Ryan Hamilton

Ryan Hamilton is an American stand-up comedian known for clean, observational, sarcastic and self-deprecating humor about his single life, skydiving, hot air balloons and his huge smile. He was born in 1976 in Ashton, Idaho, earned an associate degree at BYU–Idaho and a bachelor’s degree in public relations at Brigham Young University.

He started in Salt Lake City clubs and also worked out of Seattle and Boston. He won Sierra Mist’s “America’s Next Great Comic” search in 2005 and the Great American Comedy Festival in 2011, was a two-time Last Comic Standing semi-finalist, and Rolling Stone named him one of five comics to watch in 2012. He opened for Jerry Seinfeld on his 2019 tour.

His one-hour special Happy Face came to Netflix on August 29, 2017, and This Just Hit Me followed on June 23, 2026. He has done stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Conan.

On Public Figures Ep #39 (Oct 28, 2026), Brian says Ryan was the original headliner of his Paducah show before he dropped out.