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Megan Beth Koester is an American comedian, writer, journalist and actress who regularly performs stand-up comedy in Los Angeles, CA. [1] From 2013 to 2018, she was a contributor to Vice Magazine, writing about media, comedy, the entertainment industry, feminism and Los Angeles culture. [2] [3] She writes on similar subjects for Jezebel, Thrillist and The Guardian. [4]

Megan Koester co-authored The Indignities of Being a Woman with Merrill Markoe in 2018, an audio work published by Audible which combines historic research with humor. [5] The album discusses the experience of womanhood throughout time from the perspective of two women working in comedy. [6]

In January 2019, her comedy album Tertium Non Datur, created from a live taping hosted by Andy Kindler in May 2018, [7] was released by Aspecialthing Records.

Koester played the character of Madeline Cross in "The Pain of Being Alive," episode 3 of season 1 of Comedy Central's Corporate, a TV show that makes fun of the employee experience in a large corporation. [8] L.A. Weekly named her comedy act "one to watch" in 2015. [9]

Along with co-hosts Emily Whittemore, and Alison Stevenson (Mary Kobayashi left early on [10] ), Koester was also featured on the Adult Swim streaming network's The Perfect Women . [11] On July 23, 2019, Koester began the weekly podcast Grifthorse with comedian Howard Kremer.

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  2. ↑ Zeisler, Andi (2016). We were feminists once: From riot grrrl to CoverGirl, the buying and selling of a political movement . Public Affairs. pp.  196. ISBN   9781610397735.
  3. ↑ "Vice contributor Megan Koester". Vice. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  4. ↑ Koester, Megan (2017-03-03). "Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  5. ↑ Carras, Christi (2018-08-14). "Merrill Markoe, Megan Koester to Debut Podcast 'The Indignities of Being a Woman' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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