Kathleen Madigan

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Kathleen Madigan is an American stand-up comedian and TV personality. In addition to her stand-up comedy performances, she is a regular guest on a variety of U.S. television programs.

Early life and education

Madigan was born in Florissant, Missouri, one of seven children in an Irish Catholic family.[1] Her parents, Jack and Vicki Madigan, are a lawyer and a nurse respectively.[2][3] She grew up mostly in Florissant, a suburb of St. Louis,[4] although the family also lived for periods of time in House Springs, Missouri, and in the Lake of the Ozarks region of central Missouri.[2] Madigan received the first eight years of her education largely in private Catholic schools, although she also attended the public School of the Osage.[2] It was there she excelled as a student athlete, participating in volleyball, track, and basketball.[2] In the latter, she set a record by winning the 1978 Mid-Missouri Hoops Shoot Championship. At the time she was 4' 5" tall and set a record as the shortest person to win the event.[5][6] She shot under-handed, sinking 14 of 15 attempts.

Madigan attended McCluer North High School, graduating in 1983.[7] She admitted in a 2012 interview with St. Louis Magazine, however, that she participated in few activities like float decorating or prom, choosing instead to work at a steakhouse where she could make up to $200 per night.[2] Madigan attended University of Missouri–St. Louis for two years, but, according to Madigan, all she did was accumulate $7,000 in campus parking tickets.[2] At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she earned a B.A. in journalism in 1988.[7] While at SIUE, she was in charge of the student newspaper and also served an internship with the St. Louis Blues professional ice hockey team.[8]

Professional career

Madigan first took a job in print journalism, working for the St. Louis-area Suburban Journals newspapers as well as the publications department of the Missouri Athletic Club. At the same time, she performed stand-up during "open mic" nights at St. Louis area comedy clubs. She credits her father, Jack, with encouraging her to try a comedy career.[9] Her growing popularity at these soon led to the offer of a paying job in stand-up from The Funny Bone, a nationwide chain of comedy clubs.[2] With a thirty-week booking of guaranteed dates, Madigan gave up her jobs in Missouri. She cites Ron White, Richard Jeni and Lewis Black among her influences in her early comedy club days.[2]

Among the TV shows and specials Madigan has appeared on are Last Comic Standing, I Love the 90s: Part Deux, I Love the '80s 3-D, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. She also starred in her own HBO Half-Hour Comedy Special and a Comedy Central Presents special. She is a veteran of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Bob and Tom Show.[10] She also hosts a radio program, Blue Collar Comedy, on Sirius XM Radio. Madigan has twice participated in USO shows in support of American troops, touring both Iraq and Afghanistan along with fellow comedians.[11] She sometimes writes material for other comedians, as was the case in 2004 and 2005 when she was a writer for Garry Shandling when he hosted the Emmy Awards telecast.[11] In 2016, she made an appearance on Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.[12]

In the wake of her touring stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic Madigan launched her own comedy podcast in August 2020, Madigan's Pubcast.[13] On Saturday, December 19, 2020, she appeared on Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed episode of "Girls Gone Wild" on CBS.

Honors

In 1996, Madigan won "Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic" at the American Comedy Awards.[14]

Personal life

Madigan is single and lives in the Ozarks. She also owns a farm in the Midwest and spends "inordinate amounts of time" with her family there.[10] She has four brothers and two sisters.[9] She has often cited her father as a source of her comic material as well as an example of a positive work ethic.[8]

Media

CDs

  • Kathleen Madigan (1998), later reissued as Live (2000)
  • Shallow Happy Thoughts for the Soul (2002)
  • In Other Words (2006)
  • Gone Madigan (2011)
  • Madigan Again (2013)
  • Bothering Jesus (2016)

DVDs

  • In Other Words (2005)
  • Gone Madigan (2011)
  • Madigan Again (2013)
  • Bothering Jesus (2016)

Television appearances

References

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External links

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