Ryan Conner

Ryan Conner is an American stand-up comedian, writer and producer born December 17, 1980 in Woodbridge, Virginia. He grew up in a large multiracial family with eleven brothers and started doing stand-up in 2003. He broke through to a national TV audience as a top-ten finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing season 9 in 2015, where judge Norm Macdonald called his first set the best 3.5 minutes he had seen in five years and judge Roseanne Barr labelled him a 'post-modern comic'.

Ryan Conner is one of the most respected writer-comics on the US club circuit, balancing road headlining with TV writing work. He is a writer/producer for MTV's long-running Ridiculousness and was a contributing writer for two seasons of TruTV's Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner. National TV credits as a stand-up include Last Comic Standing season 9 (2015, top 10), The Late Late Show with James Corden, plus appearances on Ridiculousness. His most recent stand-up special and album Live from DC was the number one trending comedy special on Amazon Prime for multiple weeks in 2024. He hosts the sketch-comedy podcast Caligula's Grotto with Erin Conroy and is finishing a memoir titled 12 Guys Walk Into a Kitchen.

Ryan Conner tours the United States full-time, headlining Improv and Laugh Factory clubs and theatre dates with strong runs in the DC, Virginia and Mid-Atlantic markets where he grew up. His 2025 and 2026 dates are listed at ryanconnercomedy.com and on his Instagram @ryanconnercomedy.