Jo Firestone

Jo Firestone is a comedian, actress and writer for television. She was raised in Clayton, a St. Louis suburb in Missouri, and studied theater at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. With Dylan Marron she wrote, directed and performed in Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite, which won a director's award at the Capital Fringe Festival in 2010. In Joe Pera Talks with You she appeared as Sarah Conner, and she voiced Annie Fantasy in Teenage Euthanasia. Her other television credits include Search Party, Broad City, Shrill and The Great North. She wrote for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, was a consulting producer on The Chris Gethard Show, and in 2023 became head writer of After Midnight, also serving as co-executive producer. She hosted the radio program and podcast Dr. Gameshow and started the podcast Everyday Decisions in 2020. In 2023 she self-published the mystery novel Murder on Sex Island.