| Intro | American comedian, writer and radio talk show host |
| Is |
Internet personality Radio personality Podcaster Writer Comedian |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Film, TV, Stage & Radio Humor Internet Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 25 October 1980 |
| Age: | 39 years |
Sara Benincasa (born October 25, 1980) is an American comedian and author.
Early life
Benincasa has a degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has an M.A. in Secondary School Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. After graduation she taught with Americorps in Texas.
Career
She was a citizen journalist for MTV covering the 2008 United States presidential election as part of MTV’s 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign.
Benincasa co-hosted the Cosmo Radio sex/relationship talk show Get in Bed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio until September 2010, when Sirius XM reduced the channel’s programming schedule and let go several of the channel’s hosts. She then started a podcast with Marcus Parks called “Sex and Other Human Activities” which features a sex questions segment (using questions sent via email and Formspring) that launched in February 2011. The September 19, 2012, episode, entitled “End of an Era,” is described as “Sara’s final show on the old SAOHA.”
Benincasa was featured on Nerve.com’s BlogALog as a comedic blogger. Her last post on the SJ1000 blog was April 1, 2008, in which she suggested that followers missing her internet presence go to her official website, her Myspace page, her MTV Think profile, or her blog. Along with her blog, Benincasa filmed a series of interviews titled Tub Talk with Sara B. The series featured Benincasa in a bathtub with various comedic personalities, including Reggie Watts, Jonathan Ames, and Andy Borowitz. Benincasa has since revamped the web series on her YouTube account as Gettin’ Wet with Sara Benincasa. Interviewees include Margaret Cho, Donald Glover, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and James Urbaniak.
In September 2008 she began producing a vlog in which she parodies the role of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. She is particularly attentive to Palin’s Midwestern accent. These vlogs were uploaded to Benincasa’s YouTube profile, until a partnership with Huffington Post’s humor site 23/6 was established and the vlogs were moved to the twentythreesix YouTube page.
In 2009, Benincasa developed a one-woman show about her experiences with agoraphobia and panic attacks. She has since sold the literary rights to Agorafabulous! to William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins.
Benincasa has contributed to the website Jezebel.
Personal life
Benincasa lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
Books
Fiction
- Great, New York:: HarperTeen, 2014, ISBN 9780062222695
- DC Trip, Culver City, California: Adaptive Books, 2015, ISBN 9780996066631
Nonfiction
- Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom, New York: William Morrow, 2012, ISBN 9780062024411
- Real Artists Have Day Jobs (And Other Awesome Things They Don’t Teach You In School), New York: William Morrow, 2016, ISBN 9780062369819