Kathleen Madigan
Stand-up comedian · Nashville, TN

Kathleen Madigan

Who Kathleen Madigan is

American stand-up comedian from the St. Louis area who started at open mics while working in journalism and has built her career mainly on touring and specials. She won the 1996 American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Stand-Up, has made more than 40 late-night and daytime talk-show appearances and toured for the USO in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her specials include Bothering Jesus (Netflix, 2016), Hunting Bigfoot (2023) and The Family Thread (2025) on Prime Video. Since 2020 she has hosted Madigan's Pubcast.

At a glance

Born
1965
Based in
Nashville, TN
Came up through
Last Comic Standing
Stand-up specials
In Other Words, Gone Madigan, Madigan Again and 3 more
Albums
Kathleen Madigan, Shallow Happy Thoughts for the Soul, In Other Words and 3 more
Podcasts
Madigan's Pubcast
On screen
Last Comic Standing, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and 3 more
Official site
kathleenmadigan.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: kathleenmadigan.com ↗.

Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →

Specials, shows and podcasts

Stand-up specials

Albums

On screen

Podcasts

Where they got their start

Came up the same way

Other comedians in SUCDb who came through Last Comic Standing:

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Comedians like Kathleen Madigan

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Career timeline

  1. 1965Born
  2. 1998Kathleen Madigan (1998) Album
  3. 2002Shallow Happy Thoughts for the Soul (2002) Album
  4. 2005In Other Words (2005, DVD) Special
  5. 2006In Other Words (2006) Album
  6. 2011Gone Madigan (2011) Special
  7. 2013Madigan Again (2013) Special
  8. 2016Bothering Jesus (2016, Netflix) Special
  9. 2016Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2016) On screen
  10. 2016Bothering Jesus (2016) Album
  11. 2020Comics Unleashed (CBS, 2020) On screen
  12. 2020Madigan's Pubcast (host, 2020–) Podcast or book
  13. 2023Hunting Bigfoot (2023, Prime Video) Special
  14. 2025The Family Thread (2025, Prime Video) Special

Questions about Kathleen Madigan

Where is Kathleen Madigan performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: kathleenmadigan.com ↗.

What stand-up specials have they released?

In Other Words, Gone Madigan, Madigan Again, Bothering Jesus, Hunting Bigfoot and The Family Thread.

What podcast do they host?

Madigan's Pubcast.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Last Comic Standing, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and Comics Unleashed.

Where did they get their start?

Last Comic Standing (on the show).

Where are they based?

Nashville, TN, as their record gives it.

When were they born?

In 1965.

Who are some comedians like them?

Michael Palascak (also in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), Keith Alberstadt (also in The Late Show with David Letterman), Adrienne Iapalucci (also in The Late Show with David Letterman), Amy Miller (also in Comics Unleashed) and Carmen Lynch (also in The Late Show with David Letterman).

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 5 October 2026 · the record checked 27 September 2026