Kira Soltanovich
Stand-up comedian

Kira Soltanovich

Who Kira Soltanovich is

Comedian, writer and actress born in Lviv and raised in San Francisco, best known as the 'Phony Photo Booth' correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for almost nine years and as a series regular on Oxygen's hidden-camera show Girls Behaving Badly. Her specials are the Showtime half-hour Here Comes Trouble and the hour You Did This to Me, and she hosts The Kira Soltanovich Show podcast about comedians who are parents.

At a glance

Came up through
Last Comic Standing
Stand-up specials
Hot Tamales Live, Here Comes Trouble and You Did This to Me
Podcasts
The Kira Soltanovich Show
On screen
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Girls Behaving Badly, You Bet Your Life and 4 more
Next on stage
10 October 2026 — San Jose Improv, San Jose, CA
Official site
kiracomedy.com ↗

On stage

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Specials, shows and podcasts

Stand-up specials

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 Kira Soltanovich

Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.

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Career timeline

  1. 2010Hot Tamales Live (2010, Showtime; appearance) Special
  2. 2010Here Comes Trouble (2010, Showtime) Special
  3. 2016You Did This to Me (2016, Amazon) Special
  4. 2016Winsanity (announcer, 2016) On screen

Questions about Kira Soltanovich

Where is Kira Soltanovich performing next?

Saturday 10 October 2026, 7:00 PM at San Jose Improv, San Jose, CA, then 1 more date on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar. Each show's own listing has the last word.

What stand-up specials have they released?

Hot Tamales Live, Here Comes Trouble and You Did This to Me.

What podcast do they host?

The Kira Soltanovich Show.

What TV shows and films are they in?

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Girls Behaving Badly, You Bet Your Life, Winsanity, How to Be a Grownup and Last Comic Standing, among 7 credits.

Where did they get their start?

Last Comic Standing (on the show).

Who are some comedians like them?

Jay Leno (also in You Bet Your Life), Brendon Walsh (also in Jimmy Kimmel Live!), Corey Holcomb (also in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), John Heffron (also in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) and Kathleen Madigan (also in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno).

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