Josh Johnson is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and musician. He has been a writer on The Daily Show since 2017, and he previously was a writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He toured with Trevor Noah on his Loud & Clear tour for several years. In 2018, he was named New York's Funniest Stand Up at the New York Comedy Festival. He has released two hour-long comedy specials, # (Hashtag) (2021) and Up Here Killing Myself (2023).
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After Midnight (2024)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
- Episode 1x05: Atsuko Okatsuka, Josh Johnson, Doug Benson (Jan 23, 2024)
The Great American Joke Off (2023)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x08: Captain Kirk, Drunk Driving & Ohio's Not Real (May 19, 2023)
- Episode 1x06: Killer Bees, Jennifer Ani-stan & Casablanc-aargh (May 5, 2023)
Kiff (2023)
Starring as Harry Buns
(8 episodes)
- Episode 1x44: Harry's Maturity Crisis (Oct 21, 2023)
- Episode 1x43: When You Mow, You Mow (Oct 21, 2023)
- Episode 1x31: Maybe-Sitting (Jun 17, 2023)
- Episode 1x30: Fresh Outta Grandmas (Jun 17, 2023)
- Episode 1x06: Career Day (Mar 18, 2023)
- Episode 1x05: Brunch DJ (Mar 18, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: The Fourth Bath (Mar 10, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: Thirst to be the First (Mar 10, 2023)
The Daily Show (2023)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
(46 episodes)
- Episode 3x76: Jeff Hiller (Jun 12, 2025)
- Episode 3x74: Bryan Cranston (Jun 10, 2025)
- Episode 3x64: Jake Auchincloss (May 15, 2025)
- Episode 3x58: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach & Amanda Doyle (May 6, 2025)
- Episode 3x50: Nimesh Patel (Apr 15, 2025)
- Episode 3x42: Gianna Toboni (Apr 1, 2025)
- Episode 3x32: Antoni Porowski (Mar 6, 2025)
- Episode 3x28: Gabrielle Union (Feb 27, 2025)
- Episode 3x24: Brady Corbet (Feb 13, 2025)
- Episode 3x20: Ke Huy Quan (Feb 6, 2025)
- Episode 3x18: Nicole Avant (Feb 4, 2025)
- Episode 3x17: Mo Amer (Feb 3, 2025)
- Episode 3x16: Vince Beiser (Jan 30, 2025)
- Episode 3x10: Stephanie Hsu (Jan 21, 2025)
- Episode 3x09: Brooke Harrington (Jan 20, 2025)
- Episode 3x03: Richard Reeves (Jan 8, 2025)
- Episode 2x138: T.J. English (Dec 11, 2024)
- Episode 2x134: Tom Colicchio (Dec 4, 2024)
- Episode 2x129: Ronan Farrow (Nov 19, 2024)
- Episode 2x122: Tressie McMillan Cottom (Nov 6, 2024)
- Episode 2x121: A Live Election Night Special With Jon Stewart (Nov 5, 2024)
- Episode 2x110: Jason Segel (Oct 16, 2024)
- Episode 2x102: Paola Ramos (Oct 1, 2024)
- Episode 2x98: Aubrey Plaza (Sep 24, 2024)
- Episode 2x95: Daniel Dae Kim (Sep 18, 2024)
- Episode 2x89: The Daily Show Live: DNC (Aug 22, 2024)
- Episode 2x79: Ed Helms (Aug 6, 2024)
- Episode 2x74: Pete Buttigieg (Jul 29, 2024)
- Episode 2x73: Indecision 2024: The Republican National Convention (Jul 18, 2024)
- Episode 2x69: Aasif Mandvi (Jul 9, 2024)
- Episode 2x68: A.J. Jacobs (Jul 8, 2024)
- Episode 2x65: Peter S. Goodman (Jun 25, 2024)
- Episode 2x62: Rosalind Chao (Jun 18, 2024)
- Episode 2x51: JB Smoove (May 22, 2024)
- Episode 2x48: Nick Offerman & Helen Rebanks (May 16, 2024)
- Episode 2x46: Miranda July (May 14, 2024)
- Episode 2x44: John Della Volpe (May 9, 2024)
- Episode 2x41: Jonathan Haidt (May 6, 2024)
- Episode 2x36: Brittney Spencer (Apr 18, 2024)
- Episode 2x35: Orlando Bloom (Apr 17, 2024)
- Episode 2x33: David E. Sanger (Apr 15, 2024)
- Episode 2x30: Alex Garland (Apr 9, 2024)
- Episode 2x26: Colin Allred (Apr 2, 2024)
- Episode 2x22: Jim Sciutto (Mar 26, 2024)
- Episode 2x14: Yuval Noah Harari (Mar 5, 2024)
- Episode 2x06: Danai Gurira (Feb 20, 2024)
The Beat with Ari Melber (2017)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
- Episode 2024-10-22: Episode 193 (Oct 22, 2024)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
(3 episodes)
- Episode 2023-10-10: Pete Davidson, Troye Sivan, Josh Johnson (Oct 10, 2023)
- Episode 2020-11-09: Kaley Cuoco, Megan Rapinoe, Josh Johnson (Nov 9, 2020)
- Episode 2017-02-22: Neil Patrick Harris, Ken Jeong, Josh Johnson (Feb 22, 2017)
Adam DeVine's House Party (2013)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
- Episode 3x05: The Young Man and the Pig (Mar 31, 2016)
@midnight (2013)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
- Episode 2017-02-09: Jay Mandyam, Josh Johnson, Annie Lederman (Feb 9, 2017)
Conan (2010)
Guest starring as Josh Johnson
- Episode 2017-09-19: Frankie Muniz, Josh Johnson (Sep 19, 2017)