Wolf headlines comedy clubs and colleges all over the country and has performed at a number of festivals including Outside Lands, Moontower, Bonnaroo, Just For Laughs Montreal, JFL 42 and the Dublin Comedy Festival. She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special." The well-reviewed special tackled a wide range of topics from her surprising thoughts on feminism, the environment and why Hilary Clinton could not be a “nice lady,” and more of life’s everyday absurdities. In 2017, Wolf debuted her first hour-long stand-up special, Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady, on HBO.
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She is an avid long-distance runner in her limited free time. One journalist remarked that the spirit of the event had always been jokes that singe but don’t. The WP described her performance as ‘a routine that swerved from raunchy to downright nasty.’. When not crisscrossing the nation on tour, Wolf lives in New York. Michelle Wolf, the comedian, caused sharp intakes of breath with her caustic jokes while hosting last night’s White House correspondents dinner. In 2016 she completed an incredibly successful first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a sold out run of her debut hour-long stand-up show “Michelle Wolf: So Brave.” The critically acclaimed show, which earned her a nomination for the Best Newcomer Prize from the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, garnered numerous four-star reviews from top publications such as the Guardian, Herald and Scotsman. Wolf also wrote on the 88th Academy Awards hosted by Chris Rock. Prior to The Break, Wolf was an on-air contributor and writer for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and a writing supervisor and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she also made her late-night television debut in July 2014.
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Wolf created and served as the executive producer, writer, and host of the critically-acclaimed variety sketch series The Break with Michelle Wolf on Netflix.
Previously, she made international headlines as the much buzzed-about headliner of the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner. In fall 2007 Professor Wolf was the first faculty member of the SF State campus to receive the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by the Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.Michelle Wolf has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the comedy landscape with the Village Voice calling her “the voice comedy needs right now” and The Daily Beast declaring, “Michelle Wolf is the future of stand-up comedy.” Most recently, Wolf released her second hour-long stand-up special Michelle Wolf: Joke Show on Netflix. Wolf also served as president of the National Center on Disability and Journalism (NDCJ), a nonprofit organization that educates to foster fairness, accuracy and diversity in news reporting about disability issues and people with disabilities.
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Before this Wolf worked with transgendered and bisexual men and women, gay men, lesbians, and heterosexual women and men.įor many years, Professor Wolf was the president of Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT), an SF-based media literacy nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching underprivileged youth how to develop and use video production skills to critically understand media messages and produce their own stories. The most recent publication is based on focus groups with women with physical disabilities. An award-winning documentary featuring Wolf’s early body image research was produced in 1999, and she recently completed phase two of a long-term project on how messages from media and other people shape how people think and feel about their bodies and themselves. In addition to media literacy/social issues, Professor Wolf’s primary research interests center on body image, pedagogy, and the range and diversity of mediated images of groups without power in the United States. She has been active in media literacy efforts and issues surrounding electronic media representations of disenfranchised groups since the 1970s. Professor Wolf teaches courses in the areas of media literacy, electronic media and social issues, and audience research at San Francisco State University.
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