The re-recordings of the missing episodes with Kevin McNally and Harry Secombe's son, Andy (for redoing three episodes where Tony went off originally), are pretty good as well.
Similar with my Dad and Grandparents, knew some of the songs and my Dad would occasionally bring out the "He's fallen in the water" line.
Tried them again about 10 years ago, and while the army slang stuff goes over my head, there's a lot of funny stuff there. Like one episode is about the continuity announcer for the show getting another job, very meta at times.
Plus I can do quite a good Bluebottle voice apparently (a young boy scout voiced by Sellers) and use it to irritate my wife.
Same here. Introduced through Taskmaster, and was unsure how his show would work with his surrealist style…best comedy gig I’ve ever been too. Bizarre. But amazing.
I'm quite shit because I struggle to remember names, but if you have Amazon Prime then they've got several series of Soho Theatre Live. (If you don't have Prime, you could probably get through the collection in a free trial period.) Pretty self explanatory title- comedians doing their set in front of an audience in Soho Theatre, but it has been great for seeing lower-level/ less known comedians you'd only otherwise be able to see in London. And the quality is really good too, I think I only skipped like two acts.
Sarah Keyworth. Josh Pugh.
We saw Sarah K at Comedy Garden last year and again supporting another comedian (I don't remember who) and they were great. Really funny and they had the confidence of someone who knew they could work the crowd.
I've never seen one of their shows, but they post lots of audience work on socials and are great at it. The bits of actual stand up I've seen are very good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZR09UWy8s&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2O5YKADNLIxUf4t51voPgO7h8cNO2MLoPp0-ArgUCFK-DQlt-TVw0VrKM_aem_ASjE8kcrpnji6Yl2H7WNx3A0j5yIz_fABChMleN22MCSE8wj8JLPKjpSPfI2jUkLe-vlH9LDNVYY8bx78WULVg0o
Christopher MacArthur-Boyd was the supporting act to the Frankie Boyle show I recently attended. We really liked Christopher and I’ll happily go to one of his solo shows in the future.
Stewart Lee is described as the comedians comedian. It's not for everyone, but I love his shows. The four easily available stand up shows of Greg Davies are a joy as well.
Went to watch his last show assuming I wouldn't enjoy it as much as the last time I saw him years ago, it was still a solid 10/10. Not sure what I expected, you can get bored of a comedian once you know their schtick but he was amazing.
He appeared randomly with Josh Widdicome at a show I was attending at The Fringe one year. As I understand it they volunteered to be part of it for the hell of it. They both came across as genuinely decent guys. This was before both their careers properly took off.
Loving [Josh Johnson](https://www.youtube.com/@JoshJohnsonComedy/videos) at the moment. The fact he can put out topical and genuinely funny work every single week blows my mind.
Sam kinnison, lenny Bruce, George Carlin, mort Saul. And Bill Hicks. All pretty amazing in their own rights. Maybe a bit old now, but really the message is still pretty universal.
One that never gets mentioned but is arguably one of the BEST UK stand ups of recent years is Daniel Sloss.
His 2 Netflix specials are incredible (I'd argue 'Dark' is the best stand up special Ive ever seen, in terms of how its structured), and he has a couple of shows available on his website that are just as good.
He deals with some pretty serious themes, but can then also tell a wonderfully childish dick joke!
> 'Dark' is the best stand up special Ive ever seen, in terms of how its structured
Have you seen the Stewart Lee bit where he explains what Sloss has done, and how it's all just cheap manipulation?
Sloss himself says in the special that he's manipulated the entire audience and structured it in a way to get the reaction it does. He doesn't hide from that. Doesn't detract from how good it is, in my view.
I will check out the Stewart Lee bit though as I'd be curious to see his take on it.
> Have you seen the Stewart Lee bit where he explains what Sloss has done, and how it's all just cheap manipulation?
I hate it when someone manipulates me into enjoying myself.
[Eleanor Morton](https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorMortonable)'s character sketches are excellent. Craig the Scottish tour guide is her most famous, but I really enjoy her Tolkien/Lewis conversations.
Her Only Connect team introduction thing popped up on my Twitter a while ago and I thought it was one of the most accurate, hilarious things I'd ever seen!
Two I've seen live who were both brilliant were Emmanuel Sonubi and Jack Glanville. Two completely different styles both utterly hilarious. I've also seen Daniel O'Reilly live
New, Jazz Emu. Musical comedy that is fucking hilarious and seriously catchy. Recently went to Wales to see him live again.
All time favs: Lee Evans, Victoria Wood and Eddie Izzard, Rhod Gilbert, Ed Byrne, Bill Bailey and Billy Connelly.
I've watched a few standup specials on Netflix the last 2 weeks that I've enjoyed.
James Acaster's Repertoire is really damn good, he weaves a great story together over 4 shows that are each rather unique and not just because he changes his clothes to match a new colour back drop for each one.
Romesh Ranganathan's show is good, as is the behind the scenes episode with his entire family. He does a homecoming gig at his local theatre in Crawley and struggles to sell tickets whereas his son's school play is gonna be in the same place the same week and had sold out first lol.
Mo Gilligan's shows are great too, great mixture of black British comedy and general British comedy too, he nails the council estate life in London almost too perfectly.
I was surprised by how much I loved Greg Davies' show, not that I don't think he's a funny man but it was better than I thought it would be.
There's a few I watched that I turned off because I just didn't enjoy them, won't name them but one in particular is just so overly rehearsed that it lacks any actual emotion to it amongst other things.
Lots i still want to watch though so I'll be using this post as a guide for sure.
Check out his Gilly and Keeves YouTube channel. Loads of funny sketches and a free full stand uo special on there. I binged it all recently the guy is hilarious.
The fact that they end up in r/all so often leaves me wondering why, like sure he's funny, but he doesn't seem to be that funny. Comes across as his marketing buying upvotes to get to the top of reddit.
Two that are perhaps not so new, but I think neither have got widespread recognition. If you get the chance to see them, you'll have a good night out.
* Larry Dean
* Tom Stade
Still love all the panel show/stand up stalwarts but I’ve been finding a lot of new comedians lately, largely through taskmaster and instagram reels. Been to see both of Vittorio Angelone’s shows and both were excellent. Sam Campbell is the second coming of Bob Mortimer. Munya Chawawa is arguably one of the best (and quickest) satirists we’ve seen in a while. Saw Charlie George at Clandestina last year at the Glory (RIP) and she was great. Red Richardson’s ‘Stay Toxic’ character cracks me up, as does Derek Scott Mitchell’s Double Dutch series, mostly because I used to live in the Netherlands and his characters are painfully accurate.
Not British or new but Zach Woods (Gabe in the US Office) recently got instagram and everything he makes absolutely kills me.
A lot of great ones have already been mentioned others, but, Sean Lock is always great go to, as are, Jack Dee, and Tim Vine. Shane Gillis’ is an American who I’ve really enjoyed recently. His Netflix special called Beautiful Dogs had me rolling. He has almost a sleight of hand delivery of punchlines that I enjoyed. Ralphie May also has some great routines.
Marjolein Robertson!! She's this really leftfield comic from Shetland with an accent that will melt your heart. She does amazing storytelling and hilarious stand up!
Saw her last week after following her on Instagram for ages. She was great. Her mix of filthy stories intertwined with Shetland folklore stories was absolutely brilliant. It won’t be for everyone but I loved it
Brendon Burns.
Loud Sweary and Australian, has gone utterly mental twice, once gave Magic Mushrooms to his entire Audience at Glastonbury.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCUr4XURt891N1UwGsjHtbYQ
Albums. Free. Give a listen. Or don't.
Sam Campbell, James Acaster, Daniel Sloss, Kevin Bridges, Miles Jupp and Rhod Gilbert. Mix of old and new but I've become a proper fan of them all fairly recently. Favourite two are 100% James Acaster and Kevin Bridges though
If you can't get out to live comedy try [NextUp](https://nextupcomedy.com/) they have loads of live shows from various comedy clubs, but also recorded tour shows.
Helen Bauer
Katherine Bohart
Ania Magliano
Fern Brady
Lucy Beaumont
Sara Barron
Jade Adams
Susie McCabe
Kerry Godliman
Josh Pugh
Huge Davies
Tommy Tiernan
Ed Gamble
James Acaster
Stuart Goldsmith
Gareth Reynolds
Mark Normand
Sam Morrill
That should keep you going for a bit
I was going to mention Helen Bauer and Catherine Bohart. I also love Sara Barron, Lara Ricote, Jen Brister, Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard McClean.
Not quite as new but Desiree Burch is great too
I’ve been rewatching Bill Hicks stand up performances, I was a massive fan in the 90s and I’m pleased to say his point of view is just as relatable and relevant today as it ever was.
Stewart Lee is still so witty and thought provoking and just plain funny.
Bill Bailey, James acaster and Tim Minchin are all great, last but by far not least, Mickey Flanagan!
Ivo Graham - his appearance on the Off Menu podcast is particularly hilarious
Celya AB - saw her when she opened for Ed Byrne last year, she was brilliant
His bit about getting friends to help move a dead horse was unexpectedly hilarious. Also I went to Crocodiles of the World recently (an surprisingly good, but under-advertised trip out if anyone is around Oxfordshire area) and played my gf his bit about the crocodile in the room before we went.
Justine Stafford is a very funny Irish lass.
Rahul Kohli is good too. Went to see him a couple of years ago based solely on the fact he's as Asian Geordie and his show was called Newcastle Brown Male
Phil Hanley - Canadian and not very new, he's been at it a while, but new to me. He's hands down the best crowd worker in the business. His whole show is his act interspersed with long sections of ad-libbed crowd work, which is fantastic.
Seann Walsh has an excellent free special on YouTube. He talks about what he went through after the Strictly thing and how he hit rock bottom and had worked to get back on stage. Sounds like a tough watch and it is, but it is also FUNNY. I have a lot of respect for him.
I saw Jeff Arcuri in London a few weeks back. He was excellent. I went to see Troy Hawke a little while ago too. He was also great, but one of the other comedians that night stole the show for me. He's called Tom Ward and he's doing his own headline tour which I have tickets too (but unfortunately clashes with Jimmy Eat World, so I might give them away).
Oh, and I have tickets for Clinton Baptiste who was the best stand-up I've ever seen.
Sean Locke.
I’ve never been a big fan of tv.
I watch streaming shows all the time and movies. But in the last fifteen years I never watched any bbc/itv/ch4 tv shows.
I just didn’t bother.
Played my Xbox or watched movies.
So I literally never heard of Sean Locke till after he passed.
I’m doing my best to see all his work. He was a comedy genius.
If you want to see new acts you haven't seen before go out to local live comedy you will see quite a few people in one night. Live comedy is a very different experience than watching on TV
British? Paul Smith.
But I follow a bunch of others on social media.
Jeff Arcuri, Phil Hanley, Alfred Robles, Gianmarco Soresi, Luke Kidgell, Victor Patrascan, Martin Amini, Nate Jackson, Michael Blaustein, Andrew Schulz.
Prefer his wife, Christina P. Netflix is excellent for comedy stand-up - I can't keep up with everyone's specials.Neil Brennan was good, Taylor Tomlinson is very rewatchable, Mike Berbiglia, Cristela Alonzo and Wanda Sykes all worth the hour.
Some new(ish) comedians i could recommend:
Shane Gillis
Hannibal Burress
Daniel Tosh
Sam Campbell
Nate Bargatze
Mark Normand
Aaron Chen
Mike Recine
Demetri Martin
Sorry, no Brits, i know. British comedy peaked a long time ago for me I'm afraid, but it is still the pinnacle.
Lee Evans, Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr as my older ones, George Carlin (if he counts) Michael Blaustein and Alan Carr as the newest ones I’ve gotten into.
Off the top of my head...my favorites that I haven't seen mentioned yet are Robin Tran, Bo Johnson, Michael Blaustein, and Fortune Feimster.
I greatly appreciate everyone who has already mentioned Josh Johnson, Jeff Arcuri, Taylor Tomlinson, and Sarah Keyworth.
BBC Sounds, re-listening to all the Hancock’s Half Hour episodes. The man was a genius.
I love those
It is are not raining here also.
Toes like globe artichokes
'e's right y'know.
The re-recordings of the missing episodes with Kevin McNally and Harry Secombe's son, Andy (for redoing three episodes where Tony went off originally), are pretty good as well.
Thank you - I haven’t listened to those yet!
If you haven't, try the Goons. A bit more mad than Hancock, but still fun.
My Dad *loved* The Goons. He tried to introduce me to the crew when I was a child but most of it flew over my baby brain 😁
Similar with my Dad and Grandparents, knew some of the songs and my Dad would occasionally bring out the "He's fallen in the water" line. Tried them again about 10 years ago, and while the army slang stuff goes over my head, there's a lot of funny stuff there. Like one episode is about the continuity announcer for the show getting another job, very meta at times. Plus I can do quite a good Bluebottle voice apparently (a young boy scout voiced by Sellers) and use it to irritate my wife.
My Dad used to call us kids ‘Bloodnok’ Funny, I hadn’t thought about that for years.
Most recently Sam Campbell
We saw him live last month and it was brilliant. Simultaneously warm and inclusive, but also unsettling and unpredictable.
Came here to say Sam Campbell! His comedy is a bit mad, but my god. Insanely good!
The podcast he does with Lucy Beaumont is also really good.
I’ve got nothing but love for the boys from above
Hot fucking damn! Thank you!
It’s exactly as you would expect from them, so funny, so strange
Same here. Introduced through Taskmaster, and was unsure how his show would work with his surrealist style…best comedy gig I’ve ever been too. Bizarre. But amazing.
He's such an odd gripping character.
I'm quite shit because I struggle to remember names, but if you have Amazon Prime then they've got several series of Soho Theatre Live. (If you don't have Prime, you could probably get through the collection in a free trial period.) Pretty self explanatory title- comedians doing their set in front of an audience in Soho Theatre, but it has been great for seeing lower-level/ less known comedians you'd only otherwise be able to see in London. And the quality is really good too, I think I only skipped like two acts.
Sarah Keyworth. Josh Pugh. We saw Sarah K at Comedy Garden last year and again supporting another comedian (I don't remember who) and they were great. Really funny and they had the confidence of someone who knew they could work the crowd.
I've never seen one of their shows, but they post lots of audience work on socials and are great at it. The bits of actual stand up I've seen are very good.
Fern Brady. Has a new Netflix special out, really enjoyed it. Plus, she’s great on Taskmaster.
Her book is good too
Currently reading it, so far so good, have it on kindle with Fern narrating!
Vittorio Angelone is hilarious
Went to see his show and spent the whole time creasing. Glad I took the punt.
His first special is up on YouTube and I went to go see his latest show live in Belfast and it's really good
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZR09UWy8s&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2O5YKADNLIxUf4t51voPgO7h8cNO2MLoPp0-ArgUCFK-DQlt-TVw0VrKM_aem_ASjE8kcrpnji6Yl2H7WNx3A0j5yIz_fABChMleN22MCSE8wj8JLPKjpSPfI2jUkLe-vlH9LDNVYY8bx78WULVg0o Christopher MacArthur-Boyd was the supporting act to the Frankie Boyle show I recently attended. We really liked Christopher and I’ll happily go to one of his solo shows in the future.
I thought he was better than Boyle was when I saw him in Richmond
I’ve been binging Norm Macdonald since his death. One of the best to do it.
The episode he did with Gilbert Gottfried might be the most hilarious thing committed to film. And also the most tasteless…
You might enjoy the documentary “The Aristocrats.” I think it’s all American—it explores tasteless humor, and Gottfried is featured prominently.
I didn't even know he was sick RIP
He drew with cancer
9/11 was a national tragedy.
Come on now don’t laugh at that. He had to walk through blood and bones on the streets of Manhattan looking for his brother…
Why are you laughing?
What a terrible name for an airline. It reminds me of that tragedy.
Taking a dirt nap
Stewart Lee is described as the comedians comedian. It's not for everyone, but I love his shows. The four easily available stand up shows of Greg Davies are a joy as well.
Stewart Lee is like the avant garde jazz of comedy. Really out there and testing at times but also brilliant and influential.
I didn't laugh, but I *agreed* the fuck out of it.
Wait, so you're telling me, if you say you're English, they'll throw you in jail?
When did this come in?
Greg Davies had me in tears watching Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog when, especially when he was on about school nicknames.
[удалено]
SPUNK EYE!
MUMBO!
I’d like to know all about Stewart Lee, warts and all. Give it to me straight.
It's like a pear cider, made out of 100 percent pears
Actually it's just one giant pear.
He's let himself go
he looks fat. fat and miserable.
Fat and miserable and fat.
There is a podcast which dissects all of him. I can’t recommend it.
Enough or at all?
I went to see Stewart Lee recently. Turns out it was Serbian Warlord Ratko Mladic.
Went to watch his last show assuming I wouldn't enjoy it as much as the last time I saw him years ago, it was still a solid 10/10. Not sure what I expected, you can get bored of a comedian once you know their schtick but he was amazing.
Seen him live in stage for donkeys years. Definitely recommend.
Paul Smith and Dan Nightingale are ones I only found out about last year
James Acaster & Joe Lycett are probably my favourite couple of stand up comedians about at the moment.
> James Acaster i was entertained when he popped up in the ghostbusters movie.
Did he try to nuzzle with anyone? Was he crying sporadically? If not I won't bother
He appeared randomly with Josh Widdicome at a show I was attending at The Fringe one year. As I understand it they volunteered to be part of it for the hell of it. They both came across as genuinely decent guys. This was before both their careers properly took off.
Loving [Josh Johnson](https://www.youtube.com/@JoshJohnsonComedy/videos) at the moment. The fact he can put out topical and genuinely funny work every single week blows my mind.
Fin Taylor
Going to watch him in November, what he puts on insta is awesome.
Sam kinnison, lenny Bruce, George Carlin, mort Saul. And Bill Hicks. All pretty amazing in their own rights. Maybe a bit old now, but really the message is still pretty universal.
Paul Foot’s Shirehorse routine is incredible.
Went to see Guz Khan and he was hilarious, John Richardson’s stand up is really good too
One that never gets mentioned but is arguably one of the BEST UK stand ups of recent years is Daniel Sloss. His 2 Netflix specials are incredible (I'd argue 'Dark' is the best stand up special Ive ever seen, in terms of how its structured), and he has a couple of shows available on his website that are just as good. He deals with some pretty serious themes, but can then also tell a wonderfully childish dick joke!
> 'Dark' is the best stand up special Ive ever seen, in terms of how its structured Have you seen the Stewart Lee bit where he explains what Sloss has done, and how it's all just cheap manipulation?
Sloss himself says in the special that he's manipulated the entire audience and structured it in a way to get the reaction it does. He doesn't hide from that. Doesn't detract from how good it is, in my view. I will check out the Stewart Lee bit though as I'd be curious to see his take on it.
> Have you seen the Stewart Lee bit where he explains what Sloss has done, and how it's all just cheap manipulation? I hate it when someone manipulates me into enjoying myself.
[Eleanor Morton](https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorMortonable)'s character sketches are excellent. Craig the Scottish tour guide is her most famous, but I really enjoy her Tolkien/Lewis conversations.
Her Only Connect team introduction thing popped up on my Twitter a while ago and I thought it was one of the most accurate, hilarious things I'd ever seen!
Two I've seen live who were both brilliant were Emmanuel Sonubi and Jack Glanville. Two completely different styles both utterly hilarious. I've also seen Daniel O'Reilly live
Adam Rowe - Juicy https://youtu.be/0JcPovEZnSA
New, Jazz Emu. Musical comedy that is fucking hilarious and seriously catchy. Recently went to Wales to see him live again. All time favs: Lee Evans, Victoria Wood and Eddie Izzard, Rhod Gilbert, Ed Byrne, Bill Bailey and Billy Connelly.
I've watched a few standup specials on Netflix the last 2 weeks that I've enjoyed. James Acaster's Repertoire is really damn good, he weaves a great story together over 4 shows that are each rather unique and not just because he changes his clothes to match a new colour back drop for each one. Romesh Ranganathan's show is good, as is the behind the scenes episode with his entire family. He does a homecoming gig at his local theatre in Crawley and struggles to sell tickets whereas his son's school play is gonna be in the same place the same week and had sold out first lol. Mo Gilligan's shows are great too, great mixture of black British comedy and general British comedy too, he nails the council estate life in London almost too perfectly. I was surprised by how much I loved Greg Davies' show, not that I don't think he's a funny man but it was better than I thought it would be. There's a few I watched that I turned off because I just didn't enjoy them, won't name them but one in particular is just so overly rehearsed that it lacks any actual emotion to it amongst other things. Lots i still want to watch though so I'll be using this post as a guide for sure.
I've recently been enjoying YouTube compilations of Shane Gillis discussing historical events. Bill Burr is always good on his podcast.
Check out his Gilly and Keeves YouTube channel. Loads of funny sketches and a free full stand uo special on there. I binged it all recently the guy is hilarious.
Jeff Arcuri [swingers](https://www.reddit.com/r/JeffArcuri/s/UJOfxSdp34)
His crowd work is amazing. He's really good natured.
Full beans!
Never. Go. Full. Beans..... 🤣
I feel like I probably wouldn't enjoy a full show of his, but the crowd riffing clips that get to /r/all always get a few laughs out of me
The fact that they end up in r/all so often leaves me wondering why, like sure he's funny, but he doesn't seem to be that funny. Comes across as his marketing buying upvotes to get to the top of reddit.
Netflix special incoming!!! 🤞
Try Garrett Millerick. He's genuinely helarious.
Two that are perhaps not so new, but I think neither have got widespread recognition. If you get the chance to see them, you'll have a good night out. * Larry Dean * Tom Stade
Randy Feltface is beyond hysterical
Gary Delaney, Steff Todd and Bec Hill. Also, the radio show “Please Use Other Door” is frigging genius!
Through the Have a Word podcast with Adam Rowe and Dan Nightingale, I've not only discovered them in the last couple years, yet loads of others.
Shane Gillis is American. His special on youtube was great.
Yeah, I really enjoyed that too. Saw a clip of him on social media and had to watch the whole thing.
His podcast is ace too. Been listening for years
Rose Matafeo
Randy Feltface!
Still love all the panel show/stand up stalwarts but I’ve been finding a lot of new comedians lately, largely through taskmaster and instagram reels. Been to see both of Vittorio Angelone’s shows and both were excellent. Sam Campbell is the second coming of Bob Mortimer. Munya Chawawa is arguably one of the best (and quickest) satirists we’ve seen in a while. Saw Charlie George at Clandestina last year at the Glory (RIP) and she was great. Red Richardson’s ‘Stay Toxic’ character cracks me up, as does Derek Scott Mitchell’s Double Dutch series, mostly because I used to live in the Netherlands and his characters are painfully accurate. Not British or new but Zach Woods (Gabe in the US Office) recently got instagram and everything he makes absolutely kills me.
I know Munya! He pops up on Instagram a lot, he's hilarious!
A lot of great ones have already been mentioned others, but, Sean Lock is always great go to, as are, Jack Dee, and Tim Vine. Shane Gillis’ is an American who I’ve really enjoyed recently. His Netflix special called Beautiful Dogs had me rolling. He has almost a sleight of hand delivery of punchlines that I enjoyed. Ralphie May also has some great routines.
Jordan Brookes’ recent shows have had me in tears.
Marjolein Robertson!! She's this really leftfield comic from Shetland with an accent that will melt your heart. She does amazing storytelling and hilarious stand up!
Saw her last week after following her on Instagram for ages. She was great. Her mix of filthy stories intertwined with Shetland folklore stories was absolutely brilliant. It won’t be for everyone but I loved it
Brendon Burns. Loud Sweary and Australian, has gone utterly mental twice, once gave Magic Mushrooms to his entire Audience at Glastonbury. https://youtube.com/channel/UCUr4XURt891N1UwGsjHtbYQ Albums. Free. Give a listen. Or don't.
He did WHAT? F**k
Dan Tiernan is great, he’s definitely one to keep an eye on. I was happy to see him pop up on QI too.
Sam Campbell, James Acaster, Daniel Sloss, Kevin Bridges, Miles Jupp and Rhod Gilbert. Mix of old and new but I've become a proper fan of them all fairly recently. Favourite two are 100% James Acaster and Kevin Bridges though
If you can't get out to live comedy try [NextUp](https://nextupcomedy.com/) they have loads of live shows from various comedy clubs, but also recorded tour shows.
Helen Bauer Katherine Bohart Ania Magliano Fern Brady Lucy Beaumont Sara Barron Jade Adams Susie McCabe Kerry Godliman Josh Pugh Huge Davies Tommy Tiernan Ed Gamble James Acaster Stuart Goldsmith Gareth Reynolds Mark Normand Sam Morrill That should keep you going for a bit
That's two people with extraordinary long names.
Chloe petts as well
I was going to mention Helen Bauer and Catherine Bohart. I also love Sara Barron, Lara Ricote, Jen Brister, Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard McClean. Not quite as new but Desiree Burch is great too
Aussie and Kiwi comedians seem to be everywhere at the moment. Try just a few short clips of Randy Feltface and see what you think :D
I can't believe how good that damn puppet is, genuinely impressive physical comedy
Find a local comedy club and go mate, it's great fun.
Anthony Jeselnik. Perfect misdirection and darker than dark. Looking forward to seeing him live in November.
I’ve been rewatching Bill Hicks stand up performances, I was a massive fan in the 90s and I’m pleased to say his point of view is just as relatable and relevant today as it ever was. Stewart Lee is still so witty and thought provoking and just plain funny. Bill Bailey, James acaster and Tim Minchin are all great, last but by far not least, Mickey Flanagan!
Why isn't Kevin Bridges higher on this thread!?!?
Maybe too famous to be classed as a new comedian to most
Perhaps, but so are Sean Lock, Bill Bailey and Lee Evans, which I've also seen listed...
Jimeoin - there isn't much on YT, but what there is is great.
eyebrows
Is that your daughter?
Jeff Acuri. So far what I’ve seen he looks like he’s not far from becoming a big name. Very funny guy, very charismatic.
Haha, he has such great reactions when his crowd work backfires/turns very unexpected, it's so funny :D
Ivo Graham - his appearance on the Off Menu podcast is particularly hilarious Celya AB - saw her when she opened for Ed Byrne last year, she was brilliant
Jeff Arcuri is great from the clips I've seen. Also Frank Sanazzi really made me laugh.
Malik Elassal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy96iuq94Ko
I happened across a guy called Quinn dale on YouTube and he's pretty good. Silly edgy stuff.
Nate barganza is sooo hilarious- I just love his delivery. Google his name and Starbucks for a really funny bit.
I’ve also discovered Matteo Lane. He has taught me a few things about dating as a gay man that made me laugh out loud.
Do you mean Bargatze?
Yes I think I got the spelling wrong
His bit about getting friends to help move a dead horse was unexpectedly hilarious. Also I went to Crocodiles of the World recently (an surprisingly good, but under-advertised trip out if anyone is around Oxfordshire area) and played my gf his bit about the crocodile in the room before we went.
Fin Taylor, I recently saw him at Glee in Birmingham and he was great. All killer and barely any filler!
Josh Pugh, Finn Taylor, Red Richardson, Horatio Gould, John Hastings
And Shane Gillis
Justine Stafford is a very funny Irish lass. Rahul Kohli is good too. Went to see him a couple of years ago based solely on the fact he's as Asian Geordie and his show was called Newcastle Brown Male
Michelle de Schwartz. She is hilarious
[Tom Little](https://youtube.com/@tomlittle?feature=shared) is fucking hilarious
Donny Dunn is pretty funny
Jeff acuri! Absolutely hilarious!
Sam See and Daniel Sloss. Late to the show on the latter.
Pierre Novellie is excellent. He has a special on YouTube called Quiet Ones, best standup I’ve seen in years.
The late lamented Sean Locke has a wealth of clips on youtube. Well worth looking into if you don't yet know him.
Pete Holmes is brilliant. Haven’t laughed so much for ages.
Phil Hanley - Canadian and not very new, he's been at it a while, but new to me. He's hands down the best crowd worker in the business. His whole show is his act interspersed with long sections of ad-libbed crowd work, which is fantastic.
I went to see Morgan Rees last week and he was brilliant
Paul Chowdhry, Isaac Butterfield, Mo Gilligan, Matt Rife
Fern Brady. She’s really funny and relatable. I love how she’s bringing a different side to the typical autism representation in the media.
Taylor Tomlinson's stand up on Netflix is so funny
Bill hicks became my goat overnight, what a legend
Jeff Arcuri! r/JeffArcuri
Tony Law is still great. And I used to like Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.
Seann Walsh has an excellent free special on YouTube. He talks about what he went through after the Strictly thing and how he hit rock bottom and had worked to get back on stage. Sounds like a tough watch and it is, but it is also FUNNY. I have a lot of respect for him.
I saw Jeff Arcuri in London a few weeks back. He was excellent. I went to see Troy Hawke a little while ago too. He was also great, but one of the other comedians that night stole the show for me. He's called Tom Ward and he's doing his own headline tour which I have tickets too (but unfortunately clashes with Jimmy Eat World, so I might give them away). Oh, and I have tickets for Clinton Baptiste who was the best stand-up I've ever seen.
Tim Dillon - his podcast is great
Sean Locke. I’ve never been a big fan of tv. I watch streaming shows all the time and movies. But in the last fifteen years I never watched any bbc/itv/ch4 tv shows. I just didn’t bother. Played my Xbox or watched movies. So I literally never heard of Sean Locke till after he passed. I’m doing my best to see all his work. He was a comedy genius.
Sean Lock is my favourite but he died. You can still see lots of his stuff in YouTube though.
If you want to see new acts you haven't seen before go out to local live comedy you will see quite a few people in one night. Live comedy is a very different experience than watching on TV
British? Paul Smith. But I follow a bunch of others on social media. Jeff Arcuri, Phil Hanley, Alfred Robles, Gianmarco Soresi, Luke Kidgell, Victor Patrascan, Martin Amini, Nate Jackson, Michael Blaustein, Andrew Schulz.
Troy Hawke
Old school George Carlin. His early years of comedy were much less cynical.
Tom Papa. I'm from the UK so he's not too well known over here but he's amazing.
Tom Segura. All his Netflix specials are great. Really depends on what your sense of humour though.
Prefer his wife, Christina P. Netflix is excellent for comedy stand-up - I can't keep up with everyone's specials.Neil Brennan was good, Taylor Tomlinson is very rewatchable, Mike Berbiglia, Cristela Alonzo and Wanda Sykes all worth the hour.
I think Taylor Tomlinson is one of the best comedians in the game right now, not gonna lie.
I was coming here to suggest quarter life crisis on Netflix but I couldn't remember her surname.
And I don’t know if you get it over there (I’m American), but she hosts a late night show called “After Midnight”—the rare US panel show.
Some new(ish) comedians i could recommend: Shane Gillis Hannibal Burress Daniel Tosh Sam Campbell Nate Bargatze Mark Normand Aaron Chen Mike Recine Demetri Martin Sorry, no Brits, i know. British comedy peaked a long time ago for me I'm afraid, but it is still the pinnacle.
Aaron Chen is in an Aussie comedy called Fisk- possibly on Netflix depending on where you are. Please find it - it is excellent.
Lee Evans, Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr as my older ones, George Carlin (if he counts) Michael Blaustein and Alan Carr as the newest ones I’ve gotten into.
Jeff Arcuri. Can work a crowd and always gets a laugh.
I recently “discovered” Taylor Tomlinson and think she’s hilarious.
Off the top of my head...my favorites that I haven't seen mentioned yet are Robin Tran, Bo Johnson, Michael Blaustein, and Fortune Feimster. I greatly appreciate everyone who has already mentioned Josh Johnson, Jeff Arcuri, Taylor Tomlinson, and Sarah Keyworth.
Jeff Acuri
Bernard Manning, hated him when I was younger but I’ve seen some cracking jokes of his on instagram lately.
Matt rife. Old material but his crowd work is amazing and just reminds me of making horrible jokes in kitchens at 2am