Jamie Loftus

Jamie Bethany Loftus is a writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator, podcast co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her solo work, such as her one-woman shows I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010 and Boss, Whom is Girl.[1][2] She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Paste, and Super Deluxe.[1] She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on Robot Chicken in 2020.[3]

Jamie Loftus
Asperger's Are Us (left) and Jamie Loftus (right)
Born (1992-08-18) 18 August 1992
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
MediumStand up, animation, television
GenresAlternative comedy

Along with fellow comedian Caitlin Durante, she co-hosts The Bechdel Cast, a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film.[2][1][4]

Career

Loftus's first job out of college was at The Boston Globe. She was fired from the role when she tweeted after a standup set, “crushing so hard at an open mic that I cum bloods.” A local radio show referenced this as “the end of journalism.”[5]

Her often absurdist humor, sometimes bordering on performance art and documented for websites such as Paste, has included pretending to date an American Girl doll, joining Mensa as a joke, selling "Shrek nudes" with her body painted green to raise money for Planned Parenthood, and attempting to eat a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.[1][6]

She has written and performed several one-woman live shows. One is called I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010.[1] Another show, Boss, Whom is Girl, was workshopped at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Los Angeles. It was then brought to the United Kingdom with shows in London and at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe.[2] Its run at the Fringe was recommended by newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Express.[7][8][9]

In April 2018, a three-part web series she wrote and starred in, Irrational Fears was released on Comedy Central Digital.[1]

In summer 2018, she was hired as a writer for the long-running Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.[1]

On January 1, 2020 Loftus released a four-part podcast entitled My Year in Mensa that chronicles the events surrounding her applying to join Mensa for the purpose of writing a series of humorous articles for Paste Magazine.[10][11][5]

On November 23, 2020 Loftus began releasing a new 10-part podcast entitled Lolita Podcast about the pop cultural imprint, misinterpretations, and adaptations of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita.[12]

Credits

Live credits
  • Death Wish – Writer/Performer/Director (2014)
  • Basketball City – Writer (2015)
  • Bad Art – Writer/Performer (2015)
  • I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010 – Writer/Performer (2017)
  • The Hacker Who Codes – Writer/Performer (2018)
  • Boss, Whom is Girl – Writer/Performer (2019)
  • Jamie Loftus, Jamie Loftus – Writer/Performer (2020)

Film/Television credits

References
  1. Escandon, Rosa (September 7, 2018). "25-Year-Old Jamie Loftus Is Bringing Fringe Comedy to the Mainstream". Forbes. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  2. Crae, Ross (July 24, 2019). "Fringe Q&A: Jamie Loftus reckons comedy festival is the perfect antidote to the world being an "active hell"". The Sunday Post. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  3. "Jamie Loftus". Television Academy. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  4. Zaino III, Nick A. (April 25, 2019). "How the Women in Comedy Festival inspired a new wave of talent". Boston Globe. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  5. Zhang, Cat (March 9, 2020). "Jamie Loftus, the Comedian Who Infiltrated Mensa". New Yorker.
  6. Boult, Adam (June 15, 2017). "Woman spends year eating copy of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  7. Logan, Brian (August 12, 2019). "Edinburgh festival 2019: the shows we recommend". The Guardian. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  8. "The best of what's on at the Edinburgh festival". The Times. August 18, 2019. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  9. Kitchener, Shaun (July 23, 2019). "Edinburgh Fringe 2019: 37 unmissable shows at this year's festival". Daily Express. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  10. Loftus, Jamie (December 31, 2019). "Jamie Loftus's Year in Mensa Ends at the Mensa Annual Gathering". Paste Magazine. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  11. "This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Jamie Loftus's Year in Mensa". Vulture. January 2, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  12. Coburn, Randall (November 23, 2020). "Jamie Loftus' new podcast unpacks how Nabokov's Lolita has been "twisted" over the years". A.V. Club. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
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