Jessi Klein

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Jessi Klein
American politics, pop culture
Spouse
Michael Engleman
(m. 2014)
Children1

Jessi Ruth Klein

television specials for My Coolest Years: Geeks on VH1 and Rise of the Geeks on E!. Klein also provided the voice of Lucy in the animated pilot for Adult Swim's Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
.

Klein previously worked as a director of development for

Stella. She was the head writer and executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer
.

Career

In 2004, Klein appears twice in the Season 2 "Wayne Brady Show" episode of

gassed by Chappelle "in the wings" just before Chappelle confronts Wayne Brady
to take his show back.

In 2009, she wrote and co-starred in

2009-2010 season
.

Klein's Comedy Central Presents special aired on March 4, 2011.

Klein made her first-time appearance as a panelist on NPR's comedy-news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on June 25, 2011.[3] She was the first female guest host of the program on March 11, 2017.[4]

She was an executive producer and writer for Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central since its debut, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015 for her work on the show.[5] She was not a writer on its fifth season. She was also a consulting producer on the series "Transparent" in 2016.

Klein released her debut book in July 2016, You'll Grow Out of It,[6][7][8][9] which became a New York Times best seller. Klein's second book, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood, was released in April 2022.

Klein has served as a consulting producer for the Netflix series animated sitcom Big Mouth since 2017, and provides the voice for one of the series' main characters, Jessi Glaser.[10]

Selected works

Books

  • Klein, Jessi (2016). You'll Grow Out of It. Grand Central Publishing.
  • Klein, Jessi (2022). I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood. Harper.

Essays and reporting

  • Klein, Jessi (May 23, 2016). "The bath : a polemic". Personal History. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 15. pp. 36–37.

References

  1. ^ "How Was Your Week with Julie Klausner: Tavi Gevinson, Jessi Klein "Crazy Person F.I.T." Episode 68". howwasyourweek.libsyn.com. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  2. ^ Plante, Stephie Grob. "How a nice Jewish girl became comedy's 'dirty nerdy'". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Bill Clinton Plays Not My Job". NPR.org. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  4. ^ "'Wait Wait' For March 11, 2017: With Not My Job Guest Neal Brennan". NPR.org. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Jessi Klein".
  6. ^ Silman, Anna (July 13, 2016). "This Book by Amy Schumer's Head Writer Is Better Than Therapy". The Cut. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  7. ^ Lies, Erica (August 10, 2016). "5 Reasons to Read Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It". Paste. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  8. ^ Felsenthal, Julia (July 12, 2016). "Jessi Klein Didn't Mean to Write a Book". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  9. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  10. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2016-06-13). "Netflix Orders 'Big Mouth' Animated Series From Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg". Deadline. Retrieved 2016-08-31.

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