If you know Kate, you know John Early too, right? There are a lot of comedians John and Kate inspired, so may I suggest looking into Vulture’s “Comedians You Will and Should Know” lists of the last few years - there’s tons of stuff there (Catherine Cohen, Jaboukie Young-White, etc.). Recommendations: I have to assume anyone who has heard of these people has also watched Bo Burnham’s specials, but if not, start there. With Kate, you also get notes of a queer sensibility, especially in terms of parodying performance. Both these comedians are cerebral and sensitive.

We hope this helps! James Acaster & Kate Berlantĭiagnosis: This is a neat combination, because it suggests an interest in comedians who play with the form of stand-up. And while we did our best to include as many comedy tastes and styles as possible, about half of the requests on Twitter included John Mulaney and someone else, so we let this list reflect that. For each pair, we gave an “diagnosis” - a brief description of what they represent - as well as a list of both known and up-and-coming recommendations that display similar styles, approaches, or material. We received a ton of responses on Twitter, so we tried our best to narrow it down to pairs that represented a variety of tastes and preferences. There were a variety of ways the pairs could be analyzed: What did they talk about? How did they talk about it - are they a big performer or understated? What are their tones like - sarcastic, grumpy, hopeful, sweet? From there, we came up with recommendations that either focused on the pairs’ similarities, or, in cases where people’s picks were actually quite different, we tried to think of suggestions that combined the essential elements the two comedians offered.

From there, we tried to glean as much as we could from this information. To do this, we put out a call on Twitter asking people for two comedians they already like. The challenge is that most stand-up recommendation stories are built around the taste of the writer, and while that has value critically, what about the tastes of readers? What if you’re looking for new comedians to check out who are similar to the very specific ones you already know and love? In the immortal words of the type of people who say things like this, You gotta laugh! Now more than, if you can believe it, ever. Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image

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