Sara Benincasa is a comedian, writer and radio talk show host. She
was a citizen journalist for the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose Street Team,
part of MTV’s 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign.During the last Presidential campaign, she created original
web video content for the Huffington Post's humor site, 23/6, a series for which she won an ECNY Award and was nominated for a Webby for best performance, alongside Isabella Rosellini.

Sara’s cheerfully quirky, politically outspoken, sexually charged comedy has won praise from the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the New York Times, ABCNews.com, Wired.com ("an up-and-coming comedian"), Time.com ("killer … improv-comedy charm"), Newsweek.com ("freaking hilarious"), Politico, The Guardian, The Independent, Agence France-Presse, Le Post, Le Figaro, The Huffington Post ("celebrated"), Time Out New York, ComedyCentral’s Indecision 2008 ("hilarious"), Wonkette,
New York, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paper, Fishbowl LA, Fishbowl DC,
Buzzfeed, Celebrity Crunch, Trendhunter, Mahalo, and Big Head DC. New
York Times blogger Judith Warner deemed Sara "utterly hilarious." Sara
has discussed the youth vote and citizen journalism on MTV’s "Total
Request Live," MTV News, and CUNY-TV’s "Brian Lehrer Live."

Sara hosted Nerve.com’s hit "Tub Talk with Sara B.,"
a notorious web talk show in which she interviewed comedians and humor
writers in her bathtub. Guests included humorist Andy Borowitz
(BorowitzReport.com), current SNL writer John Mulaney, 2007 Andy
Kauffman Award winning comedian Reggie Watts, author Jonathan Ames, and
a variety of other funny/smart/weird people. She has since revamped the
show into the web series "Gettin' Wet with Sara Benincasa", and has interviewed guests such as Margaret Cho, Donald Glover, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman. She is also the host of "Democracy WOW!" She hosts and produces a nightly show about sex for Sirius XM.

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