I got into comedy to meet a husband. My rationale was this: most comedians are men. I am a woman. Done and done! So I started hanging around filthy, rat-infested stand-up clubs at all hours of the night, writing jokes in a notebook with my right hand and flashing my...

In my first meeting with Dr. Morrison, the family shrink, I described my symptoms as he nodded intently and took careful notes.

"I feel sad all the time," I said, looking at the sky-blue wallpaper and the dark-blue rug. "But more than sad, I feel hopeless. It's kind of...

When I go on the road and perform at colleges, I don't do the kind of material I'd reserve for a regular comedy show in a club full of drunk adults. At colleges, I combine stand-up goofiness with a more serious goal: to talk to students about mental illness, specifically...

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When I was younger, I thought the average memoirist must have it easy. After all, her only duty was to report what had already happened, and how hard could that be? I certainly didn't imagine that writing my own life story would put me...

Just because I've never seen an episode of AMC's monster hit The Walking Dead doesn't mean I'm unqualified to recap it. After all, I've never seen Lost or A Game of Thrones, but that hasn't stopped me from recapping either series in their entirety (incidentally, the...

It's back-to-school week for the majority of America, and as a parent of 28 children, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) knows it's a stressful time for moms, dads, temp kids and perma-kids alike. Bachmann, the future president of the United States, has groundbreaking plans to fix our nation's public schools. Her...

Even a marvelous elocutionist like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) needs a little practice sometimes. As her national profile rises, so too does the pressure for her to perform like a sane, non-delusional adult who doesn't despise all homosexuals or, y'know, believe that a hateful God sends orders...

When I was a freshman in college, a chain-smoking film student I befriended declared that we must attend a midnight showing of filmmaker Kevin Smith's Catholic extravaganza Dogma. I agreed because I thought the kid was dreamy. I hadn't liked or understood Clerks, Mallrats or Chasing Amy, and I certainly...

Hi! I'm a comedian! I'm also a journalistic firestorm of trenchant insight and super-fun hair. OMG! In the first episode of my new web series, "Democracy WOW!", I totally talk to the Yes Men, who are super-cute and totes hip! Squeeeeeeee!