Spring Day (comedian)

Day was born and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri,[2] in a house containing 20 dogs, five rats, three cats, two birds and a ferret.[3] From the age of 13, Day knew she wanted to live in Japan and would later studied there as an exchange student.[3]

After being fired on her first day from a teaching job in central Japan, Day moved to Tokyo and took up comedy after seeing an advert in an English language magazine.[3]

Day learned her craft in the Japanese comedy scene, headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store from 2002.[4] In 2004 she opened for Japanese comedian Zenjiro at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.[4] She has gone on to gig around the world, including clubs in London, Manchester, Dublin, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.[5]

Beginning in 2010, she has written, directed and performed five solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[5]

She has appeared in the 2014 book The Humour Code and 2017 book Joker Face alongside Jimmy Carr, Sarah Pascoe, Russel Howard and Katherine Ryan.[5] She was also featured in the 2008 documentary The Tokyo Comedy Store.[4]

Day performed alongside fellow Americans Hopwood Depree and Will Franken in a 'Yank in the UK' stand up gig at the Comedy Festival, Leicester on Friday, 7 February 2020.[2] She had intended to take her show, Spring Day: Dark Comedy for Nice People, to the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe until its cancellation due to the coronavirus pandemic.[2][6]

Interviewed multiple times for the BBC, Day has recently appeared on the You'll Do Podcast with Sarah Keyworth and Catherine Bohart.[7][8]

Day has mild cerebral palsy.[5] She is engaged to fellow comedian Tim Renkow after they began dating several years ago.[7][9]