Emily Heller

Personal context

Summary

American comedian, writer, producer, and podcaster from Alameda, California, known for Comedy Central specials including Ice Thickeners and The Half Hour, albums Good for Her and Pasta, and television writing and producing on Barry, plus credits on The Great North, Search Party, Medical Police, Crowded, and Surviving Jack. Her stand-up has long been framed through an explicit feminist lens: she has identified as a feminist onstage, discussed feminism’s public-relations problem in a Feministing interview, and used bits about using feminism to her advantage, workplace sexism, and not caring what men think. Ice Thickeners was timed around International Women’s Day; she joked about wanting an all-female or non-binary audience and opened with material about men in the room. She has also done anti-Trump stand-up and posted partisan support, including backing Karen Bass over an anti-choice Republican. She has publicly said she is not a lesbian and has spoken about dating men and marrying her husband. Her TV writing is mainly conventional comedy rather than a race- or queer-first body of work, and there is no prominent DEI-campaign or activist-organization record. The consistent public pattern is gender-and-feminism-inflected comedy plus ordinary liberal politics, not a dominant activist persona.