Kathleen Madigan

Kathleen Madigan (born September 30, 1965) Her parents, Jack and Vicki Madigan, are a lawyer and a nurse respectively. She grew up mostly in Florissant, a suburb of St. Louis, although the family also lived for periods of time in House Springs, Missouri, and in the Lake of the Ozarks region of central Missouri. She shot under-handed, sinking 14 of 15 attempts.

Madigan attended McCluer North High School, graduating in 1983. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

Personal life Madigan is single and lives in Nashville. She also owns a farm in the Midwest and spends "inordinate amounts of time" with her family there. She has four brothers and two sisters.

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 Lewis Black's Root of All Evil - (Performer, Consulting Producer, and Writer) One Night Stand HBO Truly Funny Women, Lifetime Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus, Netflix Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, CBS, December 19, 2020 Kathleen Madigan: Hunting Bigfoot, 2023, Amazon Prime Video Kathleen Madigan: The Family Thread, 2025, Amazon Prime Video