Not Woke Shows

Andrew Doyle

Stand-up · Not woke

Andrew Doyle’s stand-up is dry, literate satire that punctures progressive pieties, cancel-culture rituals, and identity dogma with mockery rather than sermons. Rooms come for pointed free-speech comedy and character-driven takedowns of orthodoxy. Andrew Doyle works as a cool-headed satirist whose stage persona is the unflappable observer who refuses to genuflect. Sets typically move through monologue and occasional character turns, using precise language and deadpan timing instead of prop gags or crowd-work chaos. He returns again and again to free speech, the absurdities of institutional wokeness, and the gap between stated compassion and actual coercion. Jokes land through inversion and exaggeration of sacred progressive phrases rather than punch-up or punch-down formulas. The pacing is conversational yet tightly argued, closer to a sharp column read aloud than a rapid-fire club set.