Emily Winter

I'M A WRITER AND COMEDIAN. THIS IS MY WEBSITE. I'M FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE FONTS.

BIO

Emily Winter is a former journalist turned comedian, TV writer, live show producer, and author. Before pursuing comedy writing, she covered a London train bombing terrorist attack for the Associated Press, wrote for a local newspaper in Wisconsin, and was the editorial director of SparkNotes.

In the comedy world, her professional credits include the NPR game show “Ask Me Another,” the E! game show “Cash at Your Door,” the Nickelodeon kids’ comedy “That Girl Lay Lay,” Fusion TV’s news/comedy show “Come Here And Say That,” TV Land, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, and The Barnes & Noble Review. Her unprofessional credits include: She once ate a beetle out of the carpet because she thought it was a Raisinet.

Winter’s standup comedy can be heard on SiriusXM. She has performed at SF SketchFest, HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, The Limestone Comedy Festival, and many others. She hosts and co-conceived of a New York Times and Time Out recommended 64-comedian joke contest called ONE LINER MADNESS, which travels the country to find the best joke writer in every city with a thriving comedy community.

Winter’s work has been profiled on/in The TODAY Show, The New York Times, NPR, The AV Club, the TED WorkLife with Adam Grant podcast, Buzzfeed, Lifehacker, The Miami New Times, The Brooklyn Paper, Bustle, someecards, The Boston Globe and others.

MERIT BADGES

NOTEWORTHY JOBS, PROJECTS, PRESS AND AWARDS

-Author of ONE DAY SMARTER, a funny, uplifting trivia book

-Writer for the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon show That Girl Lay Lay

-Joke writer for the NPR comedy/trivia game show Ask Me Another, hosted by Ophira Eisenberg

-Joke writer for the E! game show Cash at Your Door, hosted by Jason Biggs

-Staff writer for the Fusion comedy show Come Here And Say That, hosted by Alicia Menendez

-Staff writer at TV Land, where I worked on various projects

-Two-time guest on The TODAY Show

-Featured in a segment on TED’s Work Life with Adam Grant podcast

-Finalist for ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. The script, HARD DEAD NAZI DICK, was in the top 1% of 2,100 entrants

-Co-founded and produced an international comedy festival, WHAT A JOKE, which raised more than $50K for The ACLU over Trump's inauguration weekend in 2017. The fest happened in 32 cities and was written about in The AV Club, The Village Voice, Time Out, Splitsider, and many others

-Standup has been profiled in The Miami New Times ("Winter is the ambitious, well-connected, and hilarious outsider who's come in to shake up the scene."), The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, and the website TrunkSpace. ("Smooth and polished like a precious stone, Winter delivers comedy gems for any season.")

-Performed standup in SF SketchFest, Laughing Skull Festival, The Limestone Comedy Festival, The Cape Fear Comedy Fest, Out of Bounds, Brooklyn Comedy Fest, Florida Super Con, Women in Comedy Fest, Madison Comedy Week, Orlando Indie Comedy Fest, Bird City, Rogue Island, The Brickell Comedy Fest, The She Devil Comedy Fest, WHAT A JOKE Fest, The Cinder Block Comedy Fest and The Cream City Comedy Fest

-Limited series podcast HOW TO PRODUCE LIVE COMEDY was ranked #1 in Podomatic Training Podcasts and written up on Lifehacker

-Editorial director of SparkNotes.com and its teen blog, SparkLife

-Parody Twitter accounts @TrumpFeminist and @Feminist_Bro have been written about on Bustle, Someecards, Hello Giggles and The Frisky

-Participated in NBC's first annual Late Night Writers Workshop in 2013. Ten writers were selected from 1,000 applicants for the program

-Television pilot Wrongside of 25 took 2nd place in the Fresh Voices Script Contest

-Live 64-comedian joke contest ONE LINER MADNESS has been written about in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Time Out. It has traveled the country, and raised more than $10K for charity. One Liner Madness has also been an official selection at The Cape Fear Comedy Fest, Bird City Comedy Fest, and The Cinder Block Comedy Fest

-Here’s a lucky one: Recently won the showcase showdown on The Price Is Right. Anyone wanna buy a boat?

ONE LINER MADNESS

64 COMEDIANS FACE OFF IN THIS TIME OUT RECOMMENDED TRAVELING COMEDY SHOW THAT I CO-CREATED, PRODUCE, PROMOTE AND HOST. IT’S BASICALLY LIKE MARCH MADNESS, BUT WITH ONE LINER JOKES INSTEAD OF BASKETBALL GAMES. WINNERS GET A TROPHY AND CASH PRIZE.