Performance artists Smith and Skinner use heavily coded comedic costumes and performance, including extensive play with puppets, to articulate the simultaneous banality and ironic reflexivity of "popular comedy."
Michael Smith
Mike
Doug Skinner
Doug
Bill Burr: Why Do I Do This?
Sincerely Louis C.K.
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
Eddie Murphy Raw
Jimmy Carr: Laughing and Joking
Noises Off...
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Rowan Atkinson Live
Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry
Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man