Favourite stand-up comedians?

[Willie Oleson]

Last night I've been watching lots of YT videos from Hans Teeuwen's cabaret performances and he's such an overwhelmingly energetic beast. He even looks like a Willem Dafoe caricature.
I didn't know that he had also performed in England, with good reviews, so I've watched some of that too.
His English is flawless (to me anyway) and the essence of the show is still the same.

But each language is a treasure, and my favourite part of comedy is to watch/hear a performer to play with that language because it's so intertwined with history and culture that even without the jokes that culture is being ridiculed and stereotyped.
And I think it's very hard to "get" that in a foreign language.

The big bombshell jokes, the ones that are being told with a build-up, hardly work for me.
These jokes that get the loudest laughs and applause...somehow it makes me feel redundant, which is why I would never go to see these live performances myself.
The thought that someone (and the performer in particular) would notice that I'm not laughing, not even a smile, just terrifies me.

My favourite comedian is Brigitte Kaandorp ("my English stage name would be Bridget KaneVillage" - ha ha!) who likes to mock everything and everyone in a quasi-apologetic fashion, very different from the angry-shouty male comedians.

Anyway, here's a tube-snippet of Hans' UK show:

He's also an outstanding songwriter and musician (imo).

 

[Willie Oleson]

OMG, this is genius - to combine Dutch with English in a 100% faultless way.

What's going on here is:
He ends every Dutch sentence with a Dutch word that sounds exacly like the English translation of the word before that last word.

e.g. "Wat brutaal dat je die ridder naait!" (How rude of you to fak that knight!)
Naait sounds like knight, and knight means ridder.
Result -> "Wat brutaal dat je die ridder knight", but it's still correct Dutch. So clever!

 

[Emelee]

My #1 is Johan Glans (Swedish). He's got terrific timing, is kinda neardy (which he plays a bit on) and he's hilarious. Just seeing him puts a smile on my face. I've seen him live twice.

Here's him talking about waking up after a night of drinking, first thinking you didn't make a fool of yourself, then starting having flashbacks. Also, particularly how one Danish football fan must have felt the morning after drunkenly storming the pitch of a very important match between Denmark & Sweden, causing the referee to stop the match and awarding the victory to Sweden (a true story that he spun further on).

Another Swede I like is Magnus Betnér, a total opposite of Johan Glans. Rough and somewhat confrontational, always trying to find the illogical or absurd in theories, laws, beliefs and human nature. I've seen him live once.

Here's a rare clip of him in English:

I prefer Swedish stand-up as it's easier to relate to the topics. But I have some I like outside Sweden. Trevor Noah, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer and Whitney Cummings come to mind.

I realize there are lots and lots of terrific stand-up comedians to discover, but I tend to focus most on the ones I already am familiar with and like. Most of them are Swedish, again much because of the recognition factor & topics.