What stand up would you recommend?

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.

https://youtu.be/qHYRjco2aTc?si=R1T3xOgKK17U0zOb

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

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLuYADJ6hESLHX87JnsGbjA

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

Edit: https://youtu.be/UVSnc9xSYoY?si=ku4mf2I0Ca2qZQE1

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

The US government

Great entertainers.
Are we not entertained?
- This episode was boring. Next episode is going to suckkk

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...

https://youtu.be/XsLwzXxeBe8?si=5RT1LkXY5N0rxXGo

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

https://lemmy.world/post/23097298

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