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About

Johnathan Appel is a comedian and writer based in New York City. He knows that’s very generic. He is currently a writer for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

His writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Hard Drive, Weekly Humorist, Points In Case, Robot Butt, Little Old Lady Comedy, and his college newspaper. He has written for BoogieManja sketch team, Dropout Kids, and performs with his indie character team, Poughkeepsie. He runs Some Fun Lines, an open mic for satire and humor writing. He also performs standup and started doing that in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (he ran an open mic there, it was slightly less awful than the one he ran in NYC).

He was featured in Vulture’s Follow Friday column and was a 2019 Finalist for the NBC Late Night Writers’ Workshop. He has studied with Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Magnet Theater, and The Funny School of Good Acting, among others. He also works as an associate producer and teaching artist for Story Pirates, a nationally recognized arts organization that performs stories written by kids.

You can find him on the depressing bird app here.

Johnathan Appel is often confused with the "Jonathan Apple" which is a fruit based in Woodstock, NY.