I got about 2 minutes into that Paul Smith video and couldn't go on. Yikes.
Favourite off the top of my head:
Stewart Lee
James Acaster
Hannibal Buress
Nate Bargatze
Bill Burr (earlier specials are better, he's leaning into the cancel culture thing quite heavily lately)
Sebastian Maniscalco (his latest was a bit weak, but big fan of the others)
John Mulaney
I've only seen 1 of his specials but really liked Judah Friedlander's one on netflix
Colin Quinn is great too, though his specials may be closer to one man shows than stand up, as he's often just telling one single story.
Todd Barry has the best crowd work special I've seen. But his regular specials are great too.
John Mulaney (Kid Gorgeous and The Comeback Kid are probably the most hilarious classic standup specials I’ve seen, though I was underwhelmed by his recent post-sobriety show Baby J)
Agreed, though I liked Baby J, it wasn't particularly funny until towards the end. Though given the subject of it, its perhaps hard to make it funny. Still a bit underwhelming compared to his earlier stuff. It also made me like him a little bit less as he comes across as a bit of a dickhead throughout. The earlier work redeems him though. His bit about telling computers that you're not a robot is probably one of my favourite bits of standup of all time.