Jay Larson

Jason “Jay” Larson is an American comedian, actor and writer from Stoneham, Massachusetts. He studied English at Saint Anselm College, graduating in 1999, and moved to Los Angeles to write and act.

He started doing stand-up in Los Angeles in 2001, became a paid regular at The Comedy Store in 2004, and was one of the “New Faces” at the Montreal comedy festival the next year. TV sets followed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (from 2005), a Comedy Central half-hour (2011) and This Is Not Happening (2015). His story “Wrong Number” made the front page of Reddit and was featured on This American Life in 2016.

From 2012 to 2018 he co-hosted the storytelling podcast The CrabFeast with Ryan Sickler. He co-hosted two seasons of Esquire Network’s Best Bars in America, acted in the thriller The Invitation (2015) and played a limo driver in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). His albums are Self Diagnosed (2011), Human Math (2016) and Me Being Me (2018).