Jamie Bethany Loftus is a writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator,

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her solo work, such as her one-woman shows ''I Lost My Virginity on August 15, 2010'' and ''Boss, Whom is Girl''. She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as

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, ''

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'', and Super Deluxe. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on ''

Robot Chicken ''Robot Chicken'' is an American adult animated stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. The writer ...

'' in 2020. Along with fellow comedian

Caitlin Durante Caitlin Durante (born May 17, 1986, in Pennsylvania) is an American writer, stand-up comedian, and podcast co-host based in Los Angeles. They are a scriptwriter and story analyst, with a master's degree in screen writing from Boston University. ...

, she co-hosts ''

The Bechdel Cast ''The Bechdel Cast'' is a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film. It is named after the Bechdel test. ''The Bechdel Cast'' is hosted by Los Angeles–based comedians Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus. In November 2016 ''The Be ...

'', a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film. She has also produced and hosted limited run podcasts for

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: ''My Year in Mensa'', ''Lolita Podcast'', ''Aack Cast,'' and ''Ghost Church''.

Career

Loftus's first job out of college was at ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

''. She was fired from the role when she tweeted after a standup set, “crushing so hard at an open mic that I cum bloods.” A local radio show referenced this as “the end of journalism.” Her often absurdist humor, sometimes bordering on performance art and documented for websites such as ''

'', has included pretending to date an

American Girl American Girl is an American line of dolls released on May 5, 1986, by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to fourteen-year-old boys and girls of a variety of ethnicities, faiths, and social classes from different time periods throughou ...

doll, joining

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as a joke, selling "

Shrek ''Shrek'' is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 book of the same name by William Steig. It is the first installment in the ''Shrek'' franchise. The film was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jen ...

nudes" with her body painted green to raise money for

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, and attempting to eat a copy of

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's ''

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''. She has written and performed several one-woman live shows. One is called ''I Lost My Virginity on August 15, 2010''. Another show, ''Boss, Whom is Girl'', was workshopped at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Los Angeles. It was then brought to the United Kingdom with shows in London and at the 2019

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. Its run at the Fringe was recommended by newspapers such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In April 2018, a three-part

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she wrote and starred in, ''Irrational Fears'' was released on Comedy Central Digital. In summer 2018, she was hired as a writer for the long-running

show ''

''. On January 1, 2020, Loftus released a four-part podcast entitled ''My Year in Mensa'' that chronicles the events surrounding her applying to join

for the purpose of writing a series of humorous articles for ''

''. On November 23, 2020, Loftus began releasing a new 10-part podcast entitled ''Lolita Podcast'' about the pop cultural imprint, misinterpretations, and adaptations of

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's novel ''

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''. On June 28, 2021, she began releasing another podcast series, this time about the comic ''

Cathy ''Cathy'' is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic follows Cathy, a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life—food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes ...

'', titled ''Aack Cast''. She is also a canvasser for the

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. In May 2023 a book written by Loftus entitled ''Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs'' will be published by Macmillan.

Credits

Live credits

* ''Death Wish'' – Writer/Performer/Director (2014) * ''Basketball City'' – Writer (2015) * ''Bad Art'' – Writer/Performer (2015) * ''I Lost My Virginity on August 15, 2010'' – Writer/Performer (2017) * ''The Hacker Who Codes'' – Writer/Performer (2018) * ''Boss, Whom is Girl'' – Writer/Performer (2019) * ''Jamie Loftus, Jamie Loftus'' – Writer/Performer (2020)

Film/Television credits

* ''Boston PD: Zamboni Crimes Division'' – Writer/Animator/Voice Actor (2016) * ''Rat Teens'' – Writer/Animator/Voice Actor (2017) * ''

Funny or Die Presents ''Funny or Die Presents'' is a half-hour sketch comedy show that spawned from the comedy website Funny or Die, created by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. It premiered on HBO on February 19, 2010. Creation Funny or Die Presents was created in June ...

'' – Actor (2017) * '' Super Deluxe'' – Writer/Actor (2017–18) * ''Irrational Fears'' – Writer/Actor (2018) * ''

'' – Writer/Voice Actor (2018-2021) * '' All About Nina'' – Comedy Consultant/Actor (2018) * '' Human Kind Of'' – Writer/Voice Actor (2018) * ''The New Negroes'' – Actor (2019) * '' Magical Girl Friendship Squad'' - Writer/Voice Actor (2020) *''Teenage Euthanasia -'' Writer (2021)

Limited Series Podcasts

* ''My Year in Mensa'' (2020) * ''Lolita Podcast'' (2020) * ''Aack Cast'' (2021) * ''Ghost Church'' (2022)

Bibliography

*''Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs'' (2023)

References

External links

*
The Bechdel Cast website
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