James Acaster has a good 4 part comedy special. Jeff Arcuri is pretty active on YouTube and instagram
Ya I’ve seen Jeff Arcuri. He’s great but I’ve only seen his shorts. Does he have long form stuff online?
Josh Johnson. https://youtube.com/@joshjohnsoncomedy
Bill Hick’s Rant in E Minor
George Carlin
Mitch Hedberg
Bill Burr
Wanda Sykes
Personally, as much as I loved Bill Hicks at the time, and he died far too young, I don't think his material has aged well. The level of corruption he was railing against just seems cute these days.
“I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.” - Bill Hicks
Mitch Hedburg is a legend. No one has ever had a comedic style like he had. He was taken from us way too young.
Jimmy Carr
Fern Brady
Aisling Bea
Fiona Cauley
Lewis Black
Taylor Tomlinson
Jimmy Carr
Fern Brady
Starting off on the gentle stuff there.
Kevin Bridges' older stuff is world class too. Haven't seen him recently
Josh Johnson has been coming up
Kill Tony, sometimes the jokes are good and the interviews can be good when they aren't.
Anthony Jeselnek, if you like dark humor.
Older Amy Schumer, if you like dark humor, newer Amy Schumer if you have a liberal arts sense of humor.
Kam Patterson, if you like black humor, rocks, and hood shit
Randy Feltface, if you like puppet humor and Australian accents.
Jeff Dunham, if you like puppet humor and stereotypes.
Casey Rocket, if you like stupid irreverent brilliant insanity.
Bo Burnham, if you like brilliant poignant commentary of a jester mocking himself and society.
Theo Von, if you like redneck humor.
Ron White, if you like alcoholic redneck humor.
I'm amazed no one has mentioned Susie/Eddie Izzard yet. Their sets are rather old at this point so I shouldn't be too surprised, but they are all great and I highly recommend them, especially if you are into history at all.
Randy Feltface
Because all the usual comedians people mention here are toxic as fuck or have a lot of racism sexism or fucking assholes "comedy" styles.
Here's one of my favorites that I haven't seen ever to have any of the "make fun of minorities" jokes.
https://www.ashleygavin.tours/america
Ashley Gavin is also on TikTok and YouTube. One of the very few stand up comedians who is funny buy NOT making fun of disabled/trans/disenfranchised/etc people
Shane Gillis
Ismo Leikola
I think his international name is just ”Ismo”
George Carlin. Start with Class Clown, it's more approachable than his later stuff but once you get him you can pick up anything.
Check out the YouTube channel 'Don't Tell Comedy's some pretty funny comedians on there. My favorite is JC Currais: https://youtu.be/3A4TLB7pDm4?si=ppY5EzsxrbZsLVWk
Ha! I came to post this! I've LMAO'd at every comedian I've seen on that channel!
I first watched JCs standup about edibles while I happened to be high off edibles, lol. LMFAO. Dude always makes me laugh.
More Trevor Noah please.
What are some of your current favorites?
Can I get some love for Stewart Lee?
He's a genius and so am I because I like him.
If you have Netflix Sweet and Juicy featuring Sheng Wang, or Good Deal from Jimmy O. Yang on Amazon Prime.
Sheng Wang is hilarious, I think his humor would align well with a lot of people here. He has a special on Netflix worth checking out
If you're Midwestern: https://youtu.be/_wEzagimGjc
Also, not Midwestern, but Taylor Tomlinson
I'm a big fan of both Jon Richardson and Joe Lycett.
Representing Scotland here with suggestions of Billy Connolly and Kevin Bridges.
Jim Jeffries kills me with this bit. First time I saw it, I was crying with laughter...
Jimeoin. Northern Irish comedian.
I've recently started to like the sarcasm of Lisa Eckhart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPKN_HfKQg
Norm MacDonald has some great bits
Mike Birbiglia, Kumail Nanjiani, and Patton Oswalt are three recentish faves of mine
Not standup, but a comedy improv group: shoot from the hip.
They have a lot of stuff on youtube
There was a thread on !AskUSA@discuss.online on that topic recently
Alex Edelman: Just for Us (2024). It’s well constructed, original, and makes a statement.
I gigged with Alex Edelman, he's a nice dude.
If you want the opposite of funny, anything recent by Roseanne Barr is the unfunniest drivel to ever be generously called standup. It’s like watching an angry boomer rage against everything that’s changed since they were a bigoted little shit, because that’s exactly what it is. If you’re also an angry boomer who hates everyone younger and/or smarter than you, you’ll probably like it.
Good Lord, zero akaash Singh mention. Lemme fix that.
Here's a Teaser for you.
And yes, he's racist AF, and I'm here for it.
Roy Wood Jr. is hilarious and so is Hannibal Buress, pretty much anything from them is great.
Stavros Halkias has good specials, just don't go near the crowd work (but that's pretty much every comic).
Aamer Rahman is great and he just came out from hiatus, check his older stuff first and see if you like it.
Michael Che has good stand up too, even if you know him from SNL and don't like his stuff there.
Two of my favorites are Kyle Kinaine and Dave Stone
The randomness of python packaging attempts. Recommend reading the source code of Chimera Linux. How to build a distro and write everything as a script.
And any recent dramas bad reviews on imdb. Forget about watching the videos, the reviews are priceless
