Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand up comedian, writer, and producer currently based in Los Angeles. She was the co-host of MTV’s late night show Nikki & Sara Live. Her Comedy Central Stand Up Presents half hour special debuted in November 2019. She won two Emmy awards for her work at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and won a WGA Award for her work on Ed Helms’ Comedy Central special The Fake News with Ted Nelms. She has also written for numerous programs including The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Netflix’s The History of Swear Words, Well Done with Sebastian Maniscalco, Comedy Central’s Problematic with Moshe Kasher and Not Safe with Nikki Glaser. Her digital series Woman Online debuted on Seriously.TV in February 2017, and her stand up show Little White Box debuted to a sold-out run at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sara’s scripted web series Day Job was named one of 100 Best Web Series by TimeOut New York. Sara published her first book, Grand, in 2020 with Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books. She hosts a podcast called The Schaefer Shakedown.
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.
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