Laurie Kilmartin

Laurie Kilmartin (born July 16, 1965) is an American comedian and writer best known for being a finalist on Last Comic Standing season 7. She is currently a staff writer for the Conan O'Brien show Conan. 2Early life Kilmartin was born in 1965 in Santa Clara County, California, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. Her father was a civil engineer, and worked abroad for much of her childhood, building damns and bridges in Iran, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a competitive swimmer. 2Career 3Stand-up Kilmartin began performing standup in 1987, doing contract comedy gigs in the Pacific Northwest. She has since performed stand-up on Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Showtime, the USO Tour Cuba, for troops in Iraq, Shorties Watchin' Shorties, Verdict with Dan Abrams, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, and The World Stands Up. She has been featured at comedy festivals in Aspen, Edinburgh, and Montreal. She also appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever, the Today Show, White Boyz in Da Hood, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show, Fox & Friends and The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2009 Kilmartin released a CD, Five Minutes to Myself, consisting of material that she was not allowed to use on ai