Laurie Kilmartin is an Emmy nominated writer for CONAN, a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime standup comic. Laurie went viral in 2020 for live-tweeting jokes about losing her mother to COVID, and again in 2022, after Sean Hannity targeted her on Fox News for making an abortion joke. Laurie loves finding the silly side of serious topics, and her new special, Cis Woke Grief Slut, is proof that not every Gen X standup has morphed into an alt-right grump.
Laurie Kilmartin was a staff writer for all 11 years of CONAN on TBS and has performed standup on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and Comedy Central. She was a Top 10 finalist on season 9 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and has been a guest on Marc Maron’s WTF 3 times. Her first book, Shitty Mom, was a NY Times bestseller. Her special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad was named one of Vulture’s Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. She appeared on Episode 1 of Hillary Clinton’s 2022 Apple TV series Gutsy. Her 3rd album Corset was released in October of 2021.
