
Death to 2020
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.
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2021★ 6.0
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983★ 7.3
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

Ricky Gervais: Mortality
2025★ 7.0
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2020★ 6.4
14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Bill Burr: I'm Sorry You Feel That Way
2014★ 7.7
Fresh, unflinching and devastatingly honest, Bill Burr lets loose in this feature length comedy special. Burr shares his essential tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse, exposes how rom-coms ruin great sex and explains how too many childhood hugs may be the ultimate downfall of man.

Bill Hicks: Relentless
1992★ 7.5
Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music.

Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019★ 5.9
Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, 'Between Two Ferns' and uploaded it to Funny or Die, Zach became a viral laughing stock. Now Zach and his crew are taking a road trip to complete a series of high-profile celebrity interviews and restore his reputation.

A Mighty Wind
2003★ 6.8
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Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
2023★ 6.1
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Cloverfield
2008★ 6.7
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Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
2025★ 7.2
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Project X
2012★ 6.9
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The Nowhere Inn
2021★ 5.8
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Ricky Gervais: Humanity
2018★ 7.7
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Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles
2013★ 6.7
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977★ 6.2
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This Is Spinal Tap
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The Onion Movie
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Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm
1999★ 7.5
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