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Stand-up · Storyteller · Author
Liz Miele
A New Jersey-born comic who wrote to George Carlin at 15, got a phone call back, and has spent more than two decades turning her anger, her cats and her therapy into four-minute stories.
From
Pennington, New Jersey
Stand-up since
Age 16, at the Comedy Cellar, New York
Known for
Self-produced specials Self Help Me, The Ghost of Academic Future, Murder Sheets and Space Camp · the book Why Cats Are A**holes
Interview
Hop For Pop · 2026 · watch on YouTube
“I’m okay with people seeing my flaws. And my flaws are what make me special.”
Liz Miele — Hop For Pop
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Biography
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Liz Miele is a stand-up comedian and writer from Pennington, New Jersey. She first performed at sixteen at the Comedy Cellar in New York and moved to the city at eighteen. At fifteen she wrote to the comedians she admired for advice, and George Carlin called her back. Their friendship lasted until his death eight years later.
She has self-produced a run of hour-long specials for YouTube, including Self Help Me, The Ghost of Academic Future, Murder Sheets and Space Camp, and has released albums heard on SiriusXM. She has appeared on Comedy Central, FOX, AXS TV, Hulu and NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me, and her book Why Cats Are A**holes was published in 2021.
She has toured London for about twelve years and performed in around 40 countries. Her material is personal, angry and story-led: therapy, her cats, CrossFit, heartbreak, and the gap between what she feels and what she is allowed to say.
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What you should know before you book her
Liz Miele is a written, story-driven comic who has spent two decades learning to let a room see her temper.
She tells stories, not one-liners
Her average bit runs about four minutes, and she will not cut herself down to suit an algorithm. “I have long stories that go somewhere.”
She shows the anger now
Early on she described her anger instead of performing it. Now the audience sees it: “I’m okay with people seeing my flaws.”
She controls the joke
“I control how you see me and I decide if I look stupid, right?” For her it is the difference between being laughed at and laughed with.
She travels well
She has performed in around 40 countries and toured London for over a decade. “Anybody can relate to heartbreak and anger and betrayal.”
She builds her own audience
She self-produces her specials for YouTube and plays rooms of 100 to 300 people. “You have to start out with 100 fans to make millions of fans.”
She looks after other comics
Carlin’s advice shaped how she treats younger comedians, and she helped organise comics’ response to the SiriusXM Raw Dog changes.
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Quotable
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“I’m okay with people seeing my flaws. And my flaws are what make me special.”02
“I control how you see me and I decide if I look stupid, right?”03
“I have long stories that go somewhere.”04
“Anybody can relate to heartbreak and anger and betrayal.”05
“I knew enough to know that any laugh was good and that it was gonna take time to grow and get better.”06
“My themes are almost a hundred percent the same.”07
“You walk in, you have some ideas. You don’t need anything.”08
“I want people to know what’s going on and then I want it to be as fun as possible to get there.”
Attribution: Liz Miele, speaking to Hop For Pop, 2026.
Career
Selected credits
Specials
- Space Camp — YouTube
- Murder Sheets — YouTube
- The Ghost of Academic Future
- Self Help Me
Television and radio
- Comedy Central
- FOX
- AXS TV
- Hulu
- NPR, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me
- Albums on SiriusXM
Writing
- Why Cats Are A**holes — book, 2021
This kit was produced by Hop For Pop. The interview and quotes are drawn from Hop For Pop × Liz Miele, recorded 2026. Liz Miele and their representatives are free to use any part of this document — the biography, the quotes — for booking, press and promotion, with credit to Hop For Pop for the interview material.
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