Ellen DeGeneres - Here and Now
With a loose, free-associative flow, Ellen DeGeneres glides through her  2003 HBO special,Here and Now. In just the first 10 minutes she  touches on procrastination, new paint colors, television commercials, and  mental disorders--topics that fit into the show's subtitle,Modern Life  and Other Inconveniences. By the end, she's also spun out sneaky jokes  about cell phones, memory loss, elevators, vocal inflections, pickle jars,  and social embarrassment. Her genius is that she never seems like a  genius; on the contrary, DeGeneres seems like your next door neighbor  pointing out the obvious, yet somehow an hour whizzes by in complete  enjoyment. It's peerless observational humor--nothing groundbreaking or  piercingly satirical, but simply fun.--Bret Fetzer