Mary Beth Barone
About Mary Beth Barone
Mary Beth Barone, born May 28, 1991, is an American comedian and actress. As of 2025, she stars as Grace on Benito Skinner's Amazon Prime Video comedy series Overcompensating, for which she also writes, and co-hosts the Dear Media podcast Ride with Skinner. The two previously co-hosted the Spotify podcast Obsessed from 2021 to 2023. She became known for her live show Drag His Ass: A Fuckboy Treatment Program, which was created in 2019 and adapted into a Comedy Central web series in 2021.
Barone was raised in a Catholic family in Stamford, Connecticut, and has five older siblings. Her father worked as a surgeon and briefly performed as a stand-up comedian in New York City in the 1970s. She graduated from Westhill High School in Stamford and began studying English at Boston College but dropped out two years later, moving to Manhattan's Chinatown at age 20. While working at a start-up, she took improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade before doing stand-up during an all-women open mic in 2015, after which she decided to pursue comedy full-time.
Barone met Benito Skinner in 2019 and began hosting a monthly comedy show with him. In March 2021, she performed for the first time on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and in March 2024 she released her self-produced stand-up special, Thought Provoking, on YouTube. In 2025, she began starring in Skinner's series Overcompensating as Grace; Henry Chandonnet of The Daily Beast called her a "series standout," while Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called her role "poignant" and "perhaps the show's most moving performance." In 2018, Time Out New York described her comedic style as "dark post-modernism," and Vulture described her as "the undisputed queen of hot girl comedy" in 2020. Barone is bisexual.
Videos (105)
Videos 73 to 96 of 105.
0:36shoutout to my fellow lifers and all the waxers out there who take care of us
5.1K views
0:34Girl in an Improv Scene with 2 Guys
5K views
22:11ASMR (gluten-free pretzel sticks, pickle, cashews, peach, suggested topics)
4.9K views
0:29Mary Beth Barone | THOUGHT PROVOKING (Trailer)
4.7K views
4:47The Bird House II
4.3K views
4:42Makeup tutorial: how to cover up your newly bad skin
4.2K views
5:06OUT THERE
3.8K views
8:51ASMR (objects, original non-fiction, selected scene from It Takes Two)
3.8K views
1:19The Study Guide E5: Quarantine Update
3K views
2:23SNL Audition (1995)
3K views
18:10ASMR (gluten-free mini-pretzels, tostitos, a pickle, and The New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley)
2.4K views
6:37Good Sets Episode 1 | Girl on Girl
2.4K views
2:02Cooking Tutorial | Scrambled Eggs
2.1K views
2:27Double Homicide: The Chief
2K views
0:44Oddly Romantic | Scream
1.7K views
2:49WEENIES | The Presentation
1.7K views
5:35Good Sets Episode 3 | Pilatitties
1.4K views
0:53Oddly Romantic | Dirty Dancing
1.2K views
0:30Oddly Romantic | La La Land
1.1K views
8:10Good Sets Episode 2 | Grandaddy Issues
1.1K views
5:00Double Homicide: Hit and Run
1.1K views
1:07WEENIES | Toilets
904 views
1:45WEENIES | Fantasy
714 views
3:16Double Homicide: Gambling
705 viewsGuest appearances (11)
Videos on other comedians' channels featuring Mary Beth Barone.
Guest appearances 1 to 11 of 11.
1:02:50Mary Beth Barone Returns
Caleb Daniel Hearon
495.7K views
1:15:59Mary Beth Barone Loves Mad Men
Caleb Daniel Hearon
485.2K views
1:07Fostering babies with Mary Beth Barone | Gianmarco Soresi | The Downside Podcast
Gianmarco Vincent Soresi
378.3K views
10:22Mary Beth Barone Gives Seth the Exclusive on Being Dumped; Talks Overcompensating
Seth Meyers
206.6K views
9:51Mary Beth Barone on Her New Netflix Special and Filming Season 2 of Overcompensating
Seth Meyers
125.4K views
1:23:43Fostering Babies with Mary Beth Barone | The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi | Podcast
Gianmarco Vincent Soresi
96.2K views
0:53Mary Beth Barone wasn't the only one celebrating at her stand-up special’s afterparty
Seth Meyers
36.7K views
6:36Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Barone on Their Friendship and Filming Overcompensating
Seth Meyers
31.8K views
1:35Mary Beth Barone's dog, Pinky, makes her Late Night debut alongside her nanny, Benito Skinner
Seth Meyers
31.7K views
1:15:04Mary Beth Barone | Senses Working Overtime with David Cross | Headgum
David Cross
11.2K views
1:11:08Meet Cutes & Who's the Father w Mary Beth Barone & Maddie Wiener - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
Jared Freid
2.4K viewsChannels on this page: Caleb Daniel Hearon, Gianmarco Vincent Soresi, Seth Meyers, David Cross, Jared Freid
Frequently asked questions
What is Mary Beth Barone best known for?
She is known for starring as Grace on Benito Skinner's series Overcompensating and for her live show Drag His Ass: A Fuckboy Treatment Program, which was adapted into a Comedy Central web series in 2021.
What podcasts does Mary Beth Barone host?
She co-hosts the Dear Media podcast Ride with Benito Skinner, and the two previously co-hosted the Spotify podcast Obsessed from 2021 to 2023.
How did Mary Beth Barone start in comedy?
She took improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade and did stand-up during an all-women open mic in 2015, after which she decided to pursue comedy full-time.
What is Mary Beth Barone's stand-up special?
In March 2024, she released her self-produced stand-up special, Thought Provoking, on YouTube.
How has Mary Beth Barone's comedic style been described?
Time Out New York described it as "dark post-modernism" in 2018, and Vulture described her as "the undisputed queen of hot girl comedy" in 2020.
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