News: US Comic Jen Kirkman Returns To UK

Acclaimed American comedian Jen Kirkman is returning to the UK for a one-off show following a successful run at the Soho Theatre. 

Renowned for her “confessional and fearless comedy” (New York Times), Jen’s first Netflix Original Comedy Special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine) was named one of the Top 10 comedy specials of 2015 by Time Out New York, New York Magazine, and The Atlantic, while her most recent Netflix Original Comedy SpecialJust Keep Livin’? (2017) is currently streaming worldwide.

Jen is a two-time New York Times Bestselling author with her two comedic memoirs, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself and I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself; (Dispatches From a Life Under Construction). Also established on the air waves, Jen’s weekly podcast I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman receives 50,000 downloads a month, was included in Cosmopolitan’s ‘Top 10 Podcasts You Should be Listening To’ in 2015, and is regularly in the Top 100 comedy podcasts on iTunes, continuing the rise of her prominent online presence with 258,000 Twitter followers.

On screen, Jen is probably best known as long-time writer and round table guest on Chelsea Lately (E!), while her other TV writing credits include The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video) and regular appearances on Conan (TBS), @Midnight (Comedy Central), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS), The View (ABC), The Wendy Williams Show (Fox), Harry (NBC), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC), The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS), and Jen is five-time narrator of Comedy Central’s Drunk History as well as voicing a multitude of characters on Cartoon Network’s cult-hit Home Movies. Additionally, Jen has created two stand-up albums includingHail to the Freaks, which hit #13 on the Billboard Charts in 2011, and her debut album Self Help in 2006.

Read an interview with Kirkman here.

Read a review of her last show here.

Kirkman will be doing her All New Material Girl show at Leicester Square Theatre on June 22. Buy tickets here.

 

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