The Best Stand Up Comedy Videos, Hand Picked By Our Favorite Celebrities

Maria Ciampa

Bostonian Maria Ciampa is the co-creator and director of the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. A comedian herself, Maria has performed at the North Carolina and Boston Comedy Festivals, and is a regular at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square. Maria has been nominated for Boston's best comedian by Boston Phoenix many times, and has never won, but feels honored just to have been nominated. She is currently working on a book of short stories about growing up in her large Italian American family, and will probably getting sued by a few of her sisters and definitely her brother for it. www.mariaciampa.com

Twisted breakup (01:26)
Maria Bamford

I love Maria because 1. She’s wicked funny, and 2. We’re name twins. Maria B. is headlining the WICF 2010 on March 27, and I just can’t wait.

The hilarity of men (02:08)
Jackie Kashian

Jackie is right about men. They are hilarious. And some of them smell good too. I can’t wait to take her workshop at WICF about doing comedy on the road.

My new magic trick (01:59)
Josh Gondelman

Josh is not only a great stand up, he is also really really good at not molesting children. I’ll let you see him in person to hear all about it.

My one Yoga complaint (02:29)
Kelly MacFarland

Kelly was the WICF 2009 headliner, because she’s so frickin’ awesome. I’m a yoga teacher when I’m sober enough to teach, and I think her take on yoga is exactly right.