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Note that, at some point, this post will become outdated and the most recent stats reports are always linked on the Stats page – here.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

Instagram Followers

As with the other social accounts, that I’ve just posted about, we keep seeing the same people (mostly) hitting the Top 3 positions. More on that when we get to the final post, combining all of the numbers.

Once again, there’s more of a story to tell if we sort by the Instagram account’s follower growth for 2026 (column on the right, below).

Jimmy is hot on Max Amini’s heels and almost 684k ahead of the next Brit (Ricky).

Jimmy’s Facebook account grew by 953k this year (here) and his TikTok by 568k (here). Meaning Facebook and Instagram are his most successful outlets.

The negative numbers at the bottom of the image are huge (-4,460,844 overall). I’m used to seeing large losses on X but does this mean Instagram are purging too or is something else going on?