Sara Schaefer

Sara Schaefer (born July 10, 1978) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and author. She was raised in Midlothian, Virginia, the daughter of Billie and William "Bill" Schaefer; her mother started the charity Pennies for Heaven, Inc. She attended Maggie Walker Governor's School and went to college at William & Mary. Following college, in 2000, she moved to New Orleans and participated in the theater scene, and in 2001 she moved to New York City and began writing, producing and performing comedy while also working as a damages analyst at a New York City law firm.

In 2006 and 2007, Schaefer hosted an online comedy and music show for AOL called The DL, for which she made around 350 videos or segments with artists ranging from Hulk Hogan and Aretha Franklin to Jimmy Fallon and Jamie Kennedy. In 2007 she was a featured performer at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and in 2009 New York Magazine named her one of the "Ten new comedians that funny people find funny." She was the Head Blogger for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2011, winning the Emmy Award for Creative Achievement in Interactive Media (non-fiction) in both 2009 and 2010, and in 2011 she wrote for the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

From early 2011 to 2014, Schaefer co-hosted a podcast with comedian Nikki Glaser called You Had To Be There, and their weekly talk show Nikki & Sara Live premiered on January 29, 2013, on MTV, running for two seasons before cancellation. In 2013 she made her stand-up comedy television debut on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, and her stand-up show Little White Box debuted to a sold-out run at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents half-hour special aired in November 2019, and her memoir Grand was published by Gallery Books in August 2020.