My Favorite Stand Up Comedians

A collection of my favorite stand-up comedians, in alphabetical order, with two bits each. Most are short snippets (a minute or less). I’ve tried to mark when they are longer (sometimes you just need to include Roy Wood, Jr.’s Rod Stewart story, so they can’t all be short). I started to add some full length specials under a few, so if you really want to dive deeper, that’s an option too. This list is fully adaptable. Send me your favorites. Enjoy some laughs.

James Acaster

The Absurdity of the British Empire (4 min)
Childhood Dream

Louie Anderson

Little Brother (3 min)
on Johnny Carson (6 min)

Gauri B

Consent
Countries Not Acknowledging Bad Shit

Ben Bailey

The Guest Bathroom
Repeated Syllables

Nate Bargatze

Time Travel
Digging a Hole

Rafi Bastos

Verbs in Past Tense
Verbs in English

W. Kamau Bell

The Only Good Thing About Trump’s Presidency (4 min)
I Wouldn't Call Him a Racist

Ahmed Bharoocha

We've Taken It Too Far with Cows
God and Crows (4 min)
The Dark Side of Pinocchio (full 11 min set)

Mike Birbiglia

The Legacy of Jesus
Late People

Liz Blanc

Speak Your Truth, Scholar
One Child Left Behind

Neal Brennan

Gun Arguments
Explaining Jesus to Aliens
$43 in My Checking Account (full special)

Pat Burtscher

We Made Everything Up and It Still Sucks
Einstein

George Carlin

Airlines and the Safety Lecture (17 min)
The Confessional (audio only, 5 min)

Emily Catalano

He's Got a Type
Top Five Sins
Unspecial (full special)

Ronny Chieng

Fixing My Mom's Computer
Yelp Reviews

David Cross

Statue of Liberty Poem (3 min)
Date Rape Tips (5 min)
Worst Daddy in the World (full special)

Trae Crowder

Which Rules to Break
Rednecks and Cops

JC Currais

Splash Mountain
911 Call

Dov Davidoff

Looking for Blueberries
The American Dream

Kiran Deol

Dating a British Guy
Not How Free Works

Dan Docimo

Corinthians
Jesus Psych Ward
What Happens After We Die? (full 15 min set)

Joe Dombrowski

Guns to Teachers
Teaching Kindergarten on Edibles

Tina Friml

That's My Kink
Bondage

Ron Funches

Conspiracy Theories
Trying to Be Healthy
Giggle Fit (full special)

Hannah Gadsby

Preposition lesson (6 min)
Men Concerned About Women's Sports

Mayce Galoni

An Accident
Biblical Double Standards
Video Games vs The Bible (full 10 min set)

Pedro Gonzalez

Cleaning Tiny Toilets
Do You Work Here?

Ryan Goodcase

Masturbation in the Bible
Comedy is All About Timing
Maybe They're Dead (full special)

Mitch Hedberg

Emergency Brakes
Yogurt

Raanan Hershberg

Bathroom Sign Rules
Christopher Columbus

Steve Hofstetter

Amendment People Are Hilarious (3 min)
Pronouns

Ismo

Ass Is the Most Complicated Word in the English Language (6 min)
Sir?

Jim Jeffries

Gun Control (Part 1, 8 min)
More American Than Australian (3 min)

Josh Johnson

Pickle Story
Death by Math
The Failure, Fear, and Frenzy Around Luigi Mangioni (full special)

Leslie Jones

White People and Animals (3 min)
Texting

Zoltan Kaszas

The World Is Almost Over (3 min)
My Wife Finds My Urologist

Kyle Kinane

Pancakes on a Flight (8 min)
Sexy Trucks
Trampoline in a Ditch (full special)

Hari Kondabolu

We’ve Come a Long Way
Reviewing White Food

Dan LaMorte

People Hate Honesty
Meditating with Commercials

Pete Lee

Gangster Rap
Don't Ghost

Orlando Leyba

Face Serum
Reading Online Comments

Drew Lynch

Stutter vs. ADHD
Don't Touch the Sea Turtles

Marc Maron

We Did Everything We Could
Trying to Stay Woke

Chris McCausland

Joining the Gym
A Useless Guide to Meditation

Sam Morril

Life is Precious
With Familiarity

Kumail Nanjiani

Checking for an Intruder in the Attic
My Issue with Harry Potter

Trevor Noah

How the British Took Over India (6 min)
Medaling in Swimming

Tig Notaro

My Children's Least Favorite Mom (4 min)
Physical Therapy

Sammy Obeid

Israeli Military
You've Come to See a White Comedian

Atsuko Okatsuka

White Friends and Gluten
More Important Questions

Ray O'Leary

Tipping
Shampoo

Patton Oswalt

Toddler Experience (10 min)
Performing for the Drunkest Audience Ever

Sashi Perera

Sunscreen
What Makes Shakespeare a Great Writer

Emo Phillips

Childhood (6 min)
The South

John Pinette

Skiing (3 min)
Get Out of the Line (5 min)

Chris Porter

Jimmy Johns
Sleep on This Side of the Bed

Erica Rhodes

Grammar Questions
Heartbreak

Susan Rice

Adopting a Cat
Car Trouble

Gabriel Rutledge

Profiled for Buying Apples
Dry Humping (4 min)

Jason Salmon

I Look Racist
I Wasn't There

Jacob Samuel

Plenty of Fish in the Sea
Honda Odyssey

Andrew Schulz

Blackface in the Military (4 min)
If China Invades Taiwan

Tom Segura

My Famous Neighbor (4 min)
Going to the Doctor (3 min)

Kiry Shabazz

Misgendering a Baby
Autism is a Superhuman Advantage
Misgendering a Baby (full 11 minute set)

Dusty Slay

It's 5 O'clock Somewhere (10 min)
Non-touristy Advice

Gianmarco Soresi

Pro-Lifer's Remorse
Progressive Views

Wanda Sykes

Harder Being Gay than Black
Worrying About the Wrong Shit

Brent Terhune

Bigfoot Hunter (5 min)
Substitute Teaching (4 min)

Taylor Tomlinson

Getting Guys to Wear a Condom
Dirty Talk

Vishnu Vaka

Smoking in the House
Religious Conversations

Torio Van Grol

Vasectomy
Affogato

Sheng Wang

Rat News
Immigration

Greg Warren

Cross Country
Being Set Up by Friends

Michelle Wolf

Trying to Ghost a Bad First Date
Little Girls Everywhere

Roy Wood Jr.

The "Real" Rod Stewart (15 min)
My Dad's Ghost

Steven Wright

Movies
Peripheral Visionary

Joe Zimmerman

Birdwatching and Friendship (6 min)
Elementary School