Jann Karam

Winsome comic's comic Jann Karam - whose blithe and incisive standup work has long brightened national television screens and top-tier comedy stages - found her comedy career footing while attending Arizona State University and regularly turning up on open mic nights at Macayo's Mexican Food Restaurant in Scottsdale. She was paid one chimichanga per joke. After developing her act (and gaining 13 pounds), she moved to New York City, where she began working as a professional comedian. Her numerous TV credits--stand up performances and series acting roles--include repeat appearances on both The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, HBO's legendary 13th Annual Young Comedians' Show, How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), Comics Unleashed, The Arsenio Hall Show, Norm, Mad About You, Politically Incorrect, Dr. Katz, and many others. She was a regular sketch player in the last incarnation of The Carol Burnett Show and, in the now classic Seinfeld episode "Th