Name Sara Benincasa Role Comedian | Education Emerson College Genres Comedic genres | |
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Nationality United States of American Notable works and roles MTV's 2008 Think campaign
Get in Bed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Similar People James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander, Margaret Cho Profiles | ||
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Sara Benincasa (born October 25, 1980) is an American comedian and author.
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- Dc trip book trailer by sara benincasa out november 3rd
- Depression Anxiety and What I Would Tell MyYoungerSelf Sara Benincasa
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- References
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Early life
Benincasa has a degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has an M.A. in Secondary School Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. After graduation she taught with Americorps in Texas.
Career
She was a citizen journalist for MTV covering the 2008 United States presidential election as part of MTV's 2008 Emmy Award-winning Think campaign.
Benincasa co-hosted the Cosmo Radio sex/relationship talk show Get in Bed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio until September 2010, when Sirius XM reduced the channel's programming schedule and let go several of the channel's hosts. She then started a podcast with Marcus Parks called "Sex and Other Human Activities" which features a sex questions segment (using questions sent via email and Formspring) that launched in February 2011. The September 19, 2012, episode, entitled "End of an Era," is described as "Sara's final show on the old SAOHA."
Benincasa was featured on Nerve.com's BlogALog as a comedic blogger. Her last post on the SJ1000 blog was April 1, 2008, in which she suggested that followers missing her internet presence go to her official website, her Myspace page, her MTV Think profile, or her blog. Along with her blog, Benincasa filmed a series of interviews titled Tub Talk with Sara B. The series featured Benincasa in a bathtub with various comedic personalities, including Reggie Watts, Jonathan Ames, and Andy Borowitz. Benincasa has since revamped the web series on her YouTube account as Gettin' Wet with Sara Benincasa. Interviewees include Margaret Cho, Donald Glover, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and James Urbaniak.
In September 2008 she began producing a vlog in which she parodies the role of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. She is particularly attentive to Palin's Midwestern accent. These vlogs were uploaded to Benincasa's YouTube profile, until a partnership with Huffington Post's humor site 23/6 was established and the vlogs were moved to the twentythreesix YouTube page.
In 2009, Benincasa developed a one-woman show about her experiences with agoraphobia and panic attacks. She has since sold the literary rights to Agorafabulous! to William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins.
Benincasa has contributed to the website Jezebel.
Personal life
Benincasa lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.