about
Matt Kirshen's precision wit has earned him an impressive reputation on the international comedy circuit.
Starting his standup comedy career in the UK, he moved to America as a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He has also appeared on Comedy Central’s @Midnight, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Paul Provenza’s Green Room on Showtime, and The Nerdist, and is one of the regular guest co-hosts of StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Currently based in Los Angeles, he has been a writer for The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award, and Arrested Development on Netflix. Matt has also written for and appeared on How To Build… Everything on the Science channel and Comedy KnockOut on TruTV.
His debut CD, "I Guess We'll Never Know" was named in Laughspin Magazine's top 10 albums of the year and his hit appearance at Just For Laughs festival in Montreal resulted in no fewer than 4 of his gags appearing in the Montreal Gazette's round up of their best jokes of the fest.
He also hosts Probably Science, a weekly comedy and science podcast featuring a mix of comedians and scientists breaking down the week’s science news.
While it's his TV appearances that most comedy fans will recognize him from, they are often surprised at the breadth and scope of his material, described by one reviewer as "intelligent, but with the emphasis firmly on the funny.”
TOUR DATES
Jan 7 2025 Sydney AUS, Enmore Comedy Club
Jan 8 2025 Sydney AUS, Ritz Comedy Club
Jan 9-11 2025 Sydney AUS, Comedy Store
Jan 17-Feb 15 2025 Perth AUS, Festival shows and live Probably Science
Feb 19-22 2025 Melbourne AUS, Comic’s Lounge
Mar 28-29 2025 Lincoln City OR
Apr 25-26 2025 San Luis Obispo CA, SLO Funny
June 5 2025 Ann Arbor MI with Sarah Millican
June 6 2025 Ann Arbor MI with Sarah Millican
June 7 2025 Cleveland OH with Sarah Millican
June 8 2025 Columbus OH with Sarah Millican
June 10 2025 Columbus OH with Sarah Millican
June 11 2025 Pittsburgh PA with Sarah Millican
June 13 2025 Washington DC with Sarah Millican
June 14 2025 Baltimore MD with Sarah Millican
June 15 2025 Virginia Beach VA with Sarah Millican
June 17 2025 Philadelphia PA with Sarah Millican
June 18 2025 Philadelphia PA with Sarah Millican
June 20 2025 Hartford CT with Sarah Millican
June 21 2025 Providence RI with Sarah Millican
June 22 2025 Boston MA with Sarah Millican
June 25 2025 NYC Beacon Theater with Sarah Millican
June 26 2025 NYC Beacon Theater with Sarah Millican
June 27 2025 Boston MA with Sarah Millican
June 28 2025 Portland ME with Sarah Millican
Jul 21-27 2025 Las Vegas Comedy Cellar
Sep 14 2025 Simi Valley CA
Sept 20 2025 Beaumont CA
Oct 9-12 2025 Savage Henry Comedy Festival, Eureka CA
Oct 16 2025 Minneapolis MN with Sarah Millican
Oct 17 2025 Chicago IL with Sarah Millican
Oct 18 2025 Chicago IL with Sarah Millican
Oct 19 2025 Milwaukee WI with Sarah Millican
Oct 21 2025 Minneapolis MN with Sarah Millican
Oct 22 2025 St Louis MO with Sarah Millican
Oct 24 2025 Denver CO with Sarah Millican
Oct 25 2025 Salt Lake City UT with Sarah Millican
Oct 28 2025 Seattle WA with Sarah Millican
Oct 29 2025 Portland OR with Sarah Millican
Oct 30 2025 Seattle WA with Sarah Millican
Nov 1 2025 San Francisco CA with Sarah Millican
Nov 2 2025 San Francisco CA with Sarah Millican
Nov 3 2025 Los Angeles The Wiltern with Sarah Millican
Nov 4 2025 Los Angeles The Wiltern with Sarah Millican
Nov 5 2025 San Diego CA with Sarah Millican
Nov 7 2025 Las Vegas NV with Sarah Millican
Nov 8 2025 Mesa AZ with Sarah Millican
Nov 9 2025 Phoenix AZ with Sarah Millican
Nov 11 2025 Austin TX with Sarah Millican
Nov 12 2025 Austin TX with Sarah Millican
Nov 16 2025 Houston TX with Sarah Millican
Nov 18 2025 Atlanta GA with Sarah Millican
Nov 19 2025 Nashville TN with Sarah Millican
Nov 21 2025 Miami Beach FL with Sarah Millican
Nov 22 2025 St Petersburg FL with Sarah Millican
video
The Jim Jefferies Show
Why the British royal family is ridiculous, and why the pessimism they’ve engendered in Brits is so necessary.
Comedy Gives Back
Matt Kirshen on Grocery Shopping at Night at the Comedy Gives Back International show.
Brexit & American Politics
Matt Kirshen finds out Americans aren't the only ones who can screw up democracy.
podcast
PROBABY SCIENCE
Professional comedians go through the week in science news with special guests from the worlds of comedy and science. Incompetently. Hosted by Matt Kirshen, Andy Wood, and Jesse Case.
“One of the few shows—perhaps the only—that is both genuinely informative and totally obsessed with scatological humor” - AV Club
WhERE TO FIND MATT