Melinda Hill

Melinda Hill (born December 22, 1972) is an American comedian, actress, and screenwriter best known for her stand-up comedy work and appearances on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Bonnie Hunt Show, Comics Unleashed, and Who Wants to Date a Comedian?, and as a host on Comedy TV.

Melinda Hill
Hill in costume on the set of "Romantic Encounters with Melinda Hill," 2012
BornDecember 22, 1972
Mediumstand-up, television, film
NationalityAmerican
Websitehttp://www.melindahill.com/

Stand-Up Comedy

With Maria Bamford and Natasha Leggero, she cofounded the critically acclaimed stand-up comedy show What's Up, Tiger Lily? at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB), which ran for 10 years and was known for frequent celebrity drop-ins.[1] Hill has performed for U.S. military troops in Hawaii, Guam, Singapore, Okinawa, Marshall Islands, Honduras, Bahamas, Guantanamo Bay, Curaçao and Greenland.

Television and Film

As an actress, Hill has appeared on television in Reno 911!, The Sarah Silverman Program, Glory Daze, and Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, produced by Adam Sandler. She is also in the film Bright Day opposite Bill Maher. As a voice actress, she can be heard in Adventure Time and in the Emmy Award-winning Citibank commercial "Outfit."

Hill created, wrote, and starred in the web series Romantic Encounters and hosted an interview series in an alley behind her comedy show called All Growz Up with Melinda Hill.[2][3] In 2014, with Bamford, she co-created, wrote, and starred in The Program (Funny or Die Productions),[4][5] which was named one of LA Weekly's "10 Best Web Series of 2014.”[6] Her script Ghosted was recognized as one of 2017's top TV pilot scripts by women on advocacy group WeForShe's WriteHer list.[7]

gollark: It also enjoys consuming all my RAM.
gollark: Well, the frontend does, at least.
gollark: See, I do arguably horrible web stuff, but it runs in an actual web browser.
gollark: Well, yes, but the resource waste...
gollark: Hmm, that's annoying, I ran `pacman -Syu` on my server and it just keeps saying "Import PGP key whatever [Y/n]" and ignores my input.

References
  1. "What's Up, Tiger Lily? Stand-Up Comedy". UCB Theatre. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  2. "Video Licks: We are Obsessed with Melinda Hill's 'All Growz Up' Web Series". Comedy Cake. 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  3. "Karen Kilgariff Reveals What She Wanted to Be When She Grew Up, During Interview in an Alley After a Comedy Show". The Comedy Bureau - LA Comedy and Open Mics. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  4. "Maria Bamford, Melinda Hill Team Up For 'The Program' On Funny Or Die". Tubefilter. 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  5. "Maria Bamford and Melinda Hill Star in New 12-Step Funny or Die Series 'The Program'". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  6. Carrie, Stephanie (2014-07-18). "Maria Bamford and Melinda Hill's New Comedy About Going Into Debt". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  7. McNary, Dave (2017-02-07). "Advocacy Group WeForShe Unveils Top TV Pilot Scripts by Women (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-06.



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