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Kathleen Madigan

Kathleen Madigan is a TV personality and comedian known for being funny and making people laugh. Observational comedy, which her shows are based on, is a comedy that makes fun of everyday things. It's a prevalent and preferred kind of comedy that comedians all over the world do.

Early Life

Kathleen Madigan has eight siblings. Her dad was an attorney, and her mom was a nurse. Kathleen is a very religious Irish Catholic. She lived in the suburbs of Florissant for most of her life. Kathleen went to private Catholic schools during high school for a few years. She liked sports and did well in volleyball, track, and basketball at Osage Public School.

Even though she doesn't have much, she is a good shooter. She got her diploma from McCluer North High School in 1983. She attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1988. During SIUE, she worked for the Student's newspaper and interned with the professional hockey team St. Louis Blues.

Career

Madigan's first job was in print journalism. She worked for the Suburban Journals newspapers in St. Louis and the Missouri Athletic Club's publications department. At the same time, she did stand-up comedy at comedy clubs in the St. Louis area on "open mic" nights. She says that her father, Jack, was the one who encouraged her to try being a comedian.

Madigan quit her job in Missouri because she had dates booked for the next 30 weeks. She says that people like Ron White, Richard Jeni, and Lewis Black influenced her in the early days of comedy clubs. Soon as her popularity grew at these events, The Funny Bone (a chain of comedy clubs across the country) offered her a job as a stand-up comic.

Madigan has been on several TV shows and specials, including Last Comic Standing, I Love the 90s: Part Deux, I Love the 80s 3-D, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. She has been on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Bob and Tom Show. She also had her own HBO Half-Hour Comedy Special and a Comedy Central Presents special in which she was the main character.

Aside from being a comedian, she also hosts a radio show on Sirius XM Radio called Blue Collar Comedy. Madigan has been on tour with comedians like Lewis Black for two USO shows to support American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She sometimes writes jokes for other comedians.