Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York
City, where he currently lives and recently worked as the head writer and an executive producer
for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Gondelman also contributed to the final season of The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which was a thrill for both him and his parents. Prior to that, he spent
five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, first as a web producer and then as a staff
writer where he earned four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three WGA Awards. His
debut standup special People Pleaser (2022) was produced by Comedy Dynamics and is
available to stream now.
If his face seems familiar, you may recognize it from his appearances on Conan (TBS), Late
Night With Seth Meyers (NBC), and The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS). But you
may also know his voice from his regular appearances on the NPR news quiz show Wait
Wait…Don’t Tell Me. Gondelman is also the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of
Best Intentions and Mixed Results published September 2019 by Harper Perennial. And, if you
remember this far back, he was the co-creator of the popular Modern Seinfeld Twitter account.
Josh’s album Dancing On a Weeknight came out in 2019 on Blonde Medicine Records. (His
prior album Physical Whisper debuted in March of 2016 at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts (as
well as #4 on the Billboard comedy chart) and stayed there for…well…longer than he expected,
honestly.)
Additionally, Gondelman is also the co-author (along with Joe Berkowitz) of the
book You Blew It, published October 2015 by Plume. In the past, Josh has written for Fuse
TV’s Billy On The Street. His writing has also appeared in prestigious publications such as
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker. For a while he
had his own game show podcast called Make My Day that was a lot of fun. You can still listen to
it if you’d like. Why wouldn’t you? It’s new to you.
That’s probably more information than you need, but hey…he did these things and he’s proud of
himself, okay?