nave, earnest but a little chilly, she managed to use that affectlessness-as-brainpower persona that had already invaded television commercials, stand-up comedy and sitcoms.
Funny women are much more numerous now, but most of them are in stand-up or in sitcoms whose humor is primarily verbal; and although they are bolder than their predecessors in some ways, they do not, on the whole, look as if they would be comfortable putting on a floppy hat and stuffing their cheeks full of assembly-line chocolates.
DVD £10.76, Network The Sarah Silverman Program Season One The stand-up's cheerily sacrilegious sitcom.
In his first blush of popularity about a decade ago, with his stand-up comedy, films and sitcom, Martin Lawrence was unavoidable.
His road to regular performances in Las Vegas, an ABC sitcom, stand-up specials on HBO and now a talk show has not always been easy.
