USA standup comedians are some of the top-rated comedians in the world. USA has produced comedians including people who made their names as standup comics and then went on to have great careers in other areas of entertainment and media. Here are the top 5 standup comedians in USA.
Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer is one of the biggest standup comedians in USA. In 2007 she started to gain attention when she was a finalist on the 5th season of NBC’s, Last Comic Standing. Amy has participated in Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Howard Stern, The View, and The Opie and Anthony Show. After 2013 Amy Schumer is the star, co-writer, and co-producer of the Comedy Central series, which has received positive reviews. In May 2015 Schumer performed at the famous Apollo Theater and awarded for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. In 2016 Amy Launched her first book he Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo and had big best sellers in USA.
Andrew Schulz
Andrew Schulz is one of the best young stand-up comedians in USA. After working at a restaurant near his college, UC Santa Barbara he turned to stand up, because the restaurant had a comedy night, so Schulz’s co-workers encouraged him to perform. Then he returned to the East Coast to join the New York City comedy scene. In 2008, Schulz performed the worldwide famous Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Now he is performing in the top comedy clubs in the city such as the Comedy Cellar, Stand Up NY, and the Village Lantern. On April 4th till April 7th he is going to entertain the audience in Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. Check for more comedy events in New York.
Brian Scott McFadden
Brian Scott McFadden is one of the incredible standup comedians in USA also, he is working as writer and actor. He performed in Late Show with David Letterman. Brian has recently taken his act to a whole new level with his high energy performances & some of the most unique, incisive and hilarious routines around. After performing on The Late Show with David Letterman Brian followed that up with an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. Brian also was recently seen on the big screen in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller. Also, performed in movies like Ice Age II with Ray Romano and Robots with Robin Williams and Halle Berry.
Chris Rock
Chris Rock one of the iconic standup comedians in USA. Comedy Central named Rock one of the five greatest stand up comedians of all-time. He started as a cast member on Saturday Night Live in the 90’s, where he gained popularity from the viewer. after he got noticed Rock launched his HBO special, Bring The Pain one of the greatest comedy specials ever recorded world wide. He got his own HBO talk show, The Chris Rock Show, which won Emmy Awards and high ratings. Chris Rock has a lot of stand up comedy live show tour across America especially in Los Angeles and New York City. Discover more events in Los Angeles this weekend.
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari is one of the biggest standup comedians in USA and worldwide today. He has millions of fans across the world. Aziz started in the national scene as a writer and co-creator of MTV’s smash hit Human Giant, a sketch comedy series which ran for multiple seasons. he is known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015 and as creator and star of the Netflix series Master of None in 2015. he won a lot of acting and writing awards, such as two Emmys and a Golden Globe for Best Actor Television Series Musical or Comedy.
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Tarek writes for Chillwall on fun events near me around the world.