Who's your Comedian of the moment?

[MoeFOH]

Whether it be a new comic on the block or one you're just discovering... who's the best active comedian in the business right now? 🤔

Post up some highlights of their stuff 

[MoeFOH]

I'm late to the Nate party, but this guy's killing me right now... 

 

 

[Low]

Shane Gillis is by far my favorite comedian at the moment. His special on Netflix, Beautiful Dogs, is an incredibly easy 50 minute watch.

[Pmo13]

Bargatze is a great suggestion. I would also nominate Dan Soder for very similar humor/delivery. His show in Boston was one of the last things I went to with my wife before covid hit, and I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder.

[Ptowncigar]

1 hour ago, Low said:

Shane Gillis is by far my favorite comedian at the moment. His special on Netflix, Beautiful Dogs, is an incredibly easy 50 minute watch.

Absolutely! Gillis has me rolling with his Trump material.  

[BlueWS]

I'm curious what Aussies think of Jim Jefferies? He's in my top five and Dave Chappelle rules them all.

[El Presidente]

1 hour ago, BlueWS said:

I'm curious what Aussies think of Jim Jefferies? He's in my top five and Dave Chappelle rules them all.

Jim is a classic Oz comedian. No holds barred. 

I am still amazed he found a US audience without being outright cancelled. 

[El Presidente]

Still Bill Burr for me. 

One of the great monologues. 

 

 

[BlueWS]

Comedy, one of the last bastions of free speech over here in the US! Even with cancel culture, which hopefully is nearly dead. We love Jim Jefferies.

[Li Bai]

2 hours ago, El Presidente said:

Still Bill Burr for me. 

One of the great monologues. 

I was gonna say Bill Burr too !

Ronnie Chieng is also hilarious and another one, maybe less popular but suggested by Bill Burr himself is Brian Holtzman. The man has some guts 👌

[chasy]

Really incredible what YouTube, Podcasting and social media in general have done for Stand Up, specifically.

I'm not a huge fan of social media as I think there are many negatives, but it has massively leveled the playing field. Particularly YouTube, which is longer format.

Podcasting has created an opportunity for comedians to have another, more predictable source of income in addition to playing gigs and the occasional movie role.

I think no coincidence that we’re seeing a resurgence.

[Cigar Surgeon]

 

[Slayer]

Sheng Wang's Netflix Special a sleeper hit for me.

Present Active Comdians for me: Chapelle and Bill Burr, always. Taylor Tomlinson definately coming in hot, but I feel she's not paid her dues (way too good, way too soon I suppose, but that's my own problem)

 

Nate Bargatze and Tom Segura occupy similar spaces for me, always enjoyable to watch, will check out if a new special drops, but feel they are pretty similar to the last one (albeit very good specials).

 

[Namisgr11]

Several of my favorites have already been mentioned.  One who hasn't yet is Ali Wong.

 

[Goodfortune]

Saw Sebastian Maniscalco perform in Vegas. Hadn’t laughed that hard in quite some time. Russell Peters goes under the radar a bit, but has some great stuff.

[Li Bai]

Anthony Jeselnik is quite funny too in his own way! 

[Ken Gargett]

On 2/16/2024 at 1:15 PM, BlueWS said:

I'm curious what Aussies think of Jim Jefferies? He's in my top five and Dave Chappelle rules them all.

i must say i was going to refer to jim jefferies and in particular his most famous piece - still utter gold - but i thought that the link for that might get me thrown off. 

personally, hard to go past any parliament at the moment. comedy gold. if only they knew how funny they were. 

[eaglebear29]

On 2/16/2024 at 3:38 PM, El Presidente said:

Still Bill Burr for me. 

One of the great monologues. 

One of my all time favorites as he matches our vulgar sailor humor up here in Ak. He's got many great "underground" old skits and mashups on YouTube.

On 2/16/2024 at 5:31 PM, Li Bai said:

I was gonna say Bill Burr too !

Ronnie Chieng is also hilarious and another one, maybe less popular but suggested by Bill Burr himself is Brian Holtzman. The man has some guts 👌

If you haven't already seen it, check out his F is for Family on Netflix. Some more dark funny humor.

I also love Dave Chapelle and the old Chapelle Show. I was stoked they let him take over SNL for a little and it was basically a little version of the ol' Chapelle Show skits sometimes, SNL has kinda fell off, was better with the classics back in the day imo with Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, and David Spade. I enjoyed his new stand ups, and still hold out hope for a return of the show, or something akin to it.

Another guy that's pretty dark and used to crack me up, that I haven't seen in awhile, is Anthony Jeselnick, its all about his timing

I still enjoy watching old videos of George Carlin, his videos have aged very well 😆 this guy still cracks me up.

 

[Chitmo]

On 2/16/2024 at 3:38 PM, El Presidente said:

Still Bill Burr for me. 

One of the great monologues. 

+1 for Bill, he’s my kind of offensive! 😂 

[Cigarsmoker81]

I like Dave Chapelle, Ricky Gervais, Gad Elmelah and Jimmy Carr. Eddie Murphy classic standups are always funny, 

[cnov]

Really enjoying Norm MacDonald at the moment.

I got his book off the back of a recommendation on here and it's hilarious.

[MrBirdman]

On 2/17/2024 at 12:34 PM, Namisgr11 said:

Several of my favorites have already been mentioned.  One who hasn't yet is Ali Wong.

She was really excellent in Beef (the acting in general was top-notch). One of the best new shows in years. 

18 hours ago, eaglebear29 said:

still enjoy watching old videos of George Carlin,

Carlin remains at the top of the mountain. Comedy’s great genius and a voice that’s needed now more than ever. 

[eaglebear29]

11 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

Carlin remains at the top of the mountain. Comedy’s great genius and voice that’s needed now more than ever. 

Couldn't agree more, his comedy if anything, is even better now for today. Imagine his stand up now if he was still around. It would be epic! 

[Ken Gargett]

are we missing one of the all time greats? 

kerry o'keeffe. former aussie cricketer and now commentator.

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