Fortune Feimster Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Peace College in North Carolina
• Began taking improv and sketch comedy classes at the Groundlings Theatre in 2005, eventually being invited to join the Sunday Company and beginning her career as a stand-up comedian
• Was working as a personal assistant before being hired as an entertainment journalist for Beck/Smith
• Quote: "(On Chelsea Handler): "It feels like the godfather has told everybody to like this person․ It makes my life so much easier to have that support from her․""
• Best known as a writer and cast member of "Chelsea Lately" and "After Lately․"
• After college she spent a year teaching English in Sevilla, Spain and backpacking across Europe
• Was a semi-finalist on the comedy competition series "Last Comic Standing․"