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?

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ACCESSIBILITY

Comedy Bar Danforth is an accessible venue with an elevator to basement level. Accessible washrooms are located on both levels.

The use of smoke machines and strobe, flashing lights or lasers may occur during performances.