Imagine: The Art of Stand-Up was a 2-part documentary series, made for BBC1, by Alan Yentob.

• Ep 1 – December 19^th 2011 / 70 minutes
• Ep 2 – December 20^th 2011 / 70 minutes

The people featured seem to be listed as Cast and Guest Cast but I can’t see what the difference is, in relation to how much they were interviewed etc.

Across the 2 episodes the comics featured included:

• Anthony Jeselnik
• Billy Connolly
• Chris Addison
• Dara O’Briain
• Dave Allen
• David Baddiel
• Ed Byrne
• Eddie Izzard
• Frank Skinner
• Jack Dee
• Jack Whitehall
• Jackie Mason
• Jim Davidson
• Jimmy Carr
• Kevin Bridges (briefly)
• Mel Brooks
• Omid Djalili
• Rich Hall
• Russell Kane
• Scott Capurro
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Simon Amstell
• Tom Papa
• Woody Allen

There is a playlist here of videos of the shows, cut up into 15 minutes parts. It’s VERY heavy on Eddie Izzard and Simon Amstell, so I skimmed through a lot of it. IMHO, it wanders off into the weeds towards the end.

Just pulling 2 out, that are relevant to this blog:

Jimmy features in the video below (from 5 minutes) and the clip was from the same filming session (at the Edinburgh Fringe) as this EICC interview in 2010.

Also, in this second video – some stage clips (from the Telling Jokes DVD) around 5.30.