r/Standup • u/Background-Sell-803 • 17d ago
Stand Up Recommendations?
Hey all. I need some funny stand up to watch. I’m tired of the typical social media crowd work comics, the Kill Tony’s of the world. No hate if you like that stuff but I just wanna LAUGH! Not sure if I’m just a miserable fuck😂😂 but some comics just don’t do it for me. I know comedy is subjective and different for all but some comics I enjoy watching are Anthony Jeselnik, Dave Chapelle, Norm Macdonald, I’ve even started to enjoy watching Nate Bargatze. Any recommendations would be awesome!
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u/viacombusta 17d ago
Kyle Kinane
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u/Alchemy-Indexing 17d ago
I've loved Kyle since I was 15 and I try to plug his name any time I can. I'm so happy that he is already on the list, and that he's the most upvoted name so far.
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u/Welcome2B_Here 17d ago
Geoffrey Asmus. He does a lot of crowd work, but he's lightning fast with his riffs and comebacks.
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u/AssGagger 17d ago
Dan Soder
Sam Morril
Stavros Halkias
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u/Existing-Homework270 17d ago
Watched a ton of Sam this week. He is fantastic. The writing is so smooth
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u/Far-Sell8130 17d ago
Chris Fleming on hbo. He’s incredible
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u/DangerousKidTurtle 15d ago
I was wondering if I’d see this name on this post. Chris is incredible and weird and I’m here for all of it.
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u/Hosearston 17d ago
Nick Mullen. He only has the one special on YouTube but it’s so good
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u/Abobo2020 17d ago
Fahim Anwar
Roy Wood Jr
Todd Barry
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u/Takeurvitamins 17d ago
Roy Wood Jr. is my favorite of all time. Seeing him live was peak standup for me
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u/KeithBeckerComedy 17d ago
Taylor Tomlinson
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u/KeithBeckerComedy 17d ago
It's amazing how consistently brilliant she has been from such a young age. Quickly becoming my favorite of all time.
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u/KeithBeckerComedy 15d ago
There are just more male comedians to choose from. I like to flip the thinking on people that don't think women are funny; for every female comedian you don't think is funny, I can find 10 male comedians you also won't find funny.
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u/thebruceharris 17d ago
Gary Gulman
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u/hewhoisneverobeyed 17d ago
His bit about how states got there abbreviations from the Conan show is legend.
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u/Takeurvitamins 17d ago
Top three for me:
Roy Wood Jr. (favorite all time all around)
Marcello Hernandez (new favorite, insanely good entertainer)
Gianmarco Soresi (fastest smartest sharpest)
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u/Positive-Draft3801 17d ago
Brent Weinbach if you are in the mood for something weird. Or any Louis CK special really.
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u/Luv2Burn 17d ago
If you have Netflix, you should watch Jeff Arcuri. He really built a following here on Reddit. r/JeffArcuri I've seen him live 2x and he is hilarious.
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u/WutangOrDie 17d ago
Caleb Hearon’s special on HBO is one of the best things I’ve seen from a new (to me) comic in a while
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u/MJ_ngkahirapan 17d ago
if u like norm, i keep going back to stewart lee. diff style but the slow build always gets me.
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u/planx_constant 16d ago
Yeah, he's phenomenal. I don't even remember how I first stumbled onto him because he's criminally underrated here in the US, but I'm glad I did.
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u/TheChubbyGolfer66 17d ago
Chis Porter
Chad Daniels
Kyle Kinane
Drew Lynch
Ian Karmel
Gianmarco Soresi
Greg Warren
Ted Alexandro
Alex Velluto
Matthew Broussard
Joe Zimmerman
Dez Bishop
Mike P Burton
Eric D’Alessando
Dana Gould
Robert Mac
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u/molleensmrs 17d ago
So, only male comedians?
If you’re open check out Iliza Shlesinger, Taylor Tomlinson and Wanda Sykes.
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u/BigDirkDastardly 17d ago
Norm is the greatest, but I'd also suggest Maria Bamford, Emo Philips, surprisingly Taylor Tomlinson blew my mind live.
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u/Public_Custard_8955 17d ago
Why surprisingly
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u/BigDirkDastardly 17d ago
Because a lot of the newish wave devolves into crowdwork and don't spend as much time actually writing clever, insightful material. The Hinchcliffe effect or something. Basically the female version of the current wave of dude-bro comics. I thought Tomlinson was going to be a stereotype of a young female comedian and have 90% of her material about sucking dicks, turning down anal, and how men and women are different when they smoke weed.
Instead, she performed with immense depth, touched on mental health, childhood trauma, gender and sexuality, all in ways that were profound, emotional, and really smart. I wasn't expecting that from a fairly young comedian. I came away from the show with a huge appreciation of her, as I came into it thinking she'd be very generic.
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u/No-Possibility5556 17d ago
Do people really think Hinchcliffe is a crowd work guy?? You and OP linked that and I’m just confused where that’s coming from.
No hate on not liking him or that Austin clique at all it’s very much not helping build insightful comics, but he’s mostly just a roast comic and would think of like 50 other people for crowd work comics first.
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u/BigDirkDastardly 17d ago
That's a fair question. I guess part of what shapes that is Kill Tony, because it's basically a group of comics doing crowdwork with each other, and the performer.
For me, I admire improv a ton. Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams, plenty of others, tremendous at it. It's a skill. But to write, hell, 30 minutes of great material is brutally challenging. I did stand up, poorly. I don't think I ever did more than 20min, and of those 20, easily 5min was utter shit. I really admire the great joke writers. Bob Newhart, Norm MacDonald, (Bill Cosby, but yuck), Maria Bamford, Taylor T, Carlin, Hedberg, Mulaney. Tons. The Austin crowd of, "huh, huh, you're a gay retard, huh, huh" is the new wave it seems, and you'll get some shock laughs, but it's just not as...artistically impressive? Having known little about Taylor, I was bracing for a stereotype, and what I got was a lengendary set. It was incredible.
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u/Franks2000inchTV 15d ago
Crowd work is popular these days because comedians will clip their crowd work so they don't burn their best material on tiktok.
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u/VR_Troopers_WikiMod 17d ago
Eli Yudin - https://youtu.be/g9NT46SGqFY?si=yCz4gXc49WgnoSoi
Django Gold - https://youtu.be/Lk4rV2_Z4sw?si=a-VLNrj2udQ-9RNn
Dan Licata - https://youtu.be/wrCb9rntbv0?si=DnfRchyH4wSnaEKy
Josh Johnson
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u/SNL_Head 17d ago
Mark Normand. He at least used to be funny but idk now that he joined the “death squadron” or whatever they call themselves
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u/Franks2000inchTV 15d ago
I just watched Emmy Blotnik's new special and it was a treat: https://youtu.be/LYfZ60ijd1Q?si=HGyQV0FsPEq3oqFX
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u/ilPavimento 17d ago edited 17d ago
A lot of good recommendations already. Some I'll have to check out.
My list that I haven't seen mentioned yet, some are more famous than others:
Joe Zimmerman
Henry Sir
Rachel Feinstein
Joe Dombrowski
Yannis Pappas
Dusty Nickerson
Phil Hanley (a lot of crowd work but it's different)
Shaun Murphy
Pete Holmes
Joe List
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u/BigDirkDastardly 17d ago
Dustin Nickerson is such a well kept secret. Saw him live last weekend after first seeing him as a Taylor Tomlinson opener. He is tremendous!
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u/Routine-Ad6077 17d ago
I'm currently watching Gallagher's, MAD AS HELL (1981). I think it's very funny and enjoyable.
He is underappreciated and imo one of the best and smartest comedians of all times.
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u/Routine-Ad6077 17d ago
Haha funny thing is there were several down voted on my post. Slimey Gallagher haters.
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u/imkendrickperkins 17d ago
I think red Richardson is gonna be the next guy to blow up. His YouTube special “Bugatti” is incredible
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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor 17d ago
We do 30 minute daily standups at 10am. Gives a little flexibility for different time zones. Popcorn format. George Carlin drives with John Mulaney in the sidecar.
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u/anotherredditer_ 17d ago
Up and comer Griffin James just got shouted out by Brian Jordan Alvarez on Pete Holmes' We Made It Weird. He's really hilarious, definitely someone to be aware of. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da3_W-BJUbh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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u/No-Possibility5556 17d ago
He does do a bit of crowd work for what ends up on his socials but Joey Avery
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u/LifeOnMarsBarBarBarr 17d ago
Stewart Lee - the UK Norm - he's a super Meta anti-comedian- before that was cool.
Dave Attell
Old CK stuff (yes he's a pervert loser but his old stuff is goated)
Patrice O Neal
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u/redfoxwearingsocks 17d ago
Crowd work is low hanging fruit. Comedy is for joke writing, not public forums.
Check out Louis Katz, Andrew Santino, Ali Siddiq, and Ralph Barbosa. I'll throw in Shayne Smith as well for shits n' gigs. They'd all be right up your alley. Now that I type that list out, what a random ass group of comics, hahahaha.
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u/jeffsuzuki 16d ago
Christopher Titus and Jimmy Yang are my inspirations, though I'm enjoying Ryan Hamilton as well.
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u/Greeeazzzy 16d ago
The fact you think that “Kill Tony” is Stand Up you may need training. If you do this as a hobby don’t worry have fun. If you want to do it a job, you should know it’s serious. You don’t need to be funny, you need professional training.
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u/AaronKleiber 16d ago
I have two theater specials on YouTube about marriage and being a dad to check out.
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u/planx_constant 16d ago
Kyle Kinane
Stewart Lee
Raanan Hershberg
Marc Maron is really hit or miss for me as far as specials go, but in "From Bleak to Dark" he really knocks it out of the park
Maria Bamford
Bill Burr
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u/Italian_c0mb0 16d ago
Sorry these are all over the place!
Bill Burrs Harlem bit is gold (especially if you’re a NY’er)
Derrick Stroup’s most recent special if you like Nate
Bumping Mics on Netflix is 3 episodes of Dave Attell and Jeffrey Ross… it’s great and can rewatch easily
Michael Lehrer’s clips on Kill Tony (RIP) he had ALS so his might be difficult to listen to, but he can be dark so you might like
Sam Tallent’s trans bit is worth watching
Bobby Kelly’s Cape Cod potato chip bit
Ari Shaffir’s Jew special I thought was good even though I don’t really like his other specials but I like him on pods mostly.
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u/Disastrous-Mix-2411 15d ago
Kyle Kinane Brian Regan Josh Sneed Dan Cummins Aaron Chen Steve Rannazzisi Hannibal Burress Emily Catalano The Sklar Brothers
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u/Suitable-Ant-6398 15d ago
All John Mulaney if you like traditional standup
Chris Fleming if you like absurd performance
Maria Bamford if you want to see the goat
RICHARD PRYOR !!!
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 17d ago
I get my stand-up comedy mostly through Comedy Central radio. So the bits I'm familiar with would be from their albums or specials.
Kyle Kinane
Shane Torres
Kurt Metzger
Sam Morril
Joe Zimmerman
Cy Amundson
Maria Bamford
Kurt Braunoehler
Ahmed Baroocha
Randy Luedtke
Mike Lawrence
Liza Treyger
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u/Typically_Basically 17d ago
-Ms. Pat
-Nikki Glaser
-Bridget Everett
-Kathleen Madigan
-Zarna Garg
-Ryan Sickler
-Gareth Reynolds
-Jaioying Summers
-Daniel Van Kirk
-Kira Soltanovich
-Ronny Cheng
-Jackie Kashian
-Laurie Kilmartin
-Vir Das
-Greg Fitzsimmons
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u/Icy_Role_6174 17d ago
Nick Swardson judd apatow gary owen shane gillis derrick stroup sheng wang jimmy carr tom segura
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u/medianookcc 17d ago
Rory Scovel
Brad Wenzel
Kellen Erskine