Sara Benincasa is a New York based comedian, writer and radio talk show host (Get in Bed on Cosmo Radio - Sirius/XM). She was a citizen journalist for the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose Street Team, part of MTV's 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign. During the 2008 election, Sara created an online sensation with her Sarah Palin vlogs on Huffington Post's humor site, 23/6, a series for which she won a 2009 ECNY Award and was nominated for a Webby. Her cheerfully quirky, politically outspoken, sexually charged comedy has won praise from the Chicago Tribune, CNN, The New York Times and The Guardian, among others. Newsweek called her "freaking hilarious" and New York Times blogger Judith Warner deemed Sara "utterly hilarious." Sara is currently touring with AGORAFABULOUS, her one-woman show about agoraphobia and panic attacks. A surprisingly poignant celebration of weirdness and quirks, Sara's show has been praised as, "part enlightening and eccentric, yet all wonderfully vivid and... Read More »
Sara Benincasa is a New York based comedian, writer and radio talk show host (Get in Bed on Cosmo Radio - Sirius/XM). She was a citizen journalist for the 2008 MTV Choose or Lose Street Team, part of MTV's 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign. During the 2008 election, Sara created an online sensation with her Sarah Palin vlogs on Huffington Post's humor site, 23/6, a series for which she won a 2009 ECNY Award and was nominated for a Webby. Her cheerfully quirky, politically outspoken, sexually charged comedy has won praise from the Chicago Tribune, CNN, The New York Times and The Guardian, among others. Newsweek called her "freaking hilarious" and New York Times blogger Judith Warner deemed Sara "utterly hilarious." Sara is currently touring with AGORAFABULOUS, her one-woman show about agoraphobia and panic attacks. A surprisingly poignant celebration of weirdness and quirks, Sara's show has been praised as, "part enlightening and eccentric, yet all wonderfully vivid and engrossing," by The Apiary. She has taken AGORAFABULOUS to the DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro, NC, Theater 99 in Charleston, SC, the PIT in NYC, Improv Boston, the Playground Theater in Chicago and Largo in Los Angeles. Sara has also been honored to present AGORAFABULOUS at several comedy festivals, including LAFF (Ladies are Funny Festival) in Austin, TX, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival and San Francisco SketchFest.