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Emily Winter

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

BIO

Emily Winter is a comedian, WGA television writer, and author of the trivia book ONE DAY SMARTER.

Her professional writing credits include:The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR's “Ask Me Another,” E!’s “Cash at Your Door,'“ Nickelodeon’s “That Girl Lay Lay,” TV Land, Fusion TV, Glamour, and The Barnes & Noble Review. Her unprofessional credits include: She once at 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 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. And like every insufferable comedian, Emily hosts podcasts. Specifically HAUNTED AS HELL and the short series HOW TO PRODUCE LIVE COMEDY.

Emily’s work has been profiled on/in The TODAY Show, 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.

VIDEOS

THE BACKFATLORETTE IS AN ANNUAL DATING SHOW I CONCEIVED OF AND HOST.

A MUSIC VIDEO I CONCEIVED OF AND SANG IN

A VIDEO I APPEARED IN FOR STASH INVEST

A GLAMOUR MAGAZINE VIDEO I APPEARED IN

ONE LINER MADNESS, A 64-COMEDIAN JOKE CONTEST I CO-CREATED AND HOST AROUND THE COUNTRY.

STANDUP AT THE GUTTER IN BROOKLYN NY

A STORY I ACTED IN AND HELPED EDIT FOR MY VARIETY SHOW, BACKFAT.

I CONCEIVED OF, CO-WROTE AND EDITED THIS VIDEO ABOUT A NEW CONTESTANT ON THE BACHELORETTE

A SKETCH I CONCEIVED OF, CO-WROTE, AND EDITED

See a Show

I perform standup all over, but these shows are my babies: the ones I produce and host. Grab a ticket!

ONE LINER MADNESS PHILADELPHIA - SUNDAY MARCH 10, 2024 - JOHNNY BRENDA’S - GET TICKETS

ONE LINER MADNESS NYC - WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2024 - THE BELL HOUSE, BROOKLYN - PROCEEDS GO TO SHELTER CHIC ANIMAL RESCUE - GET TICKETS

ONE LINER MADNESS TWIN CITIES - TUESDAY APRIL 23, 2024 - TURF CLUB - GET TICKETS

ONE LINER MADNESS PITTSBURGH - SATURDAY JULY 13, 2024 - SPIRIT, LAWRENCEVILLE - GET TICKETS

ONE LINER MADNESS LOS ANGELES - COMING SOON

ONE LINER MADNESS CHICAGO - COMING SOON

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 NPR's Ask Me Another

-Joke writer for the E! show Cash at Your Door

-Two-time guest on The TODAY Show

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

-Former staff writer at TV Land

-Former staff writer for the Fusion comedy show Come Here And Say That

-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 over $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

-Podcast HOW TO PRODUCE LIVE COMEDY has been ranked #1 in Podomatic Training Podcasts and written up on Lifehacker

-Former 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, traveled the country, and raised over $8K for charity. It has also been an official selection at The Cape Fear Comedy Fest, Bird City Comedy Fest, and The Cinder Block Comedy Fest

-Music video "Dudes on OKCupid" was featured on Buzzfeed, Death and Taxes, ComeDiva and many other sites.

PODCASTS

I’VE HOSTED TWO PODCASTS: HAUNTED AS HELL (2019-PRESENT), AND HOW TO PRODUCE LIVE COMEDY (2018), WHICH WAS RANKED #1 IN PODOMATIC TRAINING PODCASTS, AND WAS WRITTEN UP ON LIFEHACKER. LISTEN BELOW!

HAUNTED AS HELL

HOW TO PRODUCE LIVE COMEDY