Intro, Sept 1^st 2026

Because incoming statistics show me that many people land upon blog pages through search (or via a chatbot of some flavour) I started a while back to try and tailor post wording to make sense as a stand-alone text. Which means a bit of repetition…but, hey ho.

At least, if you look at the posts for the other social account totals, you will be able to skip this intro section!! It will be identical on all of these pages today.

This mini project is my regular perusal of what started out as around 100 comedians from UK / US and one from India. Over time this number has been whittled down – and the “why” and how the starts are collected are detailed on the Reporting page (here).

It’s been two months since I last analysed the data and those previous links are:

• X / Twitter – here (updated 29 June 2026)
• Facebook – here (updated 29 June 2026)
• Instagram – here (updated 29 June 2026)
• TikTok – here (updated 29 June 2026)
• YouTube – here (updated 28 June 2026)
• The above 5 platforms combined, subs/followers – here (updated 29 June 2026)

Note that, at some point, this post will become outdated and the most recent stats reports are always linked on the Stats page – here.

This time around we are down to 27 people as the June combined numbers had Stavros Halkias and Andrew Santino at the bottom of the table.

John Mulaney and Peter Kay are looking vulnerable for next time!!

As ever – Golden squares indicate Top 3 Brits and the Blue are Top 3 US / India.

Note also that Joe Rogan is a bit of an anomaly as the accounts are mostly his podcast (Joe Rogan Experience) which skews the numbers massively.

Facebook Followers

Facebook is kind of the original “legacy” platform that the old timers started out on – but it still seems to be doing the business.

The image below has more of a story to tell – how much have these people grown their account followers?

Looking at the Brits, in the 2 months of Jul/Aug Jimmy added 240,183 – but it’s the outer column that is more impressive. In 2026 to date he’s added 953,800.

Michael McIntyre has been putting out more content lately – but, although he has more followers overall, he’s only added 594,897.

As already mentioned on the TikTok update (here) Max Amini is going great guns this year (as is Matt Rife).

I’ve no answers for why the 4 names down the bottom are in negative growth figures.