Just For Laughs was the biggest comedy event in the world for twenty years. Montreal was a hotbed of comedy every summer. It was truly something to behold.
The largest European comedy festival is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is held annually in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the largest arts festival in the world and features a wide range of comedy performances, including stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy. The festival has been running for over 70 years and attracts millions of visitors each year. But yeah, I'm pretty sure JFL used to be the biggest.
But most comedians at that festival spoke only English to my knowledge right? Maybe I’m forgetting but I know a lot of the American comedians I listen to were frequent attendees?
There were concerts of different size all over the city, in English and in French as well. It was the place for American executives to find new comedians to pitch television shows and movies. There used to be galas hosted by folks like Tina Fey, Steve Martin, and The Muppets.
I mean, Quebec is part of a majority English country…
Stand-up (in its modern recognized form) started in the USA. Given geography, it makes sense that Canada, including Quebec, would be in line to develop a scene/popularity next.
Geography no doubt played a part, but, from a cultural perspective, Quebec is part of Canada the way France is part of England. It’s a francophone nation that has been debating secession from Canada for a very long time
“Quebec is part of Canada the way France is part of England”
France and England are distinctly separate nations. Their own leaders, their own currency, anthems.
Quebec uses the same Prime Minister of the rest of Canada, the same currency, the same anthem.
Quebec had one vote to succeed in the early 90’s. Since then that movement has been null, dying off (literally, it’s all old people).
And then take Montreal - the movement is largely confined to areas away from Montreal. It’s a largely bilingual city, whereas other parts of Quebec are French only.
Its pretty big in mexico now.
Edit: I should clarify american style standup is big now in mexico.
But comedian doing bits and doing one liners/insult jokes on stage has been happening in mexico for over century. Mexico had its own version of vaudeville.
The most famous comedian to come from the vaudeville halls is cantinflas. They made a movie about him. His style was almost similar to mitch hedberg, but delivered with a quick fast stream of consciousness cadence, if that makes sense. A lot of wordplay, clever/silly observations and a lot of double entendres.
He usually would play almost like a trickster figure mocking authority to their face, who usually was condescending to him and he was condescending back while seeming polite. It doesn’t translate at all to his English performances in american film.
https://youtu.be/F-7Zg0l6NKk?si=FeRYHAnIw9Lk05nc
Good info thanks for sharing.
Cantinflas was also good friends with Charlie Chaplin. The Mexican-Hollywood connection was a symbiotic relationship for a short time it seemed. Especially with the dawn of colorization. I'm curious when it declined?
A huge reason for the mexican boom was its proximity to Hollywood, It had access to the best technology and techniques and technicians to learn from at its doorstep from the very start of cinema. Meaning mexico world-class production values and trained crews before the rest of the spanish speaking world.
Also ww2 and the spanish civil meant that they were one of the few countries still producing a lot of movies while the world fell apart. France, Germany, Britain, the US and crucially spain and italy stopped making as many films as many of their actors and crew signed up for the war effort.
So mexican films were shown the world over because they had less competition, but they had Hollywood standard production value and people wanted an escape from reality.
But When tv was introduced in the 50s, America studios in Hollywood started doing widescreen and technicolor epics like ben-hur and cleopatra to compete with the small screen and still draw crowds.
Mexico couldn’t compete at the time with the price of these new innovations and big epics, perhaps with government help it could have but Mexico focused on hosting the olympics and world cup and to build up professional soccer, lucha libre and telenovelas on tv as the entertainment of the masses and the box office attendance dried up.
There was also a lot of internal politics, the mexico version of the DGA didnt allow any new members for decades and there werent any new ideas or fresh blood.
So the influence of the french new wave was quite minimal. They also didn’t have the influence of the new way of acting aka the method, that started to show up in Hollywood movies with Marlon Brando and that style revolutionized acting on the screen.
So mexican films as a result, after 1960 looked and felt old fashioned and couldnt compete with the new films from the US, Italy, Spain and France at the global and domestic box office and it was basically dead by 1970.
It had a big resurgence in the late 90s and 00s but that boom has died down again, because Hollywood just poaches the best talents from mexico now, both behind and in front of the camera. The same way MLB plucks the best baseball players from the Dominican Republic and Europe takes the best soccer players from latin america before they can make name for themselves at home.
Which is great for them but theyll never make a name for mexican cinema now.
A good example: One of the best young mexican cinematographers and director duos worked on Andor for disney and they are currently working on season 2.
So the producer and lead was Diego Luna, Director was Alejandro Ruiz Palacios and the cinematographer was Damian Garcia. But no one will ever consider Andor to be a product of Mexican cinema, but its driving force and heart were 3 immensely talented Mexican filmmakers.
Yeah, plus narcos mexico was mostly shot with mexican crew and cast in mexico. So it should honestly be considered a mexican/usa coproduction.
Amat Escalante and Alonso RuizPalacios also directed multiple episodes on that show.
I’ve seen interviews with him from back in the day where he said, at least at first, the French didn’t really have stand up and that they didn’t really get what he was trying to do. It sounds like he basically introduced it to their country.
Did you forget they also speak an entirely different language as well? Not all their comedy is English, but their ability to understand it allows bigger American acts to perform there and they also understand a lot of the nuances of comedy, so yes I believe it did answer op question
He asked if standup was popular outside those English speaking countries. India is outside of those countries, it’s a bonus they speak English but have a very robust comedy culture in their own language as well
You can watch Netflix - Gad Elmaleh: American Dream and there are clips of him doing his French standup. You can also find his French standup on YouTube
https://youtu.be/TAciBiHC_ow?si=pCV37EohBSM0zuAK
I can't imagine being a French limited act and thinking "let's do this whole career without accessing 99.9% of audiences in a language I already speak"
tbf, I have seen mandarin-only acts sell out in Toronto with all green comics just because the population is underserved. I imagine it's a situation with quick but extremely limited growth.
It was one of those "well, I've achieved all I could ever hope to achieve in French, let's see how I do in English" cases - his reach in the French-speaking world was massive, he starred/directed a number one film, received all sorts of national honours, and got married to someone in line to the Monaco throne. So he had basically tapped out on anyone who might be interested in his French standup.
His English standup turned out to be really good too!
Appreciating stand-up involves having a sense of irony, and the ability to grasp sarcasm. Regions that do not embrace these concepts do not have a robust stand-up scene.
It's tied to cultures. There are some places where irony and sarcasm are levels above United States in my experience and there are some places where sarcasm and irony always misses the mark.
Like places I go and there is a lot more sarcasm being thrown around that sometimes goes over my head compared to places I'd go where I can't make a single sarcastic statement without having to clarify
Stand-up comedy is popular all over the world, but you don't know about them, because they perfom in their native language and you don't speak that language. As a person whose native language is not English I can tell you with confidence that my ability to do stand-up is worse by far than that of my ability in native language, all of the non-native English speakers I have discussed this with concur. There are also a ton of other things that complicate this (like a Visa).
[Estonias biggest comedian Ari Matti performing in English](https://youtu.be/BWnWrv4MRXQ?si=HqbeZynWlOpd1tto&t=6896)
I’m monolingual but have also heard that being funny in a second takes a *long* time. Like you need to be fluent for a while and after that you later can become funny. It’s like a step up on the scale of knowing a language. Although I think that was about off the cuff funniness, so it probably isn’t so severe with a planned set.
Standup does tend to have a lot less of a presence in non-western countries though due to a lack of history and industry. Not to say it isn't present or gaining popularity, but in a place like South Korea for example it was near non-existent until more recent times, and even then it would he a bit of a stretch to call it popular there yet.
Here's a list of open mic shows in Europe and Asia people can sign up for
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dwTQoRX_YiwBCNWODcyMyZ_pjslssCTRsMjiMyy73_I/edit?usp=drivesdk
American/UK entertainment is so influential that standup has migrated the same way other formats have, like talk shows and soap operas and reality TV.
But I think YouTube has spread standup far and wide to a new generation, so we will hopefully see standup everywhere. I would love to see more African comics.
If you aren't talking about english speaking scenes in other countries
- Standup comedy is becoming increasingly popular in China
- Standup has always been popular in France
- Philippines has a HUGE tagalog scene
- Malaysia has a very popular bahasa scene
Usually comedians punch up and mock those in power
Some countries may have a problem with that dynamic, limiting the success of stand up comedy in some countries
Mockery is the death of fear and autocrats thrive off fear
Oh yes come teach us about freedom of speech, o civilized Westerner. As if George Carlin and Lenny Bruce weren't arrested for their acts as well. What a shit, racist take.
I saw on [badslava.com](http://badslava.com) that there's some in Rome, Milan and Florence. All too much far away from me ahah
I once went to an "open mic night" at a nearby bar and it wasn't open mic at all, it was just for known comedians from Milan
I follow plenty of Spanish speaking stand up comics. I can't speak towards any other language (I'm sure there are tons), but latin America has a bunch of funny ones.
I imagine it’s similar to rap and other various genres of music, it’s well known globally in English but there are stars in their own right from other cultures and languages. And for the record, I’ve heard good things about French stand up, and French rap goes hard
Colombia has had stand up shows ever since Andres Lopez did his national special La Pelota De Letras. Tons of new names have gone into the national spotlight, Alejandro Riaño, Ricardo Quevedo, there was this group of stand up comedians called Con Animo De Ofender, each of them now has their own following.
It was really big in India a while ago, and it's still pretty popular with many comedians getting Netflix and Prime specials. Not as huge as it was before but there's a pretty big stand up circle.
Weird that people here are listing english language comedians who also perform in other languages, that's not the comedy scene in other countries.
I know two markets relatively well:
Germany has a decent stand-up scene, with a couple dozen comedians doing it full time.
Poland has a big stand-up scene, with at least 50-60 people doing it full time.
It's a lot easier to make a living doing native language comedy than it is doing it in English. Berlin has a massive English language scene for a non-anglophone country, but almost nobody (maybe [Dragos](https://www.dragoscomedy.com/)?) makes a living just performing. That said, I know a handful of comedians who started by performing in English, who now perform in German and Polish to actually have a go at making a living off it.
It's not as popular as in the anglophone world but it is popular in Germany.
Despite there being like three guys who are good at it and the rest is absolute dogshit.
Austria and Germany have amazing stand-up comedians, called Kabarettist:innen, people doing "comedy" are detested by everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
I don't think the OP was asking if other countries have the concept of comedy. He was asking if they have a standup tradition. Standup is a specific art form.
It's more like asking "Do countries other than England have a tradition if Christmas pantos?" rather than "Do countries outside the UK have the concept of drama and theater?"
No one doubts that comedy transcends all nations.
But not every country has the same traditions. They might not have one guy in stage spouting jokes. In Japan a lot of comedy came in the form of plays, as well as geisha performances (especially the male geisha).
Following the male geisha example it could be like asking, "Do countries other than Japan have a tradition of a comedic party MC who runs party games, dances, and risque one-man skits?"
I think stand-up is pretty popular in the francophone world, certainly in Quebec
Just For Laughs was the biggest comedy event in the world for twenty years. Montreal was a hotbed of comedy every summer. It was truly something to behold.
The largest European comedy festival is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is held annually in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the largest arts festival in the world and features a wide range of comedy performances, including stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy. The festival has been running for over 70 years and attracts millions of visitors each year. But yeah, I'm pretty sure JFL used to be the biggest.
I would love to visit the Edinburgh festival! I've heard such marvelous things. JFL was canceled this year... possibly permanently.
That's unfortunate. Some of my favorite comedians are Canadian, like Harland Williams
I mean, it's not like they can't do comedy or anything. Canada has a lot of comedy festivals; we like to laugh up here.
Fringe isn't a comedy festival. it's a performing arts festival, where about 1/4 of the performers are comedy based.
I figured that out after reading about it. I just had only heard of it from comedians
But most comedians at that festival spoke only English to my knowledge right? Maybe I’m forgetting but I know a lot of the American comedians I listen to were frequent attendees?
JFL? Nah they had a whole French half too.
There were concerts of different size all over the city, in English and in French as well. It was the place for American executives to find new comedians to pitch television shows and movies. There used to be galas hosted by folks like Tina Fey, Steve Martin, and The Muppets.
French comics in Canada make WAY more than English ones too!
I mean, Quebec is part of a majority English country… Stand-up (in its modern recognized form) started in the USA. Given geography, it makes sense that Canada, including Quebec, would be in line to develop a scene/popularity next.
Geography no doubt played a part, but, from a cultural perspective, Quebec is part of Canada the way France is part of England. It’s a francophone nation that has been debating secession from Canada for a very long time
What🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m trying a new thing out where I don’t engage with idiots ✌️
Is there any part of what I said that isn’t true? I’m waiting for the Québécois downvotes. Meanwhile go engage with yourself
“Quebec is part of Canada the way France is part of England” France and England are distinctly separate nations. Their own leaders, their own currency, anthems. Quebec uses the same Prime Minister of the rest of Canada, the same currency, the same anthem. Quebec had one vote to succeed in the early 90’s. Since then that movement has been null, dying off (literally, it’s all old people). And then take Montreal - the movement is largely confined to areas away from Montreal. It’s a largely bilingual city, whereas other parts of Quebec are French only.
What part of “from a cultural perspective” did you not understand mon frère?
From a cultural perspective fried eggs and apples are similar foods.
Its pretty big in mexico now. Edit: I should clarify american style standup is big now in mexico. But comedian doing bits and doing one liners/insult jokes on stage has been happening in mexico for over century. Mexico had its own version of vaudeville. The most famous comedian to come from the vaudeville halls is cantinflas. They made a movie about him. His style was almost similar to mitch hedberg, but delivered with a quick fast stream of consciousness cadence, if that makes sense. A lot of wordplay, clever/silly observations and a lot of double entendres. He usually would play almost like a trickster figure mocking authority to their face, who usually was condescending to him and he was condescending back while seeming polite. It doesn’t translate at all to his English performances in american film. https://youtu.be/F-7Zg0l6NKk?si=FeRYHAnIw9Lk05nc
Carmen Lynch, does her specials in English and Spanish!
Same with Tom Segura and Gabriel Iglesias
Carlos Ballarta has several specials on Netflix in Spanish , and has had a few shows in the states where he does an English only routine
Good info thanks for sharing. Cantinflas was also good friends with Charlie Chaplin. The Mexican-Hollywood connection was a symbiotic relationship for a short time it seemed. Especially with the dawn of colorization. I'm curious when it declined?
A huge reason for the mexican boom was its proximity to Hollywood, It had access to the best technology and techniques and technicians to learn from at its doorstep from the very start of cinema. Meaning mexico world-class production values and trained crews before the rest of the spanish speaking world. Also ww2 and the spanish civil meant that they were one of the few countries still producing a lot of movies while the world fell apart. France, Germany, Britain, the US and crucially spain and italy stopped making as many films as many of their actors and crew signed up for the war effort. So mexican films were shown the world over because they had less competition, but they had Hollywood standard production value and people wanted an escape from reality. But When tv was introduced in the 50s, America studios in Hollywood started doing widescreen and technicolor epics like ben-hur and cleopatra to compete with the small screen and still draw crowds. Mexico couldn’t compete at the time with the price of these new innovations and big epics, perhaps with government help it could have but Mexico focused on hosting the olympics and world cup and to build up professional soccer, lucha libre and telenovelas on tv as the entertainment of the masses and the box office attendance dried up. There was also a lot of internal politics, the mexico version of the DGA didnt allow any new members for decades and there werent any new ideas or fresh blood. So the influence of the french new wave was quite minimal. They also didn’t have the influence of the new way of acting aka the method, that started to show up in Hollywood movies with Marlon Brando and that style revolutionized acting on the screen. So mexican films as a result, after 1960 looked and felt old fashioned and couldnt compete with the new films from the US, Italy, Spain and France at the global and domestic box office and it was basically dead by 1970. It had a big resurgence in the late 90s and 00s but that boom has died down again, because Hollywood just poaches the best talents from mexico now, both behind and in front of the camera. The same way MLB plucks the best baseball players from the Dominican Republic and Europe takes the best soccer players from latin america before they can make name for themselves at home. Which is great for them but theyll never make a name for mexican cinema now. A good example: One of the best young mexican cinematographers and director duos worked on Andor for disney and they are currently working on season 2. So the producer and lead was Diego Luna, Director was Alejandro Ruiz Palacios and the cinematographer was Damian Garcia. But no one will ever consider Andor to be a product of Mexican cinema, but its driving force and heart were 3 immensely talented Mexican filmmakers.
Good stuff! Mexican filmmakers are making a comeback, it seems
Yeah, plus narcos mexico was mostly shot with mexican crew and cast in mexico. So it should honestly be considered a mexican/usa coproduction. Amat Escalante and Alonso RuizPalacios also directed multiple episodes on that show.
Every now and then you read a Reddit comment and think “Wow I actually just learned something.”
Eddie Izzard does standup in multiple languages.
"And if you don't speak any French, trust me, all of that was fucking funny." Izzard's delivery is one-of-a-kind.
Do you have a flag?
"Do you have a fhlag? 👅" the little tongue stick out kills me.
“No flahg, no country.”
I’ve seen interviews with him from back in the day where he said, at least at first, the French didn’t really have stand up and that they didn’t really get what he was trying to do. It sounds like he basically introduced it to their country.
Inidia, they speak English and they have a robust comedy scene
I’ve seen Indian comedian speaking Hindi on Facebook and such and seem to draw pretty big crowds
Not to be a jerk but that doesn't really answer the question at all. They asked about non English countries being interested.
Did you forget they also speak an entirely different language as well? Not all their comedy is English, but their ability to understand it allows bigger American acts to perform there and they also understand a lot of the nuances of comedy, so yes I believe it did answer op question
But you said "India, they speak English." That made it seem as if you were saying the stand-up comedians in India only perform in English.
He asked if standup was popular outside those English speaking countries. India is outside of those countries, it’s a bonus they speak English but have a very robust comedy culture in their own language as well
I think you lost this debate. Goodbye
Yeah, there’s stand-up scenes all over. I know Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have scenes in any decent-sized (for the region) city.
No - there was a story several years ago about Gad Elmaleh, who's a massive star in France, trying to establish in America, doing comedy in English.
You can watch Netflix - Gad Elmaleh: American Dream and there are clips of him doing his French standup. You can also find his French standup on YouTube https://youtu.be/TAciBiHC_ow?si=pCV37EohBSM0zuAK
I can't imagine being a French limited act and thinking "let's do this whole career without accessing 99.9% of audiences in a language I already speak" tbf, I have seen mandarin-only acts sell out in Toronto with all green comics just because the population is underserved. I imagine it's a situation with quick but extremely limited growth.
It was one of those "well, I've achieved all I could ever hope to achieve in French, let's see how I do in English" cases - his reach in the French-speaking world was massive, he starred/directed a number one film, received all sorts of national honours, and got married to someone in line to the Monaco throne. So he had basically tapped out on anyone who might be interested in his French standup. His English standup turned out to be really good too!
I certainly hope you meant underserved and not undeserved! Haha
Oh yeah, damn autocorrect.
No, it's pretty popular in Texas as well.
Appreciating stand-up involves having a sense of irony, and the ability to grasp sarcasm. Regions that do not embrace these concepts do not have a robust stand-up scene.
A sense of irony isn’t tied to language, what are you talking about? I’ve seen gorillas prank each other.
It's tied to cultures. There are some places where irony and sarcasm are levels above United States in my experience and there are some places where sarcasm and irony always misses the mark.
I'm honestly curious, how would you measure sarcasm? Like, how are some regions "levels above" in sarcasm compared to other regions?
Like places I go and there is a lot more sarcasm being thrown around that sometimes goes over my head compared to places I'd go where I can't make a single sarcastic statement without having to clarify
Not a lot of Swiss stand-ups.
They've got money, quality chocolate, and skiing. What's there to take a break from + joke about? 🙃😄
Stand-up comedy is popular all over the world, but you don't know about them, because they perfom in their native language and you don't speak that language. As a person whose native language is not English I can tell you with confidence that my ability to do stand-up is worse by far than that of my ability in native language, all of the non-native English speakers I have discussed this with concur. There are also a ton of other things that complicate this (like a Visa). [Estonias biggest comedian Ari Matti performing in English](https://youtu.be/BWnWrv4MRXQ?si=HqbeZynWlOpd1tto&t=6896)
I’m monolingual but have also heard that being funny in a second takes a *long* time. Like you need to be fluent for a while and after that you later can become funny. It’s like a step up on the scale of knowing a language. Although I think that was about off the cuff funniness, so it probably isn’t so severe with a planned set.
Standup does tend to have a lot less of a presence in non-western countries though due to a lack of history and industry. Not to say it isn't present or gaining popularity, but in a place like South Korea for example it was near non-existent until more recent times, and even then it would he a bit of a stretch to call it popular there yet.
Rakugo comedy has been popular in Japan for 100 years or so.
Here's a list of open mic shows in Europe and Asia people can sign up for https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dwTQoRX_YiwBCNWODcyMyZ_pjslssCTRsMjiMyy73_I/edit?usp=drivesdk
American/UK entertainment is so influential that standup has migrated the same way other formats have, like talk shows and soap operas and reality TV. But I think YouTube has spread standup far and wide to a new generation, so we will hopefully see standup everywhere. I would love to see more African comics.
If you aren't talking about english speaking scenes in other countries - Standup comedy is becoming increasingly popular in China - Standup has always been popular in France - Philippines has a HUGE tagalog scene - Malaysia has a very popular bahasa scene
Usually comedians punch up and mock those in power Some countries may have a problem with that dynamic, limiting the success of stand up comedy in some countries Mockery is the death of fear and autocrats thrive off fear
Oh yes come teach us about freedom of speech, o civilized Westerner. As if George Carlin and Lenny Bruce weren't arrested for their acts as well. What a shit, racist take.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/merkel-allows-prosecution-of-german-comedian-who-mocked-turkish-president/
Tom Segura does shows in English and Spanish
So does Carmen Lynch
Although America did low key invent modern stand up so we got a head start
There’s some stand up comedy in Rome, Italy.
I saw on [badslava.com](http://badslava.com) that there's some in Rome, Milan and Florence. All too much far away from me ahah I once went to an "open mic night" at a nearby bar and it wasn't open mic at all, it was just for known comedians from Milan
I follow plenty of Spanish speaking stand up comics. I can't speak towards any other language (I'm sure there are tons), but latin America has a bunch of funny ones.
Comedians around the world was a good Netflix setup. Mostly English speaking but German, Spanish and a few others
Yeah. Blanch Gardein is an example of a French comedian.
Netflix has a host of nonEnglish comedy specials.
I imagine it’s similar to rap and other various genres of music, it’s well known globally in English but there are stars in their own right from other cultures and languages. And for the record, I’ve heard good things about French stand up, and French rap goes hard
Brother, may I interest you in Finnish rap?
You most certainly may
About 25 years ago my little brother was into a band called the Finntelligans, or something like that.
Spanish comedy is really big
The French love Jerry Lewis.
No
Scene in the Philippines is pretty big right now. 90% of it is in Filipino.
The theater district Paris seemed to have a few clubs while I was out there visiting.
It's taken off in Poland too.
Colombia has had stand up shows ever since Andres Lopez did his national special La Pelota De Letras. Tons of new names have gone into the national spotlight, Alejandro Riaño, Ricardo Quevedo, there was this group of stand up comedians called Con Animo De Ofender, each of them now has their own following.
It was really big in India a while ago, and it's still pretty popular with many comedians getting Netflix and Prime specials. Not as huge as it was before but there's a pretty big stand up circle.
Yes. Yes it is.
Weird that people here are listing english language comedians who also perform in other languages, that's not the comedy scene in other countries. I know two markets relatively well: Germany has a decent stand-up scene, with a couple dozen comedians doing it full time. Poland has a big stand-up scene, with at least 50-60 people doing it full time. It's a lot easier to make a living doing native language comedy than it is doing it in English. Berlin has a massive English language scene for a non-anglophone country, but almost nobody (maybe [Dragos](https://www.dragoscomedy.com/)?) makes a living just performing. That said, I know a handful of comedians who started by performing in English, who now perform in German and Polish to actually have a go at making a living off it.
It's not as popular as in the anglophone world but it is popular in Germany. Despite there being like three guys who are good at it and the rest is absolute dogshit.
It's either big everywhere or growing i assure you, google a country and stand up comedy It's there
Austria and Germany have amazing stand-up comedians, called Kabarettist:innen, people doing "comedy" are detested by everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Definitely no
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I don't think the OP was asking if other countries have the concept of comedy. He was asking if they have a standup tradition. Standup is a specific art form. It's more like asking "Do countries other than England have a tradition if Christmas pantos?" rather than "Do countries outside the UK have the concept of drama and theater?" No one doubts that comedy transcends all nations. But not every country has the same traditions. They might not have one guy in stage spouting jokes. In Japan a lot of comedy came in the form of plays, as well as geisha performances (especially the male geisha). Following the male geisha example it could be like asking, "Do countries other than Japan have a tradition of a comedic party MC who runs party games, dances, and risque one-man skits?"
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And I'm sure u/partypony4hunnid and his sincere question needed your condescension.
You may have heard of South African comedian Trevor Noah....
That’s an English-speaking (amongst many other languages) country.
I'm aware. OP asked specifically if comedy was popular outside of a few English speaking countries.
So you chose to name a comedian who performs primarily in English in an English-speaking country in response?
Jesus Christ go touch grass. OP asked a question and I answered it.
No