Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz\xa0is an award-winning comedian and\xa0New York Times\xa0bestselling author. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard College, where he became President of the\xa0Harvard Lampoon. In 1998, he began contributing humor to\xa0The New Yorker\u2018s \u201cShouts and Murmurs\u201d and \u201cTalk of the Town\u201d departments, and in 2001, he created \u201cThe Borowitz Report,\u201d a satirical news column, which has millions of readers around the world. In 2012,\xa0The New Yorker\xa0began publishing \u201cThe Borowitz Report.\u201d As a storyteller, he hosted \u201cStories at the Moth\u201d from 1999 to 2009. As a comedian, he has played to sold-out venues around the world, including during his national tour, \u201cMake America Not Embarrassing Again,\u201d from 2018 to 2020. His new book,\xa0Profiles in\xa0Ignorance: How America\u2019s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber, received a starred review from Kirkus, which called it \u201cdevastatingly funny.\u201d He is the first-ever winner of the National Press Club\u2019s humor award. He lives with his family in New Hampshire. On September 17, 2022, Andy Borowitz came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by KQED politics and government correspondent Marisa Lagos. The program also includes a dramatic reading by actress Vivien Straus of Dan Quayle quotations compiled by Borowitz.