Humor Magazine Live: With Comedy Writers from Late Night

You’ve seen their work on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The New Yorker, and beyond. Now’s your chance to see them live for one night only. Join a cast of award-winning comedy writers for a laughter-filled evening of short comedy pieces, cartoons, audience interactions, and more!

Katie Rich is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody award-winning writer, actor, and producer. A former Second City mainstage performer, Katie spent seven seasons writing for SNL. She co-created, starred in, and executive produced Chicago Party Aunt for Netflix. You can hear her on animated shows like HBOMAX’s The Batman Audio Adventures, The Flash: Midnight Circus, and more. She has written for and consulted on many award shows such as The Emmys, The Academy Awards, The Golden Globes, and more. She is the co-showrunner of the hit animated show Harley Quinn.

Aaron Jackson is an actor/writer/comedian based in New York City. Most recently he was seen starring Off Broadway in Messy White Gays. He is the co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the A24 film Dicks: The Musical. His novel, The Astonishing Life Of August March (HarperCollins) is available wherever books are sold. Other selected TV/film credits include: Las Culturistas Culture Awards, Fantasmas, The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper, The Detour, Crashing, Broad City. Aaron was a longtime performer at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in NYC and their touring company.

Asher Perlman is a comedian, a writer, and a cartoonist, based in Brooklyn. Currently he is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He has won a WGA Award and a Peabody Award, and has been nominated seven times for an Emmy Award. A best-selling collection of his cartoons, Well, This Is Me, was published in 2024, and a second collection, Hi, It’s Me Again, has just been released.

Jen Spyra is a former staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Onion. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Air Mail, Glamour, McSweeney’s and elsewhere, and she has written and developed television and film for HBO, MAX, Universal, WB, and Peacock. The title story from her debut short story collection Big Time is being adapted as a feature comedy, and her forthcoming debut novel will be published by Random House in 2026. She is proud to be the announcer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Steve Waltien is a Peabody Award–winning, five-time Emmy–nominated writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a performer with the Improvised Shakespeare Company. An alum of Second City Mainstage and iO Theater, his TV and film credits include Don’t Think Twice, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, The Second City Project, and Chicago PD. He voices Prince Tomblaine Belaroth on Hello From the Magic Tavern and co-created Phish’s Sci-Fi Soldier.