Kathleen Madigan

For 28 years, comedian Kathleen Madigan has been touring 250 nights on the road and squeezing in hour-long filmed specials and performances on ever late night show ever made. From 25 appearances on the Tonight Show and multiple appearances on Letterman and Conan to recently riding around with Jerry Seinfeld in his internet series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”, Madigan is still having a blast and selling out theater across the country. Her most recent special “Bothering Jesus” is her fifth hour long standup special and will be her third special to be available on Netflix. “I lob working with them. They’re the young people. Network TV will need to adapt quickly to even have a chance to stay in the game. Netflix gets it makes it so easy for us. Instead of it being a battle of content and rules, it’s just fun. What it’s supposed to be,” she says. So how is it, the Detroit Free Press asks, “that Madigan has yet to be cast as the wise cracking a)best friend b) office worker or c)martini-swilling mother-in-law in any of the countless sitcoms? We’re thinking it’s because she’s so irreplaceable on the stage. She’s described as the funniest woman doing stand-up right now, but no gender qualifier is necessary. Along with Lewis Black, Brian Regan, Jim Gaffigan, she’s one of the funniest stand-up comedians of her generation.” “I just want to tell jokes. I didn’t start doing open mic to become an actor on a sitcom of in a TV commercial. Those things never crossed my mind,” Madigan says. “For a few of us working, telling jokes was our main goal. I don’t have any more goals. Can’t you ever have a goal, reach it and enjoy it? Our society is being driven by type-A lunatics who says you have to set goals. Well maybe they do but we all don’t. Have a seat grab a drink and enjoy the fact you made it to the goal. Maybe that’s the Irish in me talking though.” Madigan has performed internationally at festivals in theaters in Ireland, England, Hong Kong, Australia and has filmed six Montreal Gala Shows at the Montreal Comedy Festival for CBS TV. “I never realized how middle America I am until performing overseas. It all works but needs some tweaking when the crowd isn’t all Americans. It’s a good challenge and made me a better comedian.” 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 has done multiple USO tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The USO shows are the best. Trust me, no crowd is as appreciative and fried up to see any entertainer. I’m glad I have the chance because God knows I don’t wanna have to their job!” Madigan is an advocate and fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis and Autism.