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He is the best up and coming comedian. It might be better to say he already is here and just killing it. His consistency on yt is great. I saw him at a club and he was great. He has great presence and story telling.
This man is the next comic that will be compared to the other goats.
Not only is he putting out great sets, but he is churning them out at a crazy rate. My friends and I cannot believe how often he’s just like “here’s a 45 min set on the events of the past 3 days” like how does he have time!?!
It's actually unreal how much material he's putting out so rapidly. No other standup comedian does anything close to this.
Comedians go on tour performing the same routine, just in different cities. Maybe they'll revise and adjust it over the course of the tour, and often leave a little room for improv crowd work, but the main routine that is planned and rehearsed is something they write once per tour.
So for Josh Johnson to have an entirely new routine every single week, it's unheard of. He isn't just someone who will go down in history next to the pantheon of greats, he's in his own league doing something none of the greats can be compared to.
It's crazy how much drive he has. He has so much talent. I'm glad he's getting recognized.
He can write them quickly because he's usually not really doing standup. Like he's not tying together a series of unrelated jokes with a common thread, his sets are usually about one topic.
I do NOT mean that disparagingly - I really like him! But talking about current events and cracking some jokes and callbacks along the way takes a lot less preparation (but not necessarily skill) than what most comics aim for.
His sets are only nominally about one topic. He intersperses a lot of unrelated or distantly related stories and jokes in as well.
Yeah, I just mean it's an atypical style of comedy for standup. Instead of finding the thread to connect stories, it's finding the stories for the thread.
Again I am not saying it's worse, he's my favorite US comic in a decade.
Oh, I'm with you. But I think most people are not familiar with Josh Johnson and I want them to have a fuller idea of what his sets are like. He is a treasure and I hope he succeeds the way I expect him to. Or the way he wants to.
That makes sense. I think that format is something we need more of now. He is able to walk through tough topics with fun appeal.
Might be a weird suggestion but check out the steamer Atrioc. I've never watched him live but he uploads edited streams to YouTube where he talks about current events. His presentation is usually pretty funny