History of the World, Part II

A motley crew of Latvian ne'er-do-wells performs rude, crude and lewd stunts.

Seth Rogen's fund-raiser for Alzheimer's research at Montreal's Just for Laughs festival features stand-up performances by Hannibal Buress, Jim Norton, Jerrod Carmichael, Al Madrigal, Michelle Wolf and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

An avid astronomer fights to save the observatory that overlooks her small town from closure. With a corrupt council and a lazy mayor, she faces an uphill battle.

Tracey Takes On...Movies, Vanity, Fame is a 78-minute collection of skits from the HBO comedy series Tracey Takes On, starring Tracey Ullman as several high-maintenance Hollywood characters. Rayleen Gibson is the Australian stunt woman to the stars, Janie Pillsworth is the glossy magazine editor, and Sydney Kross is the stressed-out entertainment lawyer.

France's most amusing comics perform terrifying tasks as they try to outwit each other while staying in spooky locations.