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Joe List

American comedian and actor (born 1982)

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Joseph Albert List (born April 6, 1982) is an American comedian and actor.

01Early life

Joseph Albert List was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on April 6, 1982 and grew up in Whitman, Massachusetts. He began performing stand-up comedy in Boston, Massachusetts in 2000, shortly after graduating from high school.

02Career

List has released two stand-up comedy albums, So Far No Good (2013), Are You Mad at Me? (2016). He has been featured on Conan and The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2015, he was a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing and recorded a half-hour comedy special on Comedy Central.

List has been a co-host of the weekly podcast Tuesdays with Stories alongside fellow comedian Mark Normand since early 2014. More recently, he has also hosted the Mindful Metal Jacket podcast and the Joe and Raanan Talk Movies podcast with comedian Raanan Hershberg. He is also a regular on Robert Kelly's podcast You Know What Dude.

In 2016, List toured the U.S. and Europe while opening for Louis C.K., which included three performances at Madison Square Garden. He is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York City.

In 2024, List began co-hosting the podcast The Regz, alongside comedians Dan Soder, Luis J. Gomez, and Robert Kelly.

List released a special for Netflix's The Standups in 2018. His next special, I Hate Myself, was self-produced and premiered on Comedy Central's YouTube channel in August 2020. In April 2022, he released a one-hour comedy special on his YouTube channel called This Year's Material. In August 2023, he released another one-hour special on YouTube called Enough for Everybody. in 2025, List released another comedy special on YouTube, Small Ball.

In 2022, he co-wrote (with Louis C.K.) and starred in Fourth of July, a comedy-drama film directed and produced by Louis C.K. In 2024, List directed and featured in the documentary Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian.

03Personal life

List is a recovering alcoholic and has been sober since 2012.

In 2017, List married Sarah Tollemache, a fellow comedian from Kingwood, Texas. They had a son in November 2023. They battled against each other on an episode of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle.

04Discography

  • So Far No Good (2011)
  • Are You Mad at Me? (2016)
  • I Hate Myself (2020)
  • This Year's Material (2022)
  • Enough for Everybody (2023)
  • Small Ball (2025)

05Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2020 I Hate Myself himself Comedy Central stand-up special
2022 Fourth of July Jeff
2022 This Year's Material himself YouTube stand-up special
2023 Civic Duty Short film
2023 Enough for Everybody himself YouTube stand-up special
2024 Stuck in Park Short film
2024 Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian Director/Himself Documentary
2024 Anxiety Club himself Documentary
2025 Small Ball himself YouTube stand-up special
    Watch videos about Joe ListExplainers and documentaries on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

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