From Violette the roulette-wheel whore to Victor the child serial killer, via Cyrano de Vergerac, Michaël lays himself bare as he tackles themes such as politics, the star system, homosexuality, and television. He cries, thrashes about, dances, sings, makes the audience scream, gives himself over completely—outrageous yet poetic—playing with limits and flirting with disaster… without a safety net and with great generosity.
Michaël Youn
Self
From Violette the roulette-wheel whore to Victor the child serial killer, via Cyrano de Vergerac, Michaël lays himself bare as he tackles themes such as politics, the star system, homosexuality, and television. He cries, thrashes about, dances, sings, makes the audience scream, gives himself over completely—outrageous yet poetic—playing with limits and flirting with disaster… without a safety net and with great generosity.
Vicious Circle captures the hottest comic in America in his first HBO comedy event, a unique "in the round" performance before his hometown Boston fans.
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally.
Facing a world gone sideways, comedy icon Dave Chappelle delivers bold truths and potent punchlines in this no-holds-barred special.
Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
From his onstage tackle to the slap heard round the world, Dave Chappelle lets loose in this freewheeling and unfiltered stand-up comedy special.
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.