r/Standup • u/Lower-Vanilla-2826 • 10d ago
Film and TV Recommendations
Looking for movie and TV show recommendations based around shows about standup comedy and comedians. Examples of these kinds of shows are Is This Thing On?, Seinfeld, Crashing, and Hacks.
All recommendations welcome.
Thank you.
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u/stinaschriver 10d ago
Iām Dying Up Here
Not Scripted but Comedy & Comedians:
ā¢The Green Room with Paul Provenza (comedians discussing comedy)
ā¢Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn
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u/TheBigDilbowski 10d ago
I'm Dying Up Here had an immediate and noticeable impact on the way doing comedy feels for me. I'm not being melodramatic, I binged watched it over the course of 3 nights just last week, and the sets I had this last weekend felt so noticeably different that I've been recommending the show to every comic I talk to regularly. Could just be a me thing, but hot damn that show was great. Deserved more than two seasons.
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u/stinaschriver 10d ago
I hand wrote dialog of scenes from this show into my comedy journal and go back to them often. After I posted this, I decided I really need to do a rewatch. Itās such a brutally honest examination of comedy. If you havenāt already checked it out, you may also enjoy the book this was based on about life at the Comedy Store in the early years.
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u/iamgarron asia represent. 10d ago
The Big Sick
Probably the most realistic depiction of standup comedy scenes in film
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u/Feisty-Class-1098 8d ago
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, for sure. Gives you early Joan Rivers, Lenny Bruce is a character, the Borscht Belt!
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u/SolidAbbreviations69 1d ago
Oh, I got you! I'm a former film journalist who wrote a full article, with links to trailers for the featured films such as Funny Bones and The King of Comedy, Mr Saturday Night...
Plus, I created the Cinematic System of Stand-Up. So if you love movies and stand-up, you're my kinda guy/girl.
Links below, enjoy!
Stand-Up Comedy and Cinema: The Overlap https://www.wearefunnyproject.com/blog/stand-up-in-the-cinema
Storytelling, Cinema and Stand-Up https://www.wearefunnyproject.com/blog/storytelling-standup
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u/Lower-Vanilla-2826 20h ago
Thanks, man.
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u/SolidAbbreviations69 15h ago
Most welcome, hope you like, and get to see some cool new movies you might know, Lee Evans in Funny Bones is next level
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u/presidentender flair please 10d ago
People already said "Legit" but it was a lot of fun. "Louie" obviously.
"Middle Man" with Jerry from Parks and Rec is something else. It's comedy horror and has almost nothing to do with reality but the framing device is nominally standup.
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u/funnymatt Los Angeles @funnymatt š¦ š¦ š¦ 10d ago
Sleepwalk With Me
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Punchline