Gabriel Rutledge

Gabriel Rutledge is an American stand-up comedian based in the Pacific Northwest, born in 1973 in Bay Center, Washington. Active in stand-up since the early 2000s, he won the Seattle International Comedy Competition in 2004 and built a national career on clean, observational humor about marriage, parenting and life in small-town Washington.

Rutledge won the Seattle International Comedy Competition in 2004 and took the top prize at the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta in 2017. He has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, Nickelodeon's NickMom Night Out, Laughs on FOX and the Amazon Prime series Inside Joke, and is a frequent guest on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom radio show. His Dry Bar Comedy hour One Third of the Room (2022) racked up millions of views, followed in 2024 by his self-produced YouTube special Nectarine, filmed at the Spokane Comedy Club. His stand-up is clean, observational and built around relatable family stories.

Gabriel Rutledge tours headlining comedy clubs across the United States and Canada, with regular stops at the Spokane Comedy Club, Tacoma Comedy Club and Comedy Works in Denver. Between dates he hosts the podcast and newsletter The Drive Home with Gabriel Rutledge and uploads stand-up clips to his YouTube channel and Instagram. He has also written two books, Happiness Isn't Funny and the satirical children's book There's No F@!*ing Way You're Getting a Pony.