We’ve collected (and will continue to update) the most comprehensive overview of movies and documentaries about stand-up comedy or where stand-up comedy plays a role. There are many comedies out there with comedians however we wanted to specifically focus on stand-up comedy.
Stand-up comedy movies
- Funny people
- Loosely based on Judd Apatow’s own career as a stand-up comedian. In our opinion not his absolute best comedy (we love Superbad the most) but Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann do a great job. Eric Bana plays the biggest douche he’s ever played but was excellent in it. The stand-up club scene throughout the movie is an essential piece of the movie.
- The king of comedy
- Punchline
- The big sick
- Mr. saturday night
- Man on the moon
- The comedian
- Lenny
- Top Five
Stand-up comedy documentaries
- The aristocrats
- The dark side of comedy
- Patrice O’Neal: Killing is easy
- I am road comic
- The unbookables
- Misery loves comedy
- Can we take a joke?
- Dying laughing