Clare O’Kane is an actor, comedian writer and director from San Jose, California. She has performed in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Outside Lands, and has opened for the band Jawbreaker on their most recent reunion tour. Clare has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Shrill, Saturday Night Live, appeared on Comedy Central (dot com) and was the pseudo-host of Viceland's Flophouse.

 

In 2022 Clare was deemed a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture and was recently featured on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Clare is frequently cast in short films and usually paid in hummus.

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Currently,  she co-hosts the stand-up show SOLID with her nice friend Joe Kwaczala at the Upright Citizens Brigade in LA every Tuesday night. She also co-hosts the podcast Quorators with comics Jeremy Kaplowitz and Alex Ptak.

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When she’s not sneezing, Clare enjoys traveling around to do stand-up, eating poorly, directing music videos for friends and noodling on the guitar. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her tall husband and medium dog.