Lancastrian comic Dave Spikey performs live stand-up, drawing on his 30-year stint of working for the NHS to regale his audience with hysterical tales of hospital life as well as stories of his school days, cheese addiction, monkeys on bikes, llamas on the loose and a crash course in 'jollyphonics'.

Four Middle Eastern comics, Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader, Maz Jobrani, and Dean Obeidallan help to further the cause of East-West relations by bringing their own brand of stand up to an American audience.

The popular raconteur recounts another selection of witty stories and anecdotes in this live stand up show.

BBC Scotland sketch comedy series introduces a cast of motley Caledonians. Originally a radio programme, Chewin' The Fat was the springboard from which its creators, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, launched Jack and Victor - the central characters of subsequent spinoff, 'Still Game'. Alongside the peripatetic pensioners, the programme also featured such varied favourites as; Betty The Auld Slapper who sat, open legged, retelling her invariably pornographic wartime remembrances, Ballistic Bob, to whom the most perfunctory task provided potential for unfettered rage and Eric The Activist who favoured doing unto animal abusers as they would do unto animals like pouring salt on a man salting snails then taking flight shouting his catchphrase, 'c'mon the slugs.'

One of the stars of 'Phoenix Nights', award-winning comedian Dave Spikey, performs his unique brand of stand up comedy in front of a live audience.

Live performance by Jack Dee, TV's funniest hard-man recorded in London's theatreland. Jack combines his unremittingly deadpan take on the world with the tradition of great comic timing.

Live stand up performance by English comedian, writer and actor Lee Evans, recorded during his 2014 'Monsters' tour.

A stand up performance featuring the US actor and comedian. Recorded in front of a sold-out crowd at New York's Madison Square Gardens, the film also follows Hart as he crosses the country and continents on his 2012 'Let Me Explain' tour.

In this double bill of fast-paced and outrageously non politically correct live shows, irreverent stand-up comedian Denis Leary (best known for his acting work) attacks sacred cows such as fitness freaks, parenthood, drug taking, smoking, vegetarians and a lot more besides. Leary works himself into a frenzy as he storms across the stage, taunting non-smokers in the audience by constantly billowing smoke into the air from a constant chain of cigarettes. Shows included are: 'No Cure for Cancer' and 'Lock 'n Load'.