John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show
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John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show is a stand up comedy television series that currently airs on Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

 in the United States. Hosted by British comedian John Oliver
John Oliver (comedian)
John Oliver is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for which he won an Emmy in 2009. He also plays a recurring character, Professor Ian Duncan, on the television series Community...

, the show features new material by both up-and-coming and established comedians. Each episode opens with Oliver's witty observations before introducing his guests. The final comedian is the headliner and does a super-sized set. The show's first episode premiered on January 8, 2010.

Season 1

Episode # Production # Original Air Date Guests
1-01 103 January 8, 2010
  • Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...

  • Nick Kroll
    Nick Kroll
    Nick Kroll is an American actor and comedian best known for appearing in television shows such as Best Week Ever, Cavemen and Sit Down, Shut Up. He co-stars in the shows The Life & Times of Tim and The League....

     (as Fabrice Fabrice)
  • Greg Fitzsimmons
    Greg Fitzsimmons
    Greg Fitzsimmons is an American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer and radio host.-Life and career:Fitzsimmons has performed his comedy on numerous programs such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chelsea Lately and Comedy...

  • Eugene Mirman
    Eugene Mirman
    Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker. Mirman currently plays Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated, and voices Gene Belcher for the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.-Early life:Mirman was born in Russia to Jewish parents...

1-02 105 January 15, 2010
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian, best known for her leading role as Chloe O'Brian on the Fox action-thriller 24.-Early life:...

  • Hari Kondabolu
    Hari Kondabolu
    Hari Kondabolu is an American stand-up comic.-Career:A graduate of Bowdoin College and the London School of Economics, he has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as appearing on a variety of national comedy festivals, including the 2007 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. Additionally, he has made...

  • Matt Braunger
    Matt Braunger
    Matthew "Matt" Braunger is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian. Outside of performing stand-up, Braunger is most notable for being a cast member on MADtv during its final season in 2008-2009 and for co-starring in the web series IKEA Heights....

  • Brian Posehn
    Brian Posehn
    Brian Edmund Posehn is an American actor, voice actor, musician and comedian, known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on NBC's Just Shoot Me!, a cast member and writer on HBO's Mr. Show, and most recently as Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.-Early life:Posehn...

  • 1-03 103 January 22, 2010
  • Hannibal Buress
    Hannibal Buress
    Hannibal Buress is an American stand-up comedian and television writer currently living in New York City.Buress was featured in "The Awkward Comedy Show" special on Comedy Central, alongside comics Baron Vaughn, Eric André, Marina Franklin, and Victor Varnado, and on the FX sitcom Louie...

  • Pete Holmes
    Pete Holmes
    Pete Holmes is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:Holmes was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States....

  • Matt McCarthy
    Matt McCarthy (comedian)
    Matt McCarthy is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor living in New York City.-Early Life:...

  • Janeane Garofalo
    Janeane Garofalo
    Janeane Garofalo is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local comedy and performance art scene.-Early...

  • 1-04 104 January 29, 2010
  • Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...

  • Hannibal Buress
  • Amy Schumer
    Amy Schumer
    Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian. She placed fourth on NBC's Last Comic Standing Season 5, and she placed second on Comedy Central's Reality Bites Back.-Life and career:...

  • Marc Maron
    Marc Maron
    Marc Maron is an American stand-up comedian and podcast host.He has been host of The Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition, and Breakroom Live, all politically-oriented shows, produced under the auspices of Air America Media. He was also the host of Comedy Central's Short Attention...

  • 1-05 105 February 5, 2010
  • Chris Hardwick
    Chris Hardwick
    Christopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist...

  • Nick Kroll
    Nick Kroll
    Nick Kroll is an American actor and comedian best known for appearing in television shows such as Best Week Ever, Cavemen and Sit Down, Shut Up. He co-stars in the shows The Life & Times of Tim and The League....

  • Matt Braunger
  • Kristen Schaal
    Kristen Schaal
    Kristen Schaal is an American actress, writer and comedienne, best known for her role as Mel in the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, as Louise in Bob's Burgers and as a contributor on The Daily Show.-Early life:...

  • 1-06 106 February 12, 2010
  • Chris Hardwick
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub is an American actress and comedian, best known for her leading role as Chloe O'Brian on the Fox action-thriller 24.-Early life:...

  • Greg Fitzsimmons
  • Paul F. Tompkins
    Paul F. Tompkins
    Paul Francis Tompkins , best known as Paul F. Tompkins, is an American actor and comedian.-Life and career:Tompkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a receptionist mother and railway worker father. He started out in stand-up comedy in 1986 at The Comedy Works, Philadelphia, PA, where he...


  • Season 2

    Episode # Production # Original Air Date Guests
    2-01 March 25, 2011
    • Kyle Kinane
      Kyle Kinane
      Kyle Kinane is an American stand-up comedian originally from Addison, Illinois.-Career:Kinane currently performs stand-up regularly in the Los Angeles area. His debut album Death of the Party, released in 2010 on AST Records, has won critical acclaim...

    • Glenn Wool
      Glenn Wool
      Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian now living in the United Kingdom. His material veers between sagely political and gleefully silly, discussing both the pop group Franz Ferdinand and the Pope's contribution to cryrogenics programmes during his time onstage. Wool starred in a self-titled...

    • Rory Scovel
    • Pete Holmes
      Pete Holmes
      Pete Holmes is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and cartoonist based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:Holmes was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States....

    2-02 March 31, 2011
  • Deon Cole
  • Moshe Kasher
    Moshe Kasher
    Moshe Kasher is an award winning American stand up comic writer and actor from Oakland, California. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles and tours nationally and internationally.- Stand up comedy:Moshe began his career in San Francisco in 2001...

  • Marina Franklin
  • Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford
    Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression. Her comedy style draws upon surrealism and incorporates voice impressions that good-naturedly mock various...

  • 2-03 April 7, 2011
  • Anthony Jeselnik
    Anthony Jeselnik
    Anthony Jeselnik is an American stand-up comedian and television writer.-Personal life:Jeselnik was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelors degree in English Literature from Tulane University, then moved to Los Angeles...

  • Rory Albanese
    Rory Albanese
    Rory Albanese , a Long Island, New York native, is an executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which he joined in 1999. Albanese is also an accomplished stand-up comedian...

  • Deon Cole
  • Tommy Johnagin
    Tommy Johnagin
    Tommy Johnagin is an American stand-up comedian.Johnagin is from Benton, Illinois. He began performing stand-up comedy at age 18 and dropped out of college at age 21 to become a full-time comedian.-Career:...

  • David Koechner
    David Koechner
    David Michael Koechner is an American comedian, musician, and character actor. Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of Del Close, before joining the Second City Northwest...

  • 2-04 April 14, 2011
  • Mike Lawrence
  • Marina Franklin
  • Brendon Walsh
    Brendon Walsh
    Brendon Michael Walsh is an American stand-up comedian who is originally from Philadelphia. He started his comedy career in Austin, Texas in 2002...

  • Greg Behrendt
    Greg Behrendt
    Gregory Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author. His work as a script consultant to the HBO sitcom Sex and the City, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, paved the way for co-authoring of the New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That into You , later adapted into a film by the same name...

  • 2-05 April 21, 2011
  • Brendon Walsh
  • Glenn Wool
  • Kumail Nanjiani
    Kumail Nanjiani
    -Career:Born in Karachi, Nanjiani lived in Pakistan until he moved to the United States when he was 18 and attended Grinnell College in Iowa. Since beginning his career in Chicago, he has performed standup on a number of television programs including the Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night...

  • Kirk Fox
    Kirk Fox
    Kirk Fox is an American actor, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian.-Career:Fox has been acting in television and film since the early 1990s. In 2003 he received attention for his work with Pauly Shore as co-writer and co-star of the film Pauly Shore Is Dead, and in 2005 he wrote, co-produced, and...

  • 2-06 April 28, 2011
  • Kumail Nanjiani
  • Jen Kirkman
    Jen Kirkman
    Jennifer "Jen" Kirkman is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and actress, best known for her appearances on E!'s late-night talk show Chelsea Lately and the web series Drunk History...

  • Kyle Kinane
  • Al Madrigal
    Al Madrigal
    Alessandro Liborio "Al" Madrigal is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Perhaps best known for co-starring in the CBS prime-time situation comedies Gary Unmarried with Jay Mohr and Welcome to the Captain with Jeffrey Tambor and Raquel Welch, he is also a regular sketch performer on The Late...


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