Adam Cayton-Holland

Adam Cayton-Holland (born June 2, 1980) is an American stand-up comedian from Denver, Colorado, best known for his work with the comedy trio The Grawlix and their sitcom series Those Who Can't. He is also a writer whose first book, Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir, received the 2019 Colorado Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction. He is the founder and executive director of the High Plains Comedy Festival, and as a comic he is a regular headliner at clubs and colleges throughout the United States and abroad.

Cayton-Holland started in stand-up by attending open mics at Denver dive bars in 2003, and in 2006 won Comedy Works' New Talent showcase against nearly 200 other comedians. He was included in Esquire's 25 Best New Stand-Up Comedians in 2012, invited to the New Faces competition at Montreal's Just for Laughs, and named one of "10 Comics to Watch" by Variety in 2015. He made his national television stand-up debut on Conan in 2013 and won episodes of @midnight in 2014 and 2015.

The Grawlix is a Denver comedy trio that also includes Ben Roy and Andrew Orvedahl, producing a monthly show at The Bug Theater. In June 2012 the trio teamed with The Nix Brothers to produce a pilot called Those Who Can't for Amazon Studios; TruTV later re-filmed it, and the show aired for three seasons. Before becoming a comedian, Cayton-Holland was a journalist at Denver's alt-weekly Westword from 2003 through 2008, best known for his column "What's So Funny?", and in late 2013 he had a piece called "Ghosts I've Known" published in The Atlantic.