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.