Political comedians
70 political comedians, A to Z: each with the line from their SUCDb record or the published source that says so, and their next date where they have one.
- 70comedians on the list
- 22with a date on the Comedy Calendar
- 17with a special on record
- 15hosting a podcast
On stage soon
The next date for the 8 on this list with a show coming up, the soonest first (22 in all).
- 13NovAdam ConoverVermont Comedy Club, Burlington, VT
- 13NovAmy MillerMic Drop Comedy Plano, Plano, TX
- 13NovJavier NegreteThe Riot Conroe, Conroe, TX
- 13NovRussell PetersCrown Live, Melbourne, Australia
- 15NovCaroline HanesComic Strip Live, New York, NY
- 15NovFabrizio CopanoNew York Comedy Club – Midtown, New York, NY
- 18NovElena GabrielleBroadway Comedy Club, New York, NY
- 19NovCostaki EconomopoulosTony M’s Restaurant, Lansing, MI
Political comedians, A to Z
Each is here because their record or a published source says so, beside their name. 22 of them have a date on the Comedy Calendar.
- Abdul Kader Chahin is a German stand-up comedian, slam poet and podcaster who grew up in Duisburg, and whose sets mix rough humour with political jabs and satire, drawing on life in the city's prefab housing estates and on… Official site ↗
- Investigative comedian, writer and host; creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything, host of Factually!, and stand-up comic whose special Unmedicated was released on Dropout and later made available by Conover himself. thecomedystore.com ↗ Next: 13 November 2026 · Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, VT →
- Alistair Barrie is a comedian, actor and writer who headlines on the international comedy circuit with topical material. Nottingham Comedy Festival ↗
- Amy Miller is a stand-up comedian from the East Bay who started out in Oakland and rose through the Portland, Oregon, scene, where she won Helium Comedy Club's Portland's Funniest contest and was voted Portland's Funniest… amymillercomedy.com ↗ Next: 13 November 2026 · Mic Drop Comedy Plano, Plano, TX →
- British satirical comedian and broadcaster who hosts The News Quiz and The Bugle, serves as a statistician on Test Match Special and won Taskmaster series 18. Wikipedia ↗
- Topical stand-up comedian and longtime Comedy Store paid regular based in Los Angeles. Wikipedia ↗ Next: 20 November 2026 · The Comedy Store, Los Angeles, CA →
- Influential stand-up comedian, political satirist and activist closely associated with the development of Boston's comedy scene. The Washington Post obituary ↗
- Egyptian surgeon turned satirist and stand-up performer best known as host of Al Bernameg. Broward Center — Belly of the Beast Tour ↗
- American stand-up comedian and satirist whose dark, confrontational material on religion, politics, consumerism and drugs took shape at Houston's Comedy Workshop, where he began performing at 16. Wikipedia ↗
- Bill Maher is a stand-up comedian, satirist and television host who hosts Real Time with Bill Maher and its companion Overtime on HBO, and the YouTube conversation series Club Random. HBO ↗
- Caroline Hanes is a New York City comedian and writer who performs regularly at New York Comedy Club and The Comic Strip Live. thestandnyc.com ↗ Next: 15 November 2026 · Comic Strip Live, New York, NY →
- He won the Chortle Award for best compere in 2003, turned Civilization into a BBC Radio 4 series, co-wrote and co-starred in Radio 4's political satire The Department, and was a regular panellist on Mock the Week. Avalon ↗
- Costaki Economopoulos is a stand-up comedian, born in Fort Lauderdale and raised in Kennesaw, Georgia, who began doing stand-up in 1993 while writing a master's thesis on political satire at the University of Georgia and was a… Official site, About ↗ Next: 19 November 2026 · Tony M’s Restaurant, Lansing, MI →
- Stand-up comedian, actor, author and radio host best known as one of The Original Kings of Comedy and as star/producer of The Hughleys. dlhughleygigs.com ↗ Next: 27 November 2026 · Tommy T's Comedy Club, Pleasanton, CA →
- Damien Slash is a comedian and satirist who publishes satire and parody on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and has a radio comedy show. Linktree ↗
- He has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV and ABC's The View, and co-wrote the political comedy book The Liberal Redneck Manifesto. Official site ↗ Next: 13 December 2026 · Huntsville Levity Live, Huntsville, AL →
- American stand-up comedian, writer and animal-rescue activist from Brooklyn who began at The Improv in New York in 1973 and was one of the few women working in stand-up in the 1970s and '80s, known for frank observational and… Wikipedia ↗
- Elena Gabrielle is an Australian-born, Berlin-based stand-up comedian whose act joins satire on modern relationships with musical impressions. Broadway Comedy Club ↗ Next: 18 November 2026 · Broadway Comedy Club, New York, NY →
- Eric Schwartz is a stand-up comedian and musician from the Los Angeles area whose act mixes stand-up, musical comedy and multimedia, drawing on his Jewish and Mexican family. ericschwartzlive.com ↗ Next: 20 January 2027 · San Jose Improv, San Jose, CA →
- Fabrizio Copano is a Chilean stand-up comedian, actor and writer who has performed stand-up for more than a decade, from bars in Santiago to the Viña del Mar festival, where he won the Silver and Gold Seagulls in 2017 and 2023. redgol.cl ↗ Next: 15 November 2026 · New York Comedy Club – Midtown, New York, NY →
- Friedemann Weise is a comedian, satirist, author and songwriter from Cologne whose act mixes short jokes, absurd stories, three-chord comic songs and pictures thrown on a big screen. Agentur Knoch ↗
- American stand-up comedian who began performing in 2013, was selected as a New Face at Just for Laughs Montreal and is a regular at New York's Comedy Cellar. chortle.co.uk ↗ Next: 20 November 2026 · The DC Improv, Washington, DC →
- American stand-up comedian, satirist and author, widely regarded as one of the most influential comedians of all time, known for routines on language, politics and religion. npr.org ↗
- Harun Musho'd is a London stand-up comedian whose sets mix political material with observational comedy and stories from his family history. Glasgow International Comedy Festival — A Political Brunch ↗
- His comedy blends surreal and satirical humor, delivered in a theatrical style. Improv ↗
- His style combines animated storytelling, observational humor and some political satire, and he names George Lopez and Dave Chappelle among his influences. The Riot Conroe ↗ Next: 13 November 2026 · The Riot Conroe, Conroe, TX →
- His one-man shows draw on stand-up, historical comedy and political satire, and his latest comes after several years away from the stage. Namur is a Joke ↗
- Australian stand-up comedian, actor and writer whose catalog runs from Contraband through ten specials, including the 2025 Netflix release Two Limb Policy. netflix.com ↗ Next: 20 November 2026 · Meridian Hall, Toronto, ON →
- Joe Wells is a stand-up comedian who made his name as a political comedian with Fringe shows including Night Of The Living Tories, 10 Things I Hate About UKIP and I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative. Official site ↗
- John Flint is a Scottish comedian billed as a political comic. Chortle ↗
- He has directed shows by Eddie Izzard and Reginald D. Hunter, and he hosted and co-created The RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance), a daily late-night topical comedy talk show that ran for 60 episodes on BBC Choice. Off The Kerb ↗
- They also work as an actor, writer and lyricist, and perform hard-hitting, topical comedy. Out of Bounds Comedy Festival ↗
- He wrote and starred in two series of the Radio 4 sitcom Josh Howie's Losing It, broadcast in 2016 and 2018, presented Sky Movies' The Movie Geek, and moved into nightly topical comedy as a weekday host of GB News's paper-review… Wikipedia ↗
- Justine Wanda is a Kenyan stand-up comic, writer and satirist based in Nairobi. OkayAfrica - What It's Like To Be a Working Stand-Up Comedian and Satirist in Kenya ↗
- In a 2015 Newslaundry interview he said he does no political material on stage. Newslaundry ↗
- Stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer who began performing stand-up as a teenager and built a national club and arena career. netflix.com ↗
- Kunal Kamra is a Hindi-language stand-up comedian and satirist from Mumbai whose comedy turns politics and the media into widely shared clips. Cap City Comedy Club — Special Event ↗ Next: 14 April 2027 · Cap City Comedy Club, Austin, TX →
- Comedian, writer, producer, actor and host who began in stand-up before moving deeply into television writing and production. radiowest.kuer.org ↗
- Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist whose free-wheeling act mixed satire, politics, religion, sex and vulgarity. Wikipedia ↗
- Lizz Winstead is an American stand-up comedian, writer and political satirist who co-created Comedy Central's The Daily Show and served as its head writer. Penguin Random House ↗
- New York–based comedian and satirist who performs in character as a satirical persona. The Stand ↗
- Maureen Langan is a stand-up comedian, broadcaster and satirist from New Jersey who was a semifinalist on the eighteenth season of America's Got Talent, earning a standing ovation and four yeses. Galway Comedy Festival 2026 ↗ Next: 21 November 2026 · Old York Cellars, East Amwell Township, NJ →
- Comedian, writer, actress, voice performer and creator whose work includes stand-up, digital series and television. melindahill.com ↗
- His political comedy has featured on SBS Viceland's The Feed, he hosts the SBS documentary series Where Are You Really From?, and he appeared in the Stan series The Other Guy. Official site ↗
- He fronted the topical comedy series The Nation on the Nine network in 2007. Funny Guys ↗
- In 2025 Cucchiella opened the HammerJokes comedy club on the lower level of the Bowman Restaurant in Parkville, and describes the act as Irish long-form storytelling and political satire with a Baltimore edge. Baltimore Fishbowl - Dan Rodricks: The Mickey Cucchiella Comeback reaches a new stage at HammerJokes in Parkville ↗
- Canadian-born American comedian and political satirist who made his professional debut at San Francisco's hungry i in 1953 and pioneered topical stand-up delivered as improvised monologues, often with a newspaper as his only prop. Wikipedia ↗
- Nish Kumar is a British stand-up comedian known for sharp political comedy, with five solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, two of which were nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, in 2015 and 2016. Official site (Who Is Nish Kumar?) ↗
- His stand-up shows run from No Agenda (2008) and Schmuck for a Night (2016) to The Good Times Tour (2021) and Namaste, which in 2026 also became a topical stand-up series on BBC Radio 4. Chortle — Colin From Accounts back for a third and final series (6 September 2026) ↗
- Comedian, writer and actor who wrote for Richard Pryor — including material for his albums and, as head writer, The Richard Pryor Show — as well as Sanford and Son and the first year of In Living Color, and played Negrodamus on… bostonglobe.com ↗
- Peter Cook was an English comedian, actor, satirist and writer, born in Torquay and educated at Cambridge, where he became president of the Footlights. Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead - Peter Edward Cook ↗
- Philipp Kostelecky is a New York-based stand-up comedian who started comedy in London in 2018 and is known for physical comedy, accents and impressions shaped by his American-Slovenian and Austrian family background. philippkostelecky.com ↗
- A Scroll.in video features a set of political stand-up comedy of his. Scroll.in - 'Politicians ka Roast': This stand-up comic calls out leaders for their bizarre statements ↗
- Robert Baril is a political stand-up comedian from the Twin Cities. The Comedy Lounge ↗ Next: 4 February 2027 · The Comedy Lounge, Boise, ID →
- Rosie Holt is a LAMDA-trained actor, writer, comedian and satirist who became known during the Covid lockdowns for spoof online videos in which she played Tory figures interviewed from home, work that won the Chortle Social… Chortle ↗
- Russell Peters is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor and producer from Toronto, now living in Los Angeles, known for comedy about race, culture and his Anglo-Indian upbringing. netflix.com ↗ Next: 13 November 2026 · Crown Live, Melbourne, Australia →
- Ryan Long is a Canadian stand-up comedian, filmmaker and podcaster from Toronto who moved to the United States in 2019 and is based in New York City, where he performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar, New York Comedy Club and The Stand. ryanlongcomedy.com ↗ Next: 20 November 2026 · Wiseguys Comedy Club – The Gateway, Salt Lake City, UT →
- Salma Lyons, billed as Salma Habib Lyons, is a British Pakistani stand-up comedian whose material mixes political commentary with personal stories. Glasgow International Comedy Festival - Salma Habib Lyons: Work In Progress ↗
- Sam Sferrazza is a Toronto-based stand-up comedian known for his wit, political satire and relatable rants. CBC Gem — The New Wave of Standup, season 5, episode 6 ↗
- Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcast host who was a Saturday Night Live featured player in 1993–1994. slate.com ↗
- Scott Blakeman is a stand-up comedian who performs political humor from a liberal Jewish point of view. Official site ↗
- Sean Meo is an established stand-up comedian who regularly headlines at Jongleurs and The Comedy Store, where he is a member of The Cutting Edge topical comedy team. Chortle ↗
- She is a correspondent on the political comedy talk show Going Down with Ella Yurman and finished her debut short film, Pacchai, in the fall of 2026. New York Comedy Festival ↗
- Te Radar is a New Zealand stand-up comedian, satirist, documentary maker and writer, who has won comedy awards from the Fred Award to the Billy T. He has starred in TVNZ programmes including Off the Radar, Radars Patch, Global… Classic Comedy NZ ↗
- His television credits include a political comedy chat show on Banter (TVNZ Duke), 7 Days and Jono and Ben at Ten, and he has produced shows including The Male Gayz and No Experience Necessary. Classic Comedy NZ ↗
- Tim Dillon is a stand-up comedian and podcaster from Island Park, New York, and the host of The Tim Dillon Show. improv.com ↗ Next: 23 November 2026 · The Comedy Store, Los Angeles, CA →
- Stand-up comedian, writer and author known for the Liberal Redneck persona and for touring both solo and with the wellRED comedy group. npr.org ↗ Next: 13 December 2026 · Huntsville Levity Live, Huntsville, AL →
- Emmy-winning stand-up comedian, writer, actor and producer. pastemagazine.com ↗ Next: 1 April 2027 · The Stress Factory Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT →
- Will Durst is a San Francisco stand-up comedian and political satirist, a five-time Emmy nominee with seven nominations for Stand-Up of the Year and more than 800 television appearances on networks from Showtime, HBO and CNN to the BBC. Official site ↗
- Zach Rushing is a stand-up comedian born and raised in Woolmarket, Mississippi, who tells stories from his down-home life and has toured the country with his Not So Rich & Famous Comedy Tour, playing clubs and theaters. thestate.org ↗ Next: 2 April 2027 · Huntsville Levity Live, Huntsville, AL →
More lists of stand-up comedians
- British stand-up comedians 302
- Canadian stand-up comedians 108
- Irish stand-up comedians 58
- Australian stand-up comedians 100
- New Zealand stand-up comedians 103
- Clean stand-up comedians 100
- New York City stand-up comedians 521
- Los Angeles stand-up comedians 390
- Austin stand-up comedians 39
- Nashville stand-up comedians 22
- Stand-up comedians with Netflix specials 178
- Stand-up comedians with HBO specials 91
- Stand-up comedians with Comedy Central specials 210
- Female stand-up comedians 939
- Comedians from California 88
- Comedians from Florida 21
- Comedians from Georgia 25
- Comedians from Illinois 61
- Comedians from Maryland 15
- Comedians from Massachusetts 43
- Comedians from Michigan 26
- Comedians from Minnesota 17
- Comedians from Missouri 22
- Comedians from New Jersey 51
- Comedians from New York 170
- Comedians from Ohio 29
- Comedians from Pennsylvania 43
- Comedians from Texas 32
- Comedians from Washington 17
- Storytelling comedians 381
- Observational comedians 199
- Crowd work comedians 109
- One-liner comedians 82
- Character comedians and impressionists 145
- Musical comedians 80
- Dark comedians 33
- Absurdist comedians 50
- Deadpan comedians 106
- High-energy comedians 154
- Confessional comedians 98
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