Ali Kolbert is “a post-therapy Howard Stern in the body of a 5’2″ 30-year-old lesbian.”
After graduating from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Ali landed a coveted job as an NBC Page at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where she worked on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers. It only took a couple of years until she made her television debut in that very building, performing her clever and provocative stand-up on The Tonight Show in 2017.
Since then, Ali has appeared on The TODAY Show, NBC’s Bring The Funny, in countless episodes of TruTV’s Comedy Knockout and delivered her sophomore stand-up performance on A Little Late with Lily Singh. She has been featured in Variety Magazine’s comedy issue, profiled in Forbes Under 30 and was named one of New York’s Funniest in 2019.
In 2021, Ali starred as a lead on TruTV’s half hour comedy, Top Secret Videos, alongside Ron Funches and Brian Posehn. More recently, Ali returned to perform stand-up on The Tonight Show and was named one of Just For Laugh’s 2022 New Faces. In addition to performing stand-up comedy nightly, Ali has a combined social media following of over 300k and hosts her hit podcast on Spotify, Breaking Down with Ali Kolbert.
