comedy club days. Among the TV shows and specials Madigan has appeared on are Last Comic Standing, I Love the 90s: Part Deux, I Love the '80s 3-D, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. She also starred in her own HBO Half-Hour Comedy Special and a Comedy Central Presents special. She is a veteran of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Bob and Tom Show. She also hosts a radio program, Blue Collar Comedy, on Sirius XM Radio. Madigan has twice participated in USO shows in support of American troops, touring both Iraq and Afghanistan along with fellow comedians like friend Lewis Black. She sometimes writes material for other comedians, as was the case in 2004 and 2005 when she was a writer for Garry Shandling when he hosted the Emmy Awards telecast. In 2016, she made an appearance on Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In the wake of her touring stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic Madigan launched her own comedy podcast in August 2020, Madigan's Pubcast. On Saturday, December 19, 2020, she appeared on Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed episode of "Girls Gone Wild" on CBS. Honors In 1996, Madigan won "Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic" at the American Comedy Awards. Personal life Madigan is single and lives in Los Angeles, California. She also owns a farm in the Midwest and, according to her, "spends inordinate amounts of time" with her family there. Madigan has four brothers and two sisters. She has often drawn on her father as both a source of comic material and work ethic. In the past, she dated Lewis Black. Their split was amicable, and she still considers Black her best friend. Media CDs Kathleen Madigan (1998), later reissued as Live (2000) Shallow Happy Thoughts for the Soul (2002) In Other Words (2006) Gone Madigan (2011) Madigan Again (2013) Bothering Jesus (2016) DVDs In Other Words (2005) Gone Madigan (2011) Madigan Again (2013) Bothering Jesus (2016) Television appearances Lewis Black's Root of All Evil - (Performer, Consulting Producer, and Writer) One Night Stand HBO Truly Funny Women" Lifetime Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus, Netflix Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, CBS, December 19, 2020 Kathleen Madigan: Hunting Bigfoot, Amazon Prime Video References External links Interview with Kathleen Madigan – Montgomery Advertiser, February, 2016. 21st-century American comedians American people of Irish descent American women comedians