Jamie Loftus


Jamie Bethany Loftus is a writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator, podcast co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her absurd work, such as her one-woman shows I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010 and Boss, Whom is Girl. She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Paste, and Super Deluxe.
Along with fellow comedian Caitlin Durante, she co-hosts The Bechdel Cast, a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film.

Career

Loftus's first job out of college was at The Boston Globe. She was fired from the role when she tweeted after a standup set, “crushing so hard at an open mic that I cum bloods.” A local radio show referenced this as “the end of journalism.”
Her often absurdist humor, sometimes bordering on performance art and documented for websites such as Paste, has included pretending to date an American Girl doll, joining Mensa as a joke, selling "Shrek nudes" with her body painted green to raise money for Planned Parenthood, and attempting to eat a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
She has written and performed several one-woman live shows. One is called I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010. Another show, Boss, Whom is Girl, was workshopped at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Los Angeles. It was then brought to the United Kingdom with shows in London and at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. Its run at the Fringe was recommended by newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Express.
In April 2018, a three-part web series she wrote and starred in, Irrational Fears was released on Comedy Central Digital.
In summer 2018, she was hired as a writer for the long-running Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.
On January 1, 2020 Loftus released a four-part podcast entitled "My Year in Mensa" that chronicles the events surrounding her applying to join Mensa for the purpose of writing a series of humorous articles for Paste Magazine.

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Live credits