Wade, Kilmartin joked that she "make sweet love" to the person who leaked the brief. She also commented that if the leaker turned out to be a Republican, she would "joyfully abort our fetus and let them know." Writing As a writer, Kilmartin was on the staff of The Late Late Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (on which she was also a frequent panelist), and Comedy Central's Too Late with Adam Carolla and The Bonnie Hunt Show. She also wrote articles published on Huffington Post, Babble.com, and co-authored Sherri Shepherd's memoir, Permission Slips. In 2012, she wrote the New York Times bestseller Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us. In 2018, she published Dead People S*ck, "an honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying." Personal life Kilmartin has a son born in 2006. She is a single mother who often jokes about her son and motherhood. Her mother died from complications of COVID-19 on June 18, 2020. Discography Five Minutes to Myself (2009) 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad (2017) Corset'' (2021) References External links The Jackie and Laurie Show website 1965 births Living people American stand-up comedians Last Comic Standing contestants People from Walnut Creek, California Comedians from California 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians American women comedians People from Santa Clara County, California UCLA Bruins women's swimmers Writers from California 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American writers 20th-century American women