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Julie Klausner is a comedian and illustrator who lives in wonderful New York City.

Her writing credits include Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse on SNL, VH1's Starveillence and All Access, and her Channel 102 series, Cat News which was recently featured in Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times. Her comic book, Animal Party, counts among its fans Patton Oswalt and Dave Eggers, and her comics and illustrations have appeared in McSweeney's Future Dictionary of America, The Stranger, Jest, Heeb and The New York Dog Magazine to which she is a regular contributor.

Her TV credits include various VH1 clip shows, as well as SNL, Conan, Strangers With Candy and I Love The 30's on Comedy Central's Motherload. She's appeared in many shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, including Fancy (one-woman show), NeoTokyo GirlCrush 2040, Killgore: The Musical, The Hall & Oates Mumbo Jumbo Hour, and most recently, her 1970s Lesbian Children's Show Spectacular, Free To Be Friends, which she wrote with her co-star Sue Galloway.

Other theater credits include Julie's turn as her own Streisand-belting unborn child in The Chipperton Family Vocaltainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour, which was an official selection of the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and David & Jodi & David & Jackie, starring Jackie Hoffman.

Email Julie at [email protected]

Representation: David Tochterman (310) 712-3739

4/18: Watch Cat News on Munchies, a new TV show on the Fuse network

4/3: Julie makes Gawker

3/13: Check out Julie's new reel

3/10: Julie and Sue play the Loser's Lounge Battle of The Bands: Blondie vs. The Pretenders this Saturday @ The Knitting Factory

3/1: Check out Julie's weiner dog comic in the new issue of the NY Dog Magazine

2/28: Betty and Joan made a decidedly non-sexy appearance on the Jake and Jackie show. Go here and click on "Lesbians" for the podcast

2/23: Julie gets slapped in this short featuring Aziz Ansari and Andy Blitz as Other Music clerks

2/21: Andrea Rosen & Julie are the writhing yentes in this promo video for Rob Kutner's Purim show @ Makor

2/2: More FTBF write-ups in The Apiary, The Charleston City Paper, and LA Weekly

2/1: FTBF is running at UCB LA! Click here for tickets

12/21: Free to Be Friends reviewed in the NY Blade

12/17: Julie credited on Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse cartoon on SNL. Click here to watch

12/15: New comic in the December/January issue of The New York Dog Magazine

12/1: FTBF Extended into January

11/28: Smiley Muffin & Cat News in The New York Times

11/15: Julie is all over I Love The 30's at Comedy Central's Motherload

10/26: Free To Be Friends gets a November run @ UCB

9/5: Cat News featured on Nerve.com

9/1: Get a sneak peek at Julie's new comic for the next issue of The New York Dog Magazine

7/21: Watch the updated higher quality Cat News 3

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7/21: Cat News written up in the July 29th issue of Entertainment Weekly

7/10: The Hound posted in Media

7/3: Evan Dorkin (Space Ghost, Milk & Cheese) mentioned Animal Party in his blog

6/22: I'm mentioned in this Variety article about my manager David Tochterman.

5/30: Cat News Put To Sleep
I self-canceled Cat News as a means of going out classy. I hope you like Episode Three. And don't worry: Smiley will be back.

4/25: Good News---Cat News!

Episode One Episode Two

Julie's Channel 102 pilot, "Cat News," received the most votes at this month's screening! Watch it here, and stay tuned for C.N. Episode 2, premiering at UCB at 8 PM on April 25th.

2/17: Chippertons in Aspen!
The Chipperton Family Vocal-tainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour, Eric Drysdale's inspired, medley-drenched send-up of 1970's variety shows, is going to the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen Colorado! Holy effin' cats!