I've been watching a lot of standup comedy specials lately. Joe Rogan, Bryan Callen, Tom Segura to name a few. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts?

Comedians to check out (in no real order of greatness)...

 

Billy Connolly

Eddie Izzard

Ron Funches

Robin Williams

George Carlin

Lenny Bruce

Bill Hicks

Chris Rock

Eddie Murphy

Richard Pryor

(early) Martin Lawrence

Steve Martin

Craig Ferguson

Dylan Moran

Dara O'Briain

Ed Byrne

Tommy Tiernan

Ross Noble

Edited August 7, 20168 yr by DC

I really like Aziz Ansari's stand up stuff, and Katherine Ryan's most recent show is on spotify and well worth checking out, if only for her Cheryl Cole impression.

Katherine Ryan is someone I enjoy on the panel show circuit, but don't think I could handle a full-length show from her (ditto Andy Parsons).

 

I left out Micky Flanagan, Greg Davies and Rhod Gilbert (The Man with the Flaming Battenberg Tattoo is hilarious) from my earlier list too.

 

Also, it's a shame that Ask Rhod Gilbert only ran for two seasons.

Edited August 7, 20168 yr by DC

Everybody sort of ignores his stand up work because of his career now of being a loud short person in movies and loving himself a little too much, but Kevin Hart and his first two specials in particular are actually quite damn funny.

 

His story of a time he encountered an Ostrich, his jailbird uncle, reconnecting with his father... all golden.

I love Frankie Boyle's stuff too, but that's mainly because he's now hit the point where he's trying to be as offensive as possible to as many people as he can.

I listen to a lot of podcasts hosted by comedians who regularly have me laughing out loud but those same comedians have produced specials that at best make me break the odd smile. I'm talking about Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe and co.

 

Two Irish comedians who I would have to recommend are Tommy Tiernan and Des Bishop. Some of Tommy's stuff is ridiculously funny. Des Bishop is really American but he's based in Ireland. Never thought much of him until I saw him live. He's similar to Joe Rogan in that his comedy is thought provoking etc but not side splitting for the most part.

Tony Law is really funny too, so you should look out for his stuff on YouTube.

Tony Law is really funny too, so you should look out for his stuff on YouTube.

Will do