Joseph Albert List (born April 6, 1982) is an American comedian and actor.
Joseph Albert List was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on April 6, 1982 and grew up in Whitman, Massachusetts[1]. He began performing stand-up comedy in Boston, Massachusetts in 2000, shortly after graduating from high school.[2][3]
List has released two stand-up comedy albums, So Far No Good (2013), Are You Mad at Me? (2016).[2] 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 2013.[4] More recently, he has also hosted the Mindful Metal Jacket podcast[5] and the Joe and Raanan Talk Movies podcast with comedian Raanan Hershberg.[6] 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.[2]
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.[7] His next special, I Hate Myself, was self-produced[8] and premiered on Comedy Central's YouTube channel in August 2020.[9] 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.[10]
List is a recovering alcoholic and has been sober since 2012.[8]
In 2017, List married Sarah Tollemache, a fellow comedian from Kingwood, Texas.[11] They battled against each other on an episode of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle.[12]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | I Hate Myself [13] | himself | Comedy Central stand-up special |
| 2022 | Fourth of July | Jeff | |
| 2022 | This Year's Material [14] | himself | YouTube stand-up special |
| 2023 | Civic Duty [15] | Short film | |
| 2023 | Enough for Everybody [16] | himself | YouTube stand-up special |
| 2024 | Stuck in Park [17] | Short film | |
| 2024 | Tom Dustin: Portrait of a Comedian | Director/Himself | Documentary |
| 2024 | Anxiety Club[18] | himself | Documentary |
| 2025 | Small Ball [19] | himself | YouTube stand-up special |
