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
Aug 1 2024 Fort Collins CO, The Comedy Fort
Aug 2 2024 Denver CO, The Denver Comedy Underground
Aug 4 2024 Boulder CO, The Boulder Comedy Show
Aug 7 2024 Santa Monica CA, Shore Bar
Aug 9 2024 West Hollywood CA, Jetpack Comedy
Aug 12 2024 Burbank CA, Burbank Comedy Fest
Aug 14 2024 Burbank CA, Burbank Comedy Fest
Aug 19-25 2024 Las Vegas NV, The Comedy Cellar
Sep 7 2024 Bear Creek CA
Oct 9 2024 One Liner Madness @ The Paramount, LA
Oct 11 2024 Oceanside CA private gig
Oct 15 2025 Mill Valley CA, Throckmorton Theater
Oct 17 2024 Santa Rosa CA, Don’t Tell Comedy
Oct 18 2024 San Francisco CA, The Setup at the Palace
Oct 26 2024 Filmore CA private gig
Nov 6 2024 Los Angeles CA Lyric Theater
Nov 9 2024 Yorba Linda CA private gig
Nov 18-24 2024 Las Vegas NV, The Comedy Cellar
Dec 24-26 2024 San Francisco CA Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Dec 27 2024 Eureka CA, Savage Henry Comedy Club
Dec 28-29 2024 Medford, OR, Chadwick’s
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.
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