Highest-Rated Movies about 'Comedy Club', Sort by Popularity

Festival (2005), Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998), Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018), Don't Think Twice (2016), Funny Cow (2017), The Aristocrats (2005), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), Heckler (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Comedy Club movies.

#1. Festival (2005)

Storyline: Following a number of performers and judges who converge at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Several tales are interwoven as the judge of a comedy award drives his personal assistant to distraction (and the bottle), a would-be comedienne tries to get her big break, and an actress mounts her earnest and challenging one-woman play.

Plot Keywords: struggling actor, judge, television star, competitor, assistant, comedian, madcap ...

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#2. Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

Storyline: Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.

Plot Keywords: robert de niro, comedian, friend, mother, drug addict, tv personality, rousing ...

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#3. Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018)

Storyline: It's a documentary about the life of eccentric comedian Frank Sidebottom who wore a huge papier-mache' head and whose true identity was a closely guarded secret until after he died. The 2014 Magnolia Pictures film titled Frank was inspired by his sensational mystery.—Willow Dancer

Plot Keywords: comedian, hilarious, fascinating, manchester, england, comedy club, documentaries, life story ...

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#4. Don't Think Twice (2016)

Storyline: JACK (Keegan Michael Key) & his girlfriend Samantha (Gillian Jacobs) are a perfect couple who are also Teammates on a popular improv group that perform at a struggling comedy spot in NYC. Together, the team has a family like bond but individually they have their personal dreams of being on the weekly television show "This Weekend Live".

Plot Keywords: young man, girlfriend, teammate, friend, airy, amusing, witty ...

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#6. The Aristocrats (2005)

Storyline: Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends--who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman--to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats."—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: comedian, performer, actor, writer, hilarious, witty, disturbing ...

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#7. Mad Dog and Glory (1993)

Storyline: Wayne Dobie is a shy police photographer who saves the life of crime boss Frank Milo. Greatful, Milo insists on being Wayne's friend, offering him the companionship of "Glory", one of his employees. Wayne is thus in a difficult situation: he can't be seen to be fraternising with criminals, and he's unsure about how to deal with Glory.

Plot Keywords: police officer, crime boss, therapist, waitress, amusing, quirky, apartment ...

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#8. Heckler (2007)

Storyline: A documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel, and many more. This fast moving documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: comedian, actor, club owner, author, critic, lighthearted, engaging ...

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#9. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)

Storyline: Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition. He has a minor meltdown when talking at a grade school career day. Things look up when he meets the quirky Beth at an ice cream shop. Can James make a career for himself, move out from mom's, and find someone to eat cheese with? Or is he destined to watch Jackie Gleason and be Marty for the rest of his life?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: actor, mother, agent, girlfriend, teacher, overweight person, hilarious ...

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#10. The Comedian (2016)

Storyline: Jackie (Robert DeNiro) is a comic icon, attempting to reinvent himself despite his audience only wanting to know him as a television character he played earlier in his career. After accosting an audience member, Jackie is sentenced to community service where he meets Harmony Schiltz (Leslie Mann).—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)

Plot Keywords: comedian, love interest, mogul, friend, family member, brother, cheeky ...

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#12. The Jimmy Show (2002)

Storyline: Jimmy O'Brien works in the stockroom of a grocery store, where he is reminded of his powerlessness by his boss. Only his love for his wife offers him comfort, but their obligations to his invalid grandmother and a new baby stifle their dreams. It is not until open-mike night at the local comedy club that he allows himself to do what he needs to do: run off at the mouth.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: inventor, wife, stoner, coach, comedian, amusing, bleak ...

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