It is the network's main half-hour program which highlights either one or a series of stand-up comedians each episode.

In 2011, the series ended and Comedy Central replaced it with the revamped The Half Hour, now called Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, a series of 30-minute stand-up specials.

Previously, some of these episodes have appeared on DVDs of comedians' stand-up specials, only they remained censored.

There is one moment in Dane Cook's special when he gives the finger, which was blurred on television, that remains blurred.

Unlike the first DVD, this DVD removes all of the commercial bumper titles and isolates the credits of each show.