Kelly Anneken is what happens when Kim Kardashian looks like Bette Midler and tweets like Roseanne.
This Oakland-based funny person and all-around swell gal performs standup comedy and is a regular at the Punch Line San Francisco, Cobb’s and Rooster T. Feathers. Kelly has appeared at Iowa’s Green Gravel Comedy Festival and Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival. She has shared a stage with Jim Gaffigan and Anthony Jeselnik at Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival and has appeared “in conversation” with Tig Notaro, Amy Schumer, John Waters, and Carey Elwes. Her debut comedy release “Twenty Minutes to Sell” is available wherever digital recordings are sold.
Kelly is well-known as the co-host of the internationally popular Downton Abbey podcast “Up Yours, Downstairs.” She has served as executive director for feminist sketch troupe Femikaze and managing editor of online humor journal Hobo Pancakes. Her writing has also been published by The Mary Sue, KQED Pop, and The Tusk.