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Kalaroga, Shark Media, Helloon, Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy New is. One of the most interesting lists that comes out every year is from Vulture. It is the Comedians You Should and Will Know List. This year it is twenty twenty four’s Comedians You Should and Will Know List two dozen of tomorrow’s stand up sketching online comedy superstars, according to industry insiders. Not just to add a curiosity, let’s look at a twenty twenty three’s list to see how good they do.
All Right, So from twenty twenty three Fumi Abe that was a good call. He had a good year. Brian Baje had a good year. Ralph Barbosa for sure. Charlie Bartley and Natalie Roger Lateman still not sure who they are all right?
Three and one Sophie Bottle sure four and one Curtis Cook, Katrina Davis, Stavros Hakki has had a monster year. Rob Hayes. This is the twenty three list. Jordan Jensen, Andrea Jin, Rachel Kayley, Eddie Modica, Opie A La Baju, Nimesh Patel had a pretty good year. Richard Perez, Jordan Temple, Asha Ward, August White, Maggie Winters, Sabrina Wu cut through Zach Zimmerman, cut through Sophie Zucker, kind of cut through Zach Zucker.
So all right, from last year, I don’t know seven or eight. That’ll ballpark how we’re going to do here? Wulta writes, the comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in twenty twenty four. Name brand comedy venues are opening new locations. Local venues are being brought out by mega corporations and streaming service.
Home comedy festivals are usurping the old fashioned ones. With so much going on, the mattmosphere is sure to be rife with hacks and phonies, but it’s also full of undiscovered treasures. So the hell with the algorithm, Let’s do Vultures eleventh annual round up of Comedians you should and Will know, After polling more than one hundred industry insiders, including TV execs from streaming and linear TV, bookers for clubs, artistic directors from comedy theaters, indie comedy producers, podcast network heads, top brass anime studios, terrestrial radio chiefs, comedy record label execs, comedy festival programmers, comedy historians, live show photographers and performers featured on last year’s list, They were left with a pool of more than two hundred comedians. From there, Vulture had to grapple with some questions. Which names came up over and over again, Who stood out from the crowd work, who’s on the rise to stardom, and who will be the masterminds of our future favorite TV shows and stand up specials.
In alphabetical order by surname. Sabrina Briar, Ulture tells us Sabrina Briar’s face can turn the most unremarkable life experience into a meum in case in point, the way your eyes bug out and she juts her body forward like a blondea delaphosaurus when she says her Memorial Day weekend was amazing except for her raging uti. It’s not just the relatability of her behavioral observations that helps this persona connect with her massive online audience. It’s the palpable way she revels in the squirmy, grotesque rie. There were entire cringe compilations of her uttering the single syllable, Oh number two, Sam Campbell, Sam’s been buzzing, You’ve heard mention Sam.
Over the years, here, especially when we talk about the International Festival’s Vulture Rites and Sam Campbell’s twenty twenty two solo show, Comedy Show, winner of the prestigious Best Comedy Show awarded Fringe, The comedian introduced his brand of comic absurdism to the audience with the tongue in cheek one liner, my mind is a prison full of crazy ideas, and I think there’s going to be a jail break. As Campbell has matured as a performer, he’s grown more depth to translating a style from mainstream audiences. Campbell’s eccentricities are palpable but never alienating. In one twenty one sketch, he plays a boyfriend meeting his girlfriend’s discriminatory parents for the first time, but their instant dislike of him isn’t rooted in religious or racial prejudice. They simply can’t get past the fact that he’s thirty percent transparent.
Third up Nico Carney. Once Nico gets to the part of his set where he reveals that he was a Division one athlete in college, everything clicks in a place only years of early morning drills and after school practice leads to stand up. That’s this consistent smooth and fine tune to kill. Carney starts a set with an introduction to his trans identity. People are very curious about trans people.
People ask me sometimes, how did you know? When did you know? It happened to me? The same way it happens to all of us. Caitln Jinner bit me, that’s a great joke.
Number four Aaron Chen. Some comedians tride on stage with a sense of grandiosity and expansiveness. Chen stands, blinks calmly, and waits for the audience to recalibrate to his measured pace. Chen says he took an uber to the show and the driver asked if Chen minded if he talked to a friend. Chen says, of course, and thank you for considering me a friend.
I want it way up to four. Georgia severus. George says, I can’t believe I fell for orange wine for three years. It’s because I have too much faith in food professionals, because of my own progressive politics. Saveria says a gay, glasses wearing, cynical Greek man who in the stand up world is wildly over educated.
Stanford Mt Alum while, as he put it to podcast co hosts Sam Taggart. I’m default either bitchy, condescending, or rude. He imagines what it would be like to have a beautiful daughter who hates him. He describes attending progressive straight weddings. There’s a ChEls with blue hair, the bride is being walked down the aisle by a random lesbian, and the bride’s dress is ripped to represent our broken justice system.
That sounds really funny. Francesca Duva has the pop acumen of a Swedish hit maker and the comedic sensibility of an entire thirty rock writer’s room. She could probably have a lucrative career writing five songs for an episode of Netflix reality shows. Instead, she creates the best musical comedy in Brooklyn, which is saying something in a burrow that has more musical comedians per capita than doctors. A Mary poppins on Popper’s song about nanny, ing the lyrics I am your nanny and I will be till I die.
I’ll never leave you even after I die, I’ll be your ghost nanny finds her voicing a little Cockney boy with a budding foot fetish, a song about wanting to play Joseph and the Catholic School kindergarten nativity play functions as an exploration of the way she struggled with being othered as a kid, But it also ends with another kid getting crushed by a cross and a pitch perfect Shakira impression. What do we have to number six here? Brandy Denise brandy signature standup bit centers on her previous career as a social worker when she says she’d often get hit on by her clients. You gotta have a lot of confidence to hit on your social worker. After the interview, you just told me you live in an underpass.
You haven’t had a job. You can’t feed you. I know you can’t feed me. Malik Ali sal how many comedians can say their journey ins to the performing arts began with their high school teacher attempting to pilot a theater program just to nurture their talents. Malik delivered book reports at his Islamic private school in Calgary with so much theatrical verb that one kind teacher was inspired to take up his cause.
It wasn’t long before the program was shut down by another teacher out of an abundance of religious precaution. He impersonates one such teacher with a flare for character work. It says, when you see the power of a laha on the day of judgment, brother, he will not be laughing. Continuing with Vulture’s Best New Comedians at twenty twenty four, are up to Roz Hernandez. Roz is loud, indignant, and ready to entrap both spirits and audience members, and her stand up, she leads audience members down a cliff by coaxing them into saying the other name for a water spritzer, which is mister, then getting offended that they misgendered her.
Part of the fun of Hernandez’s act is how her joyfully exuberanto style so directly contrasts her connection with the macabre. The classic hernanage image is of her in a zebra print coat with a blue feather collar, recapping how a ghost ruined her hookup by turning a lights on what her makeup wasn’t done. Those shady ass ghost said, sir, I want you to see what you’ve signed up for. That sounds fun and different. Ros Hernandez.
There, all right, Skyler Higley, I think we’re up to number eight here, if I’m counting correctly, and I’m probably not. Higgiley grew up in Utah as a black child of white Mormon parents. This is, as Higgley puts it on stage, half of What’s wrong with Him. He has a joke about being high on acid while writing Public Transportation and realizing a guy near him has his whole ass hanging out. I don’t want to look at ass.
I want to look at a beautiful sunset. I want to see a rainbow. But because I was tripping, I realize I’m not looking at ass. I’m looking at billions and billions of cells made up of billions and billions of atoms. That ass is amazing.
Thats good. Chloe Hilliard reached six foot one by the age of twelve. Her sense of humor stamps from being the awkward big girl at plenty of time to observe others. First day of high school, I walked into this sh the teacher’s here. That’s great.
Another bit LA’s origin story is the gold Rush. They were like, I’m going to be the one to find a nugget of gold and change my family’s life forever. That’s why today everyone in law say Liss is delusional. Hilliard wrote for a Black Lady’s Sketch Show, and wrote F Your Diet, which was awarded Best Comedy Book in twenty twenty A Leslie laugh when we have to number ten here or so I’m trying to do twelve. I realize I can’t do twenty four today.
In her twenty twenty three Netflix verified stand upset, Leslie said, I’m thirty six years old. I have a bedtime decisions to make. I don’t have a night. You need to give me information that matters to me. All I need to see is your manhood, clean that up and your paycheck.
When I was younger, I used to be sad about being single. Now I’m angry. I feel like when I find him, I’m gonna be like a mom whose kid got lost at the grocery store. Like where you’ve been get in the car. That was so embarrassing.
Everybody was staring at me. Mandw all caps M, A and DL, the Atlantic comedian possesses a rare Norm MacDonald like quality, where in his natural cadence, parlance, and body language make the journeys to his punchlines as rewarding as the punch lines themselves. All kinetic energy and the little giggles. He leans on animated stories and sprawling bits that build momentum as they unravel. Mendal’s work caught the attention of John Mulaney, who had him open for Everybody’s in La That’s Interesting.
He also opened for Melanie and the Netflix’s Joke Show at the Hollywood Bowl. And if I counted right, this is number twelve Gavin Mattz, who says, I’m not masculine. I’m just regular toxic. My toxicity has no masculinity. It’s hard to articulate.
He had a joke about police brutality that he did at the Comedy Seller. It’s hard to articulate that you’re intellectually insecure when you’re as dumb as hell. That’s why I understand why police gets so violent. As soon as they step on a college campus, they’re like, ah, everybody here reads, I gotta start hating somebody. Older people will be like, there’s two genders.
How would you know that you have six remotes? You have more remotes than their genders. I don’t think so. All right, that’s twelve for today or eleven or thirteen? You tell me I didn’t count.
Maybe we’ll continue this tomorrow, right, so that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and we’ll do something tomorrow. See then,