The Essentials
CONTACT:
E-mail:
theschaefershakedown@gmail.com
Management:
Kara Welker
GRLBND Media
kara@grlbndmedia.com
Agents:
Tyler Amato
Creative Artists Agency
424.288.2000 / tyler.amato@caa.com
Audrey Rowe
Creative Artists Agency
424.288.2000 / audrey.rowe@caa.com
MORE ABOUT ME:
Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand up comedian, writer, and artist. Her Comedy Central Stand Up Presents half hour special debuted in November 2019 and she was the co-host of MTV’s late night show Nikki & Sara Live. Sara published her first book, Grand, in 2020 with Simon & Schuster. She has written for numerous television programs including Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Would I Lie To You, and The History of Swear Words. She won two Emmy awards for her work at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In recent years, Sara’s satirical sketches have been viral hits, including Comedy Ad, Quarantine Barbie, How To Sell a TV Show in 3 Easy Steps, and MeResearch. The New York Times called her new solo show Going Up “ambitious and nimble” and “a feat of comedy.” She will be touring the show in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. in 2023.
PRESS ABOUT SARA’S NEW SOLO SHOW “GOING UP”:
“Spoofing the cult of comedy in the language of Scientology, the wry, incisive stand-up Sara Schaefer adopts the pose, jargon and microphone of a guru in her new solo show about how to make it in the stand-up business. ‘Going Up’ (a riff on the Scientology term ‘Going Clear’), which has been performed a few times but will get a wider hearing in 2023, is ambitious and nimble, sneakily personal with enough inside-baseball jokes to make it a must-see for comedy nerds. The most impressive example of this, and the bit I am most looking forward to revisiting, is when Schaefer illustrates every kind of modern stand-up by doing the same genre of joke, over and over again, in a multitude of styles. It’s a feat of comedy as well as criticism that captures an entire scene in just a few minutes.” – The New York Times
“Having entered comedy over two decades ago, Schaefer’s cynicism, disdain and grievances with the industry are laid bare – be it the rampant misogyny, how the richest comedians are usually the least funny, and the unspoken rules you need to follow to “make it”. It’s a clever, dry and meta work of comedy about comedy.” – The Age
“There is perhaps no comedian alive who is capable of being so effortlessly funny and so fully themselves without being reductive than Sara Schaefer. In her show, Going Up, she manages to dissect stand-up, calling into question its cultishness, exclusivity, lack of creativity, and impact on one’s life and self-worth.” – Eric Farwell, comedy critic “Schaefer herself has done spectacular work in almost every discipline of comedy and almost on every level, and now, with that wealth of experience and acclaim, is doing a perfectly biting satirical solo show on ‘how to become a comedian’.” – The Comedy Bureau
MORE PRESS:
Press
Vulture review of The Schaefer Shakedown
The AV Club coverage of The HaHa Hole
Stand Up Review, Interrobang, 2017
Huffington Post interview, February 2017
Stand Up Review, Exclaim! Magazine, Oct 2016
LA Times review of Day Job, May 2014
NY Times Magazine Profile, March 2012
New York Observer Profile, October 2013
Daily Beast Profile, August 2013
Richmond Magazine Profile, January 2013
Glamour Interview, August 2013
USA Today Interview / Featured as 100 People of the Year in Pop Culture, 2012
Huffington Post’s Favorite Female Comedians, 2011
USA Today names ‘You Had To Be There’ one of their top ten comedy podcasts.