Zach Zimmerman

Zach Zimmerman (born )

Early life Zimmerman was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the son of a Southern Baptist preacher and steakhouse manager. He graduated from William Fleming High School in 2006.

The first of his family to go to college, he attended Princeton University, where he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club theater group. He graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion.

Career After graduating, Zimmerman moved to Chicago, where he began performing with The Second City, IO Theater, and Peoples Improv Theater and worked at an LGBTQ community center. In 2017, he mounted a comedic walking tour titled "The Twink on the Fire Escape", visiting sites throughout Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood where he went on a series of ill-fated dates. That year, he performed the show Clean Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, detailing aspects of being raised by religious parents and coming out.

In March 2022, a clip from Zimmerman's crowd work at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan went viral on social media when an audience member came out to the friend with whom she attended the show. That October, Zimmerman performed a set on The Late Late Show with James Corden, his late-night debut.

In 2023, Chronicle Books published Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?, a collection of essays and humor pieces on his upbringing and personal journey.

With Jay Jurden, Zimmerman is the host of the biweekly Brooklyn comedy show Pretty Major, presented by Vulture.

Personal life Zimmerman lives in Brooklyn. He identifies as a "queer, vegetarian, atheist socialist."