Author: Seriously Funny

Admired and best-selling authors offer advice and discuss their latest books. 

Enjoy a panel of comedy writers with Jenny Hagel, Advice No One Asked For: Essays, and Maeve Dunigan, Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings. Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.

Maeve Dunigan is a writer originally from Baltimore, MD, now based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Reductress, Mountain Gazette, Mic, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts podcast. She’s also, quite proudly, an “Abolish Everything” world champion. Maeve co-hosts Some Fun Lines, a monthly open mic and quarterly show dedicated to prose humor.  She’s half of the musical sketch duo Pigeon, of Pigeon Presents, a comedy variety show that’s been featured in Time Out New York. Maeve would love to be a beekeeper one day, but she doesn’t have the space for it right now.

Jenny Hagel is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedy performer in New York City. She is a writer/performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she created the recurring segment "Jokes Seth Can't Tell." She was also head writer and executive producer of The Amber Ruffin Show. Other writing credits include The Golden Globe Awards, Impractical Jokers, and The Big Gay Sketch Show. Jenny has an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University, and has been nominated for two GLAAD Awards for work addressing LGBTQ+ issues on TV. 

Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster on Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.