Kathleen Madigan: The Potluck Party

Comedian Kathleen Madigan’s 34-year comedy career is showing no signs of slowing down.  Madigan has been touring 250 nights a year
on the road and has risen from performing in comedy clubs to performing in marquee theaters
with sold-out shows.
Madigan has squeezed in over 40 appearances on late night talk shows and multiple comedy
specials airing on Amazon, Netflix, Comedy Central and HBO. She has also appeared on Jerry
Seinfeld’s popular Netflix series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and hosts her popular
weekly podcast, Madigan’s Pubcast, which currently has over 5 million downloads on all
streaming outlets.
Her most recent special Hunting Bigfoot, an Amazon Original, is her sixth hour long stand-up
special released on the heels of her critically acclaimed and third Netflix special, Bothering
Jesus. The brand-new special, recorded at The Paramount Theater in Denver, CO explores topics
including Madigan’s aging parents, interactions with millennials and hunting bigfoot.
Kathleen’s album of the Bothering Jesus special, was the highest selling comedy album and most
played comedy album on streaming services since 2014.
Madigan has performed internationally at festivals in theaters in Ireland, England, Hong Kong,
Australia and has filmed seven Montreal Gala Shows at the Just For Laugh’s Comedy Festival
for CBC TV.
Chicago Tribune wrote, “She has all but perfected the art of crafting and delivering a perfect
joke. That singular dedication to the craft shows in both the evolution of her material over the
years and way she can make a complicated joke with a hidden nub of wisdom seem both
effortless and offhand.”
“There’s nobody better than Maddy. She’s smart and just crushes it every time. She’s not just one
of the best ‘female’ comics, she’s one of the best comics, period,” says comedian Ron White
She’s won the American Comedy Award for “Best Female Comedian” and the Phyllis Diller
award for “Best Female Comedian.” She has written and produced for Lewis Black’s Root of All
Evil on Comedy Central and done multiple USO tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Madigan originally hails from St. Louis, Missouri.

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