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Note that, at some point, this post will become outdated and the most recent stats reports are always linked on the Stats page – here.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

Social Accounts – Cumulative Figures

First up, for anyone that has paid attention to earlier posts (ones before today)…I had said that Jimmy had surpassed 21m followers (here), which is a slightly higher number than what I’m about to report below.

That number was (still is) accurate – but it included 542k on Threads. Not enough comics are on Threads so it’s not included in this reporting of “the group”.

Hopefully the image below is not too small.

• Zakir Khan / TikTok – says “removed”. He had an account with 3k subs that seems to have vanished
• Not on YouTube – John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock and Aziz Ansari
• Not on TikTok – John Mulaney, Joe Rogan and Bill Burr
• Everyone has accounts on X, Facebook and Instagram
• I realised about an hour ago that Ricky Gervais has now got a TikTok account (here) but I’d already prepped this lot. He only has 35 followers (and 100 likes) – so he’ll be in next time around.

Catering to an international audience is the way to go for everyone on this list and good to see our American cousins are venturing over to tour Europe (some for the first time).

Mr C, of course, goes anywhere and everywhere (here).

Overall Growth Numbers

When we filter by 2026 growth to date – Mr Amini comes WAY out on top, but with Jimmy a strong 2^nd place. I would imagine he would be thrilled with that (but contemplating what he can do to steal Max’s crown).

The other 6 Brits have added a combined 1,988,534 subs – compared to Jimmy’s solo addition of an impressive 2,996,866

Being a therapist / self-help guru / purveyor of d*ck jokes seems to be paying off!