Two dozen of tomorrows stand-up, sketch, and online comedy superstars, according to industry insiders.
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The comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in 2024.
One upside to the clip-based comedy economy?
Weve kept this years list tight, too.
From there, we had to grapple with some questions: Which names came up over and over again?
In the year of our Lord 2024, we thought it fitting to choose 24 of the absolute best.
From clown college to Dropout, here are this years Comedians You Should and Will Know.
There are entire cringe compilations of her uttering the single syllableOh.
Offline, Briers talents extend beyond her POV videos.
Read our interview with Brierhere.
But even his most anarchic material is meticulously crafted.
The moles, theyre in quite an intricate pattern, Campbell continues with newfound confidence.
My phone thought it was a QR code!
As Campbell has matured as a performer, hes grown more adept at translating his style for mainstream audiences.
Inone 2021 sketch, he plays a boyfriend meeting his girlfriends discriminatory parents for the first time.
But their instant dislike of him isnt rooted in religious or racial prejudice.
They simply cant get past the fact that hes 30 percent transparent.
Read our interview with Campbellhere.
People are very curious about trans people, he says in hisLate Night With Seth Meyersappearancefrom earlier this year.
People ask me sometimes, How did you know?
When did you know?
And it happened to me the same way it happens to all of us: Caitlyn Jenner bit me.
I could be the next Spider-Man.
Like, It doesnt shoot webs, but itll get the job done, you know what Im saying?
Read our interview with Carneyhere.
Aaron Chen
- We give Aaron 5 stars for this.
Aaron Chen, ‘If Weren’t Filmed, Nobody Would Believe’ Love comedy like us?
Then he waits, pauses, and continues with the next joke.
Of course, Chen says, followed by a long beat of a pause.
And thank you for considering me a friend.
Read our interview with Chenhere.
Its because I have too much faith in food professionals because of my progressive politics.
In his stand-up, Civeris is often spying through white-picket fences at how his more culturally hegemonic neighbors live.
No one else is slicing intothe gendered experience of pizzalike this show.
Read our interview with Civerishere.
She probably could have a lucrative career writing five songs an episode for Netflix reality shows.
Trust shell be playing the hits as well.
Read our interview with DUvahere.
You just told me you live in an underpass; you havent had a job.
You cant feed you!
I know you cant feedme!
Consider her2024 joke about starting therapy.
she imagines reminding her therapist whenever her professional opinion starts to feel too disrespectful.
Im up there getting shot the fuck up!
Like, girl, I will fire you!
Read our interview with Denisehere.
You want to be a funny guy, huh?
Read our interview with Elassalhere.
In another, she gets very offended when a ghost calls her fat and faggot.
Read our interview with Hernandezhere.
This is, as Higley puts it onstage, half of whats wrong with him.
Hes the guy who says everything everyone else was thinking but was maybe too polite to say.
(One of hisOnionheadlines: Smithsonian Devotes New Exhibit to First African American to Use Whites-Only Glory Hole.)
It shapes his onstage persona, too.
I dont want to look at ass.
I want to look at a beautiful sunset.
I want to see a rainbow, Higley says.
But then because I was tripping, I realize,Im not looking at ass.
Im looking at billions and billions of cells, made up of billions of billions of atoms.
He ends up gasping to the rest of the train, That ass isamazing.
Read our interview with Higleyhere.
I kinda miss ISIS, yall, she begins one joke from her 2020 albumBig Dick Energy.
I want a color grid!
I mean, it aint gon be no color.
Its just going to be different shades of white, cause thats whos doing it.
L.A.s origin story is the gold rush, she explains.
Thats why, today, everybody in Los Angeles is delusional.
Read our interview with Hilliardhere.
I have a bedtime and decisions to make.
I dont have all night.
you should probably give me information that matters to me.
All I need to see is your penis and your paycheck.
After years of flexing her comedy muscle onstage, she started posting videos online in early 2023.
Get in the car!
That was so embarrassing.
Everyone was staring at me!
Read our interview with Liaohere.
At its best, the appeal of MANDALs stand-up is similar.
I was talking to this lady who just broke up with her boyfriend, right?
And she wanted me to take her to go get crab legs.
And I was like, Dang, girl, you gonna need two Old Bays.
True to his prediction, the joke falls flat.
MANDALs expressive style lends itself naturally tovoice-over,sketch, andmusical comedy, all forms hes successfully dabbled in.
Read our interview with MANDALhere.
Gavin Matts
Self-deprecation is easy.
In life, its a defense mechanism, and in stand-up comedy, its usually a cheat code.
But nothing about what Gavin Matts does is easy.
He connects the personal to the systemic, the mundane to the existentially troubling.
In the case of the latter, its police brutality.
Thats why I understand why police get so violent as soon as they step on a college campus.
Theyre like, Aw fuck, everybody here reads?
I gotta start hitting somebody.
How the fuck would you know that?
You have six remotes … You have more remotes than there are genders?
I dont think so.
Its that mutability that makes him fit in at the Comedy Cellar or alternative shows in equal measure.
In a stratified comedy landscape, Matts could be the one bro to save us all.
Read our interview with Mattshere.
Hes remembering the IMF crisis.
and articulate it in such a way that reveals how closely humor lives on the other side.
The most complete expression of Mayers sensibilities to date arrives in the form of her aforementioned memoir.
The live show shares the same title asMayers podcast, which she began hosting in 2022.
Hair grows out of your butthole.
Read our interview with Mayerhere.
Its working: Dropout now has evolved into a talent-incubation machine for stars with their own devoted followings.
Dont you feel better??
none has raised their profile to the same extent.
illustrates the shows growing reach.
(One standout segment sees Demi Adejuyigbe making the case forWhich Cartoons Characters Are Invited to The Cookout?)
In the case of Shankar, Mulligan, and Michaelis, its been more beneficial to drop out.
Read our interview with Michaelishere,Mulliganhere, and Shankarhere.
c’mon help me.
Pauroso is clown mother.
Sorry, no, she is clown stepmother.
Read our interview with Paurosohere.
For those that dont know, its a birthmark.
Thats what it is.
It doesnt lower my self-esteem enough for me to fuck you.
Im going to need you to put on your safety goggles and go in there and save American manufacturing!
Read our interview with Radcliffehere.
That shes also crafted TikToks own Jim and Pam arc is justicing on the face.
Read our interview with Slowikowskahere.
Its not just one platform, either.
But he feels anxiety about it, so I got a watermelon mezuzah.
That ceaseless energy is a career strategy, but its also a reflection of who Soresi is onstage.
His material aboutcurrent eventsplays well in that environment, as do his regular clips ofcrowdwork.
But its not surprising that in his longer sets, hes also the unusual comedian with material about MrBeast.
The crowd roars because they get it.
Read our interview with Soresihere.
Emil Wakims comedy is often political, and it is often about injustice.
Its like shooting an eagle.
It kills the hope.
But thats what I want for the world.
I want Greta to squirt.
he shouts after that punch line.
In that way, it feels almost rebellious.
Read our interview with Wakimhere.
Eagle Witt
Eagle Witt is a trickster.
Isnt that beautiful?, he asks and then, the twist: Yeah, thats Jay-Z.
Id never vote for Kanye West.
Hes my favorite rapper.
I trust him with beats, not the button.
Like in his stand-up, its his instinct to zag that gets the laugh.
It is still early in Witts career, but hes already positioned for a similar trajectory.
Read our interview with Witthere.
She was speaking Korean in the video.
