Louis CK, the only man in the world funny enough to un-cancel himself
Lol true. Though it helps when half of your routine is to joke about how shitty of a person you think you are, and then it turns out that’s true, and people are like “yeah that checks out”
Bill Burr
Bill burr all the way!
I don't even have to watch his full specials. I just watch him in Conans show , and it lights me up!
This fockin guy
Taylor Tomlinson
She is consistently very good, and has excellent stage presence.
Taylor's recent "Look at you" show was hilarious. The story behind that title is amazing too!
Sorry progressive and always know when I watch her stuff that I'm in for a good time.
I'll give you two, one living, one passed.
Randy Feltface is great with crowd work.
Mitch Hedberg was a genius with delivery, and even though I've seen most of his recorded work multiple times, I still laugh out loud.
I have a chance to see Randy Feltface live in December but may have to go by myself since my one standup buddy said he "can't do puppets" lol. I mean I get the puppet hate but this isn't like Jeff Dunham, Randy is actually legitimately funny to the point that you kinda forget you're looking at a puppet.
also agreed on Mitch, RIP.
Craig Ferguson is probably my number one though. His specials aren't even that great but the three times I've seen him live have been hysterical, and his Late Late Show was legendary imo, such a quick witted mind for improv.
Loved Ferguson. His books are worth a read, too.
George Carlin
Billy Connolly
Carl Barron
Scrolled too far without seeing Weird Al listed. He may not do stand-up but he's absolutely a comedian, and he's been making me laugh consistently for 30 years now.
George Carlin
George, Pryor and Hedberg still take up a lot of room in my playlists.
James Acaster is the correct answer in here - he is hilariously funny and very progressive
"Can you tell us about your flapjack?"
"Started making it. Had a breakdown.
...Bon appetit."
James Acaster
Mitch Hedberg
Stephen Wright
Love Mitch and Stephen - had never heard of James Acaster but took a chance based on your list and loved him :D thanks for the rec!
Patton Oswalt. I love that nerdy little hobbit man when he really gets on a rant.
Mike Birbiglia
Nate Bargatze
Seeing him again on Saturday. Can't wait!
His childhood primed him for comedy.
Bill Hicks
Fern Brady I find always makes me laugh, it's like she's enjoying herself and just bringing everyone else along for the ride. Even in interviews I just end up really enjoying myself.
Loved her on Taskmaster. "Have I met these potatoes before?!"
Between herself, John Kearns, and Munya, that season was a goldmine for 'comedians I had never heard of before and ended up loving'.
I've never watched taskmaster you know? People keep saying I should but there's just so much of it and only so much time in the day.
Try Fern's season! You don't have to watch any of the seasons in order, they all exist in a vacuum. And it's all on YouTube! I say give S14 E1 a shot and see how you like it :)
Jim Gaffigan
The first time I saw Beyond the Pale I thought I was gonna die laughing.
Bill Burr, Eddie Izzard, Diane Morgan, James Acaster, Jimmy O Yang
German: Carolin Kebekus, Kurt Krömer, Teddy Teclebrhan, Loriot (Rest in peace)
Demetri Martin! One liners galore and fun visual "musical" comedy.
Rowan Atkinson. I'm unable to watch Mr Bean or Blackadder with a straight face. Everything he does is comedy gold.
Also the one and only Robin Williams, may he rest in peace. Watched his stand up program and spilled my drink multiple times
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starma, to name but two.
All feels like gallows humour.
Conan O'Brien. He's just effortlessly funny, especially when he's just riffing with Sona and Matt on "Conan O'Brien needs a friend".
Awesome song. I also love "Prejudice" which is no doubt more controversial here in the States than his native Australia. His dark and transgressive humor takes a special kind of of person to appreciate it. He's also, IMO, a musical genius, which sometimes gets lost in the distraction of humor.
side note:
I met y'all after a show at my college in the 90's. Thanks for being good humans and bringing good music to our world.
Joe Wilkinson doesn't even have to open his mouth and I start laughing
I’m not saying you’re wrong - humour is subjective. But man, I don’t think Joe Wilkinson has made me even smile. He’s a total ruiner for me in 8 out of 10 cats.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I honestly don't get whatever he brings to the show. People really love him, so I've always thought it was just me.
The bit where he names people's penises is apparently the funniest thing ever to air on the show, and I just don't connect to it at all.
While I do find him funny, I do think that he seems to lean into one thing extremely heavily and the reaction of him is based on if you find the bit funny or not.
I never found Joe Wilkinson particularly entertaining - that was until his appearance on Taskmaster which was simply sublime.
Maria Bamford.
hysterical and a great human despite difficult circumstances
Absolutely. I saw her perform once and would see her again in a heartbeat.
Kyle Kinane
I saw him on Netflix and really enjoyed his set so I saw his live show and he delivered. Very funny guy. I am thinking of giving his podcast a chance although I have not heard of his cohost before. Do you recommend?
He's on a few podcasts at this point. The boogie monster, where he cohosts with Dave Stone. I like that one. He also has one with Shane Torres called No accounting for taste. That one I have not seen but I've seen shorts from and it seems funny.
Don Rickles. Some of his stuff is very dated, but he skewers everyone... with love. 🙄
Mr. Warmth himself
Billy Connolly
Definitely Hannibal buress is on my list
Mike Birbiglia
Tom Segura, although his latest special is my least favourite one.
I agree, though the finale bit of that special had me crying with laughter
I liked Tom Segura before he started to make fun of poor and homeless people.
I feel the same about Dave Chappelle
Not stand up. David Sedaris, his life essays, not the short stories.
The Ship Shape, amiright?
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" had me audibly cackling. He's the best!
James Veitch
His story about the rubber ducks is awesome
Was he the one that had some sort of scandal recently?
Jim Jefferies' childhood friend brothel story will always crack me up.
Also Australian and a master is Luke Heggie. Very dry, and worth a listen.
Sarah Millican
And her husband Gary Delaney. If you like puns, he's the current king.
Ramesh Ramanathan
And his evil twin, Romesh Ranganathan
He was one of my partner's teachers at school, she still finds it very weird when she sees him on TV.
I had no idea he was a teacher before this lol
This year I discovered Norm Macdonald and I think he's now my favourite.
Theo Vonn is also hilarious, not so much his stand up but in podcasts and general conversation.
Bill Burr is great too.
Jeff Arcuri - his funniest stuff is his crowd work so he constantly has new stuff to watch.
Rodney Dangerfield.
Still the king of one liners.
Dmitri Martin has an uncanny ability to make me laugh out loud like basically no one else can.
Milton Jones. His style is basically one-liners, but he's amazing at them. If you've ever watched his appearances on Mock the Week you'll know.
I'm going with the niche german option: Jan Philip Zymny. He is a former Poetry Slammer and writes hilarious dadaistic texts. An he can also do that spontaneous together with the audience.
And of course the german comedian Thorsten Sträter.
Kyle Kinane
10 that I have enjoyed a lot:
Kyle Kinane
Hannibal Buress
Patton Oswalt
Mike Birbiglia
Tig Notaro
Matt Braunger
Marc Maron
Bo Burnham
Jackie Kashian
Tim Robinson
Norm Macdonald
Bruan Reagan and Norm McDonald are two of my favorites.
Stavros Halkias
The end of the supermarket episode of Joe Pera Talks With You made me laugh harder than I have ever laughed in my life.
Joe Lycett, Stewart Lee, Philomena Cunk
Cunk is a fictional character. Diane Morgan is the comedienne that plays her.
I want her to be real.
I'm sure, somewhere, she is. My guess is working in retail management.
Her series "Mandy" was even funnier than Cunk, IMO
Man that series was both hilarious and depressing.
Stewart Lee is better than all other standup combined.
Jimmy O. Yang.
Jo Koy.
There are others, but these are the most recent I've watched.
My personal favourite is Jon Richardson.
That guy that's always drinking whiskey
"I'm Doug Stanhope, and that's why I drink"?
did you mean Ron White?
that guy is hysterical
Yup that's the guy! Yeah he is funny af
Ross Nobel has a surrealist ability beyond all others, delivered in a geordie accent makes it perfect.
TOHblerone
Lee Mack
Joke answer: Peter Molyneux
Serious answer: The sadly now retired Eckart von Hirschhausen, who does comedy mostly about health and medical topics.
lol what Peter Molyneux did? I know he's a videogame designer, but I'm out of the loop
Yeah he never fails to make me laugh. 😅
Taylor Tomlinson, Matteo Lane
Chris Estrada. His TV show This Fool is one of the best things to watch, it's SO good.
Also Maria Bamford is a riot.
Frankie Boyle
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias
Patton Oswalt and Michelle Buteau. Kind of an odd pairing considering their comedy is very different, but they both make me regularly wheeze laugh.
Michael McIntyre
And generally any comedian doing a bit about raising kids.
Michael MacIntyre is the comedic equivalent of beige wallpaper
Parenthood is a bit like beige wallpaper, though; you have to be able to find the funny in it or you’ll cry every day.
Beige wallpaper is still great though even if it doesnt make many people double take in amazement.
He may not be the most challenging comedian ever but he does observational stand up at the absolute top tier.
It's broad, it's over the top, but it's still brilliant. Similar to Peter Kay really.
In my opinion anyway, there aren't many things that are as subjective as comedy so to each their own!)
Chappelle really is the goat of stand up. Bill Burr is always fucking funny. Shane Gillis is pretty funny. Nikki Glaser is hilarious too.
never understood the hate he gets. I saw that special he did and I really didn't see anything disturbing.
I named 4 comedians, only 3 were male but I'm not entirely sure who you're referring to.
The world has become a sensitive weak place
I'm guessing Chapelle. Who was great back in the day. The new stuff? Ehhh. He is less funny and seems out of touch to me, like when he brought Musk on stage, and then proceeded to riff on his own audience for booing
First time I hear about the musk thing but it sounds tricky, yes. He got a lot of flack from the LGBTQIA+ community, which I really don’t understand even after watching all the specials „in question“.
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Kaamelott. You will need to kearn french first, but its totally worth it.
Bobby Lee
I got to see Todd Barry on a whim one night and I was crying laughing in my seat, his crowd work is fantastic and he was absolutely skewering the local yuppies of my town.
Way too many these days and not in a bad way.
Shane gilis and Matt mcusker mostly when they're not doing stand up. The conversations are just so perfectly stupid that it cracks me up every time.
Recently it's been Garron Noone
Adam Ray, Tony Hinchcliffe, Mark Normand, Kam Patterson, Ari Shaffir
Edit: almost forgot Shane Gillis
Alexander babu
Hajós András
Lewis Black
I haven't even heard of most of these people, I've got some stand up to watch! Thanks to all who contribute.
Mae Martin.
zoltan kaszas.
very strong on the fly and always has new material, usually relevant to wherever he's performing
Kathleen Madigan
I've never heard of any of these names in the comments here. I'm afraid to ask and it's making me very uncomfortable. I want to block OP for asking a question whose answers hurt me.
Kathleen Madigan
Greg Warren
Louis CK
Donald Trump
Chappelle
YouTuber matt rose
He just collects content from social media (mainly Twitter search results & comments under Reddit posts). His added value is narration (so that people can listen only) in a unique voice, a few sarcastic remarks and occasionally some boring skits that SponsorBlock rightfully classifies as filler. He is also apparently oblivious to Reddit’s API changes (on the day of the protest, all he stated was that he hopes content returns) and the Twitter acquisition, continuing to use both and never having used content from the Fediverse.
These content-aggregating YouTubers are a dime a dozen, and I would not even call this one a comedian.
Unless your entertainment needs are satisfied with an overly long pronunciation of “skull emojiii”.
i mentioned him on Twitter with the olny twitter account i use
1 Twitter account is too many.
i have to have a twitter account because calyxjabberserv
Norm MacDonald
The moth joke, dirty johnny, country of germany, 9/11 compilation, ManGrate, guest appearance with courtney thorne-smith on conan.
RIP.
I didn't even know he was sick.
He kept it a secret up until his final days
Louis CK, the only man in the world funny enough to un-cancel himself
Lol true. Though it helps when half of your routine is to joke about how shitty of a person you think you are, and then it turns out that’s true, and people are like “yeah that checks out”
Bill Burr
Bill burr all the way!
I don't even have to watch his full specials. I just watch him in Conans show , and it lights me up!
This fockin guy
Taylor Tomlinson
She is consistently very good, and has excellent stage presence.
Taylor's recent "Look at you" show was hilarious. The story behind that title is amazing too!
Sorry progressive and always know when I watch her stuff that I'm in for a good time.
I'll give you two, one living, one passed.
Randy Feltface is great with crowd work.
Mitch Hedberg was a genius with delivery, and even though I've seen most of his recorded work multiple times, I still laugh out loud.
I have a chance to see Randy Feltface live in December but may have to go by myself since my one standup buddy said he "can't do puppets" lol. I mean I get the puppet hate but this isn't like Jeff Dunham, Randy is actually legitimately funny to the point that you kinda forget you're looking at a puppet.
also agreed on Mitch, RIP.
Craig Ferguson is probably my number one though. His specials aren't even that great but the three times I've seen him live have been hysterical, and his Late Late Show was legendary imo, such a quick witted mind for improv.
Loved Ferguson. His books are worth a read, too.
Scrolled too far without seeing Weird Al listed. He may not do stand-up but he's absolutely a comedian, and he's been making me laugh consistently for 30 years now.
George Carlin
George, Pryor and Hedberg still take up a lot of room in my playlists.
James Acaster is the correct answer in here - he is hilariously funny and very progressive
"Can you tell us about your flapjack?"
"Started making it. Had a breakdown.
...Bon appetit."
Love Mitch and Stephen - had never heard of James Acaster but took a chance based on your list and loved him :D thanks for the rec!
Patton Oswalt. I love that nerdy little hobbit man when he really gets on a rant.
Mike Birbiglia
Nate Bargatze
Seeing him again on Saturday. Can't wait!
His childhood primed him for comedy.
Bill Hicks
Fern Brady I find always makes me laugh, it's like she's enjoying herself and just bringing everyone else along for the ride. Even in interviews I just end up really enjoying myself.
Loved her on Taskmaster. "Have I met these potatoes before?!"
Between herself, John Kearns, and Munya, that season was a goldmine for 'comedians I had never heard of before and ended up loving'.
I've never watched taskmaster you know? People keep saying I should but there's just so much of it and only so much time in the day.
Try Fern's season! You don't have to watch any of the seasons in order, they all exist in a vacuum. And it's all on YouTube! I say give S14 E1 a shot and see how you like it :)
Jim Gaffigan
The first time I saw Beyond the Pale I thought I was gonna die laughing.
Bill Burr, Eddie Izzard, Diane Morgan, James Acaster, Jimmy O Yang
German: Carolin Kebekus, Kurt Krömer, Teddy Teclebrhan, Loriot (Rest in peace)
Demetri Martin! One liners galore and fun visual "musical" comedy.
Rowan Atkinson. I'm unable to watch Mr Bean or Blackadder with a straight face. Everything he does is comedy gold.
Also the one and only Robin Williams, may he rest in peace. Watched his stand up program and spilled my drink multiple times
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starma, to name but two.
All feels like gallows humour.
Conan O'Brien. He's just effortlessly funny, especially when he's just riffing with Sona and Matt on "Conan O'Brien needs a friend".
Tig Notaro
Louis CK
Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
Tim Minchin (musician but still a comedian )
Oh, man - Tim Minchin's "Inflatable You" is amazing
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His "Thank You God" routine is a weekly play at my house. Someone is always going back and watching it again.
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Awesome song. I also love "Prejudice" which is no doubt more controversial here in the States than his native Australia. His dark and transgressive humor takes a special kind of of person to appreciate it. He's also, IMO, a musical genius, which sometimes gets lost in the distraction of humor.
side note:
I met y'all after a show at my college in the 90's. Thanks for being good humans and bringing good music to our world.
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Joe Wilkinson doesn't even have to open his mouth and I start laughing
I’m not saying you’re wrong - humour is subjective. But man, I don’t think Joe Wilkinson has made me even smile. He’s a total ruiner for me in 8 out of 10 cats.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I honestly don't get whatever he brings to the show. People really love him, so I've always thought it was just me.
The bit where he names people's penises is apparently the funniest thing ever to air on the show, and I just don't connect to it at all.
While I do find him funny, I do think that he seems to lean into one thing extremely heavily and the reaction of him is based on if you find the bit funny or not.
I never found Joe Wilkinson particularly entertaining - that was until his appearance on Taskmaster which was simply sublime.
Maria Bamford.
hysterical and a great human despite difficult circumstances
Absolutely. I saw her perform once and would see her again in a heartbeat.
Kyle Kinane
I saw him on Netflix and really enjoyed his set so I saw his live show and he delivered. Very funny guy. I am thinking of giving his podcast a chance although I have not heard of his cohost before. Do you recommend?
He's on a few podcasts at this point. The boogie monster, where he cohosts with Dave Stone. I like that one. He also has one with Shane Torres called No accounting for taste. That one I have not seen but I've seen shorts from and it seems funny.
Matteo Lane
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Brian Regan.
Joe Pera
Todd Barry
Don Rickles. Some of his stuff is very dated, but he skewers everyone... with love. 🙄
Mr. Warmth himself
Billy Connolly
Definitely Hannibal buress is on my list
Mike Birbiglia
Tom Segura, although his latest special is my least favourite one.
I agree, though the finale bit of that special had me crying with laughter
I liked Tom Segura before he started to make fun of poor and homeless people.
I feel the same about Dave Chappelle
Not stand up. David Sedaris, his life essays, not the short stories.
The Ship Shape, amiright?
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" had me audibly cackling. He's the best!
James Veitch
His story about the rubber ducks is awesome
Was he the one that had some sort of scandal recently?
Jim Jefferies' childhood friend brothel story will always crack me up.
Also Australian and a master is Luke Heggie. Very dry, and worth a listen.
Sarah Millican
And her husband Gary Delaney. If you like puns, he's the current king.
Ramesh Ramanathan
And his evil twin, Romesh Ranganathan
He was one of my partner's teachers at school, she still finds it very weird when she sees him on TV.
I had no idea he was a teacher before this lol
This year I discovered Norm Macdonald and I think he's now my favourite.
Theo Vonn is also hilarious, not so much his stand up but in podcasts and general conversation.
Bill Burr is great too.
Jeff Arcuri - his funniest stuff is his crowd work so he constantly has new stuff to watch.
Rodney Dangerfield.
Still the king of one liners.
Dmitri Martin has an uncanny ability to make me laugh out loud like basically no one else can.
Milton Jones. His style is basically one-liners, but he's amazing at them. If you've ever watched his appearances on Mock the Week you'll know.
I'm going with the niche german option: Jan Philip Zymny. He is a former Poetry Slammer and writes hilarious dadaistic texts. An he can also do that spontaneous together with the audience.
And of course the german comedian Thorsten Sträter.
Kyle Kinane
10 that I have enjoyed a lot:
Bruan Reagan and Norm McDonald are two of my favorites.
Stavros Halkias
The end of the supermarket episode of Joe Pera Talks With You made me laugh harder than I have ever laughed in my life.
Joe Lycett, Stewart Lee, Philomena Cunk
Cunk is a fictional character. Diane Morgan is the comedienne that plays her.
I want her to be real.
I'm sure, somewhere, she is. My guess is working in retail management.
Her series "Mandy" was even funnier than Cunk, IMO
Man that series was both hilarious and depressing.
Stewart Lee is better than all other standup combined.
Jimmy O. Yang.
Jo Koy.
There are others, but these are the most recent I've watched.
My personal favourite is Jon Richardson.
That guy that's always drinking whiskey
"I'm Doug Stanhope, and that's why I drink"?
did you mean Ron White?
that guy is hysterical
Yup that's the guy! Yeah he is funny af
Ross Nobel has a surrealist ability beyond all others, delivered in a geordie accent makes it perfect.
TOHblerone
Lee Mack
Joke answer: Peter Molyneux
Serious answer: The sadly now retired Eckart von Hirschhausen, who does comedy mostly about health and medical topics.
lol what Peter Molyneux did? I know he's a videogame designer, but I'm out of the loop
Yeah he never fails to make me laugh. 😅
Taylor Tomlinson, Matteo Lane
Chris Estrada. His TV show This Fool is one of the best things to watch, it's SO good.
Also Maria Bamford is a riot.
Frankie Boyle
Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias
Patton Oswalt and Michelle Buteau. Kind of an odd pairing considering their comedy is very different, but they both make me regularly wheeze laugh.
Michael McIntyre
And generally any comedian doing a bit about raising kids.
Michael MacIntyre is the comedic equivalent of beige wallpaper
Parenthood is a bit like beige wallpaper, though; you have to be able to find the funny in it or you’ll cry every day.
Beige wallpaper is still great though even if it doesnt make many people double take in amazement.
He may not be the most challenging comedian ever but he does observational stand up at the absolute top tier.
It's broad, it's over the top, but it's still brilliant. Similar to Peter Kay really.
In my opinion anyway, there aren't many things that are as subjective as comedy so to each their own!)
Greg Warren
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Chappelle really is the goat of stand up. Bill Burr is always fucking funny. Shane Gillis is pretty funny. Nikki Glaser is hilarious too.
never understood the hate he gets. I saw that special he did and I really didn't see anything disturbing.
I named 4 comedians, only 3 were male but I'm not entirely sure who you're referring to.
The world has become a sensitive weak place
I'm guessing Chapelle. Who was great back in the day. The new stuff? Ehhh. He is less funny and seems out of touch to me, like when he brought Musk on stage, and then proceeded to riff on his own audience for booing
First time I hear about the musk thing but it sounds tricky, yes. He got a lot of flack from the LGBTQIA+ community, which I really don’t understand even after watching all the specials „in question“.
Ron White
You mean Ron “Tater Salad” White ?
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Kaamelott. You will need to kearn french first, but its totally worth it.
Bobby Lee
I got to see Todd Barry on a whim one night and I was crying laughing in my seat, his crowd work is fantastic and he was absolutely skewering the local yuppies of my town.
Way too many these days and not in a bad way.
Shane gilis and Matt mcusker mostly when they're not doing stand up. The conversations are just so perfectly stupid that it cracks me up every time.
Recently it's been Garron Noone
Adam Ray, Tony Hinchcliffe, Mark Normand, Kam Patterson, Ari Shaffir
Edit: almost forgot Shane Gillis
Alexander babu
Hajós András
Lewis Black
I haven't even heard of most of these people, I've got some stand up to watch! Thanks to all who contribute.
Mae Martin.
zoltan kaszas.
very strong on the fly and always has new material, usually relevant to wherever he's performing
Kathleen Madigan
I've never heard of any of these names in the comments here. I'm afraid to ask and it's making me very uncomfortable. I want to block OP for asking a question whose answers hurt me.
Kathleen Madigan Greg Warren Louis CK
Donald Trump
Chappelle
YouTuber matt rose
He just collects content from social media (mainly Twitter search results & comments under Reddit posts). His added value is narration (so that people can listen only) in a unique voice, a few sarcastic remarks and occasionally some boring skits that SponsorBlock rightfully classifies as filler. He is also apparently oblivious to Reddit’s API changes (on the day of the protest, all he stated was that he hopes content returns) and the Twitter acquisition, continuing to use both and never having used content from the Fediverse.
These content-aggregating YouTubers are a dime a dozen, and I would not even call this one a comedian.
Unless your entertainment needs are satisfied with an overly long pronunciation of “skull emojiii”.
i mentioned him on Twitter with the olny twitter account i use
1 Twitter account is too many.
i have to have a twitter account because calyxjabberserv