Joe List

Joe List, born Joseph Albert List on April 6, 1982, is an American comedian and actor. He was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts and grew up in Whitman, Massachusetts, where he attended Whitman-Hanson Regional High School. He began performing stand-up comedy in Boston in 2000, shortly after graduating from high school. List has released two stand-up albums, So Far No Good and Are You Mad at Me? (2016), and 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 special on Comedy Central.

List is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York City and toured the U.S. and Europe in 2016 opening for Louis C.K., which included three performances at Madison Square Garden. He has released several specials, beginning with one for Netflix's The Standups in 2018, followed by the self-produced I Hate Myself (2020) and the YouTube specials This Year's Material (2022), Enough for Everybody (2023), and Small Ball (2025). In 2022 he co-wrote with Louis C.K. and starred in the comedy-drama film Fourth of July, and in 2024 he directed and featured in the documentary Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian.

List has co-hosted the weekly podcast Tuesdays with Stories alongside Mark Normand since early 2014, and in 2024 began co-hosting the podcast The Regz with Dan Soder, Luis J. Gomez, and Robert Kelly. He is a recovering alcoholic and has been sober since 2012. In 2017 he married Sarah Tollemache, a fellow comedian from Kingwood, Texas, and the two battled each other on an episode of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle.