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Contributors

Meet our amazing contributors, without whom we’re nothing – nothing!

  • Khaleel Rahman

    Khaleel also contributes to The Onion, Reductress, and Flexx Magazine. He hosts a podcast called Tight Five where he interviews comedy writers about their careers (anchor.fm/khaleel-rahman3).

  • Julia Zhen

    Julia Zhen is a writer and improviser in the Washington, D.C. area. She is the Founder and EIC of the satire and humor site for all Asian Americans, The Lunar Times (@the_lunar_times). You can find her in The Hard Times and Flexx Mag.

  • Maddy Schmidt

    Maddy Schmidt is a college student/lowly intern with a passion for satire and buying groceries for the office. Her proudest achievement is that she has been blocked by Drake Bell on Twitter (@piece_ofschmidt).

  • Ginny Hogan

    Ginny Hogan is an LA-based satire writer and comedian. She’s the author of “Toxic Femininity in the Workplace.”

  • Ian Ager

    Ian Ager is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. He spends most of his time procrastinating and pondering which sauce would be best to eat the rich with.

  • Xu Mason

    Xu (pronounced like “shoe”) is a writer/comedian/actress who studied improv in Chicago, and grew up in Minnesota. She has a lot of opinions on apples, anime, and soup dumplings.

  • Richard Spitaletta

    Richard is a writer/comedian based out of New York City. His comedy short “What You Do Best” was recently a finalist at the Austin Short Film Comedy Festival. He has studied sketch and improv at UCB, and was also applauded for taking emotional risks while rolling around on the floor in his college production of “Spring Awakening.” Follow him on twitter @imsotiredrnlol

  • Amar Singh

    Amar Singh is a great comedian to check out if you like your comedians energetic and world weary! You can find out his whole deal on his twitter @mywiferight

  • Katrina Santos

    Katrina Santos is a Santa Cruz–based writer and proud mother of an elderly, 10-pound rabbit. She co-founded The Periphery, a Detroit-based magazine. Follow her on Twitter @KatrinaNSantos.

  • Harmony Cox

    Harmony Cox is a queer Midwestern essayist and humorist. Her words have appeared in McSweeneys, Catapult, Electric Literature, and many other places. Find more of her work at harmonycox.com, or follow her on Twitter @harmonopoly.

  • Rima Parikh

    Rima Parikh is a comedian and writer.

  • Marito Lopez

    Marito Lopez is a professional stand up comedian who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is of Latinx descent and was born in El Salvador. He has appeared on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and MTV Canada, and much more. He is also an actor who has appeared on countless TV shows and Film.

  • Shayna Goodman

    Shayna Goodman’s essays have appeared in The Cut, Salon, Lilith Magazine, Jewish Currents, and Grub Street Literary Magazine, among other places. Her work is nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hunter College.

  • Jon Plester

    Jon Plester is a video maker, comedy writer, and all-around bad boy who currently resides in Chicago. Currently he’s a headline contributor for ClickHole, but in the past his work has been featured on Vulture, Paste Magazine, Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Above Average, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

  • Carly Bivona

    Carly Bivona is a writer and comedian based in New York. Her writing has been featured in Reductress and her PERSONAL journal, Carol! In her spare time you can find her googling answers to the crossword.

  • Julie Hoang

    Julie is an LA-based writer, having written sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She’s originally from Seattle aka Diet San Francisco.

  • Melody McCune

    I am an old soul in a young meat suit who loves to write, eat copious amounts of cheese, binge-watch too much TV, and use humor as a defense mechanism. I prefer dogs over people. You can find my ramblings on Geek Girl Authority, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium.

  • Erika Holter

    Erika Holter is a freelance writer and content creator, joining us from her Canadian winter wonderland. When she’s not writing she can be found snowshoeing (winter), camping in the Rocky Mountains (summer), eating poutine, apologizing needlessly, or watching Schitt’s Creek and Anne of Green Gables (okay, we get it, you’re Canadian).

  • Seth Rubin

    Seth is a comedian and writer who has been published in Reductress, McSweeney’s, and more. They like to play chess and eat everything bagels, but never at the same time.

  • Mike Atcherson

    Mike Atcherson was born in the very sunny, but very problematic state of Florida and is now based in Chicago. He’s a stand up comic and an improviser. He’s a contributor to Flexx Magazine.

  • Tom Smyth

    Tom Smyth is a humor and culture writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Reductress, Vulture, Teen Vogue, Bustle, and fan letters to Ina Garten.

  • Meredith Hackman

    Meredith Hackman is a comedian and writer, known for George Washington: DTF (Comedy Central) and Commuters (Channel 101). She has written and produced numerous plays and performed stand up, improv, and sketch comedy across New York, Los Angeles, and London. She believes she brings a unique perspective to her comedy as a sib in the disabled community.

  • Taylor Gonzalez

    Taylor is a comedy and horror writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. He’s the editor-in-chief of Flexx Magazine, creator of deadass, co-creator of horror zine youarenotalone, and co-founder of the Diverse As Fuck Comedy Festival in New York City. He’s also known to eat a sandwich.

  • Lindsay Hameroff

    Lindsay Hameroff lives in Harrisburg, PA with her husband and two kids. Her writing has been published in McSweeneys, Weekly Humorist, Daily Drunk Mag, Little Old Lady, and other outlets. In her spare time, she can be found reading, cooking, or fantasizing about making brisket for Harry Styles.

  • Tiara Starks

    Tiara is a writer and aspiring troublemaker from Connecticut. She primarily writes about culture, politics, and TV while trying to make someone chuckle. Why? ‘Cause hey, life’s kinda funny sometimes.

  • Nathan Kamal

    Nathan Kamal is a writer and comic performer based in Chicago, IL. For more information, find him @nathankamal or look to the stars in wonder.

  • Vic Pinto

    Vic Pinto is a humor writer and grad student in Miami, FL. He’s studied writing at Second City and doesn’t own a TV. Is he a broke college student or Hipster? That’s for you to decide.

  • Elise Seyfried

    Elise is the author of four book of humorous essays, and has written for many publications including The Belladonna Comedy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Purple Clover, The Independent, HuffPost, Grok Nation and Chicken Soup for the Soul. Elise is the mother of five children, and spends a lot of time working in a church. This is probably not a coincidence.

  • Hoodo Hersi

    Hoodo Hersi is a Toronto-based comedian recently selected as a New Face: Canada at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, where her performance aired on the Comedy Network. She has performed in clubs and festivals all over Canada and the United States and performed with Hasan Minhaj, Lil Rel Howery, Chris Redd, Gina Yashere, Moshe Kasher, and Maria Bamford among others. Follow her on Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok/any other distracting social media site @hoodocomedy

  • David Bradley Isenberg

    David Bradley Isenberg is a writer living in New York City.

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