I’ll just add to Mears’s superb analysis that in addition to Gary Gulman, Anthony Jeselnik, Daniel Tosh, and Pete Holmes clearly took many cues from Dane Cook’s approach and on stage persona. Through comics like these, we now get terrific contemporary performers like Tom Witcombe ( https://youtu.be/idgQOji3Izk?si=1gGj7XGJQBWoOhQK )and Yang Bo https://m.facebook.com/XiaoguoComedy/videos/chinese-one-liner-comedian-yang-bo-jokes-about-work-life-workplace-and-not-so-in/3143272462589495/