https://johnathanappel.com/home daily 0.75 2015-08-25 https://johnathanappel.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2024-05-24 https://johnathanappel.com/about-1 daily 1.0 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b480d9e96d4557224fb61d1/386ba5eb-0ff0-4cc8-bee9-91b9672b162b/IMG_1075.JPG About - 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. He’s won five Emmys for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series, four Writers’ Guild Awards for Best Comedy/Variety Talk Series, and a Peabody. His writing has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Boston Globe, Hard Drive, Weekly Humorist, Points In Case, Robot Butt, Little Old Lady Comedy, and his college newspaper. 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 worked as an associate producer and teaching artist for Story Pirates, a nationally recognized arts organization that performs stories written by kids. 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It’s the Only Way To Survive The Job Market And The Wrath Of Our Robot Overlords With These Latest Mass Shootings, We Condemn The Violent Influence of Princess Zelda, Donkey Kong, And Super Mario New Tracks Dropped By Kremlin-Approved Rappers Why Your Cat Has Economic Anxiety I Believe In the Rehabilitation of The Child I’m Asking You To Sentence To Life Without Parole Weekly Humorist A Class-Action Lawsuit Against Wayne Enterprises Robot Butt Completely and Entirely Original Ideas For A Podcast I Just Thought Of Zillow Listings From An Orwellian Nightmare Little Old Lady Comedy New York Times Film Critic A.O. Scott Reviews My Instagram Stories How To Get Over A Break-Up Racism Is Still Going To Die Out, Right? I’m A Plastic Straw. I Get It But Don’t We Have Bigger Problems? His College Newspaper (WOW!) https://johnathanappel.com/about daily 0.75 2018-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b480d9e96d4557224fb61d1/1531449933511-E1S4Z05JT4T2LTY9EE4H/IMG_4164.jpg About Johnathan Appel is a comedian, writer, and actor based in New York City. He is often very tired. He performs stand up and storytelling regularly at venues all around the city, including the Magnet Theater, the PIT, and Q.E.D. His writing has been featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and his college newspaper. He also works as an associate producer and teaching artist for Story Pirates, a nationally recognized arts organization that performs stories written by kids. He has trained with the Magnet Theater, Second City, and The Funny School of Good Acting, among others. 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