Your Comedy DNA
Your comedy DNA, read from the twelve comedians you follow: the lanes you laugh in, the generations you love, where your comics call home, your clean streak — and the comedy cousins you haven’t met yet.
Your comedy DNA, strand by strand
Worked out in this browser from your twelve. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Gene by gene: each comedian’s part in it
Your comedy cousins
Comedians you haven’t picked who are linked to your twelve on the record — a shared bill, a film, a series, a podcast, a show they both came up through, a voice that sounds alike.
Finding your cousins…
Your DNA card
Your comedy DNA on one card, in D.O.C.’s colors, ready for a story, a post or a group chat. It’s drawn here, on your device.
The card carries the page’s address: disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-dna.html
Comedy DNA match: you and a friend
Send your DNA to a friend, or paste theirs. You’ll see how many comedians you share and how far your comedy DNA overlaps.
Send your DNA to a friend
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How your comedy DNA is worked out
Each of your twelve counts once. A comedian in two lanes gives half to each, so the lane mix adds up to your whole twelve, with the comedians whose lane isn’t on record yet shown as their own share. The generation, home and clean strands count each comedian once where their record says, and the rest as a share of their own, not on record yet — so each of those strands adds up to your twelve too. Styles and subjects count every comedian who has the word, so they can add up to more than twelve.
Comedy cousins are ranked by how close their links to your twelve are, added up: a shared bill or a cast together counts for more than a style in common, and a comedian linked to several of your twelve counts each link. The friend match compares the two mixes strand by strand — the share both twelves have in common — and averages the strands both of you have on record.
Today D.O.C. knows a lane for 19 of the 1,374 comedians who can be in a twelve, a birth year for 508, a home for 694, clean or blue for 84, and styles for 359.
Questions about your comedy DNA
What is my comedy DNA?
A picture of your sense of humor drawn from the twelve comedians you keep on Your D.O.C.: the comedy lanes they work in, the generation they come from, where they are based, how many work clean, and the styles and subjects they share. Change your twelve and your DNA changes with it.
Where do the numbers come from?
From what D.O.C. holds on each comedian. Lanes come from Find Your Comedy Lane’s shelves. The generation is the decade each comedian was born, as their SUCDb record gives it. Home is where their record says they are based. Clean and blue count only where a published source says so: the comedian’s own site, a network’s page for their specials, or the press. Styles and subjects are the words behind Sounds Like.
Why does it say “not on record yet”?
Because nothing is guessed. A comedian with no lane on Find Your Comedy Lane, no published word on clean or blue, or no birth year or base in their record goes into a share of their own, marked not on record yet, so each strand still adds up to your whole twelve. As records grow, your DNA fills in.
Is anything sent anywhere?
No. Your DNA is worked out in this browser from your twelve, which is kept in this browser too. A link you send a friend carries your twelve in the address and nothing else.
How does the friend match work?
Send your DNA link, or paste a friend’s D.O.C. link here. You see how many comedians you share, then how far your DNA overlaps, strand by strand: lanes, generations, home bases, clean, and style. Each strand compares the mix of the two twelves, so two people can share no comedian and still match closely.
What are comedy cousins?
Comedians you haven’t picked who are linked to your twelve on the record: a bill they shared, a film, series or podcast they were in together, a show both came up through, a city both call home, or a voice that sounds alike. Each says why, and “Add to my D.O.C.” puts them in your next open seat.
- Your D.O.C. choose or change your twelve
- Find Your Comedy Lane twelve rounds to find your kind of funny
- Six Degrees of Komic Bacon how any two comedians connect
Updated 10 October 2026 · Privacy