Unhappy Hour Creators & Guests

Matt Bellassai is a comedian, writer, and host of the Unhappy Hour Podcast and web series To Be Honest.

Bari Finkel is the Head of Operations at Pineapple Street Media in Brooklyn, NY.

Producer of Mandela: The Lost Tapes (Audible) and Unsealed: Tylenol Murders (Chicago Tribune). Professor at NYU School of Journalism and Hunter College.

Ilana Michelle Rubin is a comedian and DJ.

Jon Lovett is a former presidential speechwriter, the founder of Crooked Media and currently hosts the podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It.

Trixie Mattel is a professional drag queen, singer, songwriter, comedian, and television personality.

Lindsey Weber is a freelance writer and editor.

Nico Tortorella is an actor and model.

Ashley Nicole Black is a comedian, actress, and writer.

Joel Kim Booster is an actor, comedian, and writer best known for his Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents special.

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress. She is known for portraying Britta Perry on the NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community.

Marie Faustin is a comedian and actress.

Erin Gibson is an expert at mixing social commentary, political satire and vagina jokes, into neat little comedy packages. Base in Los Angeles, she co-hosts & co-created "Throwing Shade" the award winning political absurdist comedy podcast and the live show & TV show by the same name.

Heben Nigatu is a writer and the co-hosts of Buzzfeed podcast Another Round. Previously she wrote for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Jerick Hoffer (born September 18, 1987), better known by the stage name Jinkx Monsoon, is an American drag performer, actor, comedian and singer who came to international attention by winning the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.Her first studio album, The Inevitable Album, was released in 2014, followed by her second studio album, The Ginger Snapped, in 2018. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed Monsoon 18th on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants.

Connor Franta is a YouTuber, author, artist, and businessman.

Ashley C. Ford is a writer, podcaster, and educator who deals with topics including race, sexuality and body image.

Actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer from Aurora, Colorado. He co-host a comedy pop-culture podcast, Las Culturistas. He also posts pop-culture lip-syncing videos on Twitter. Since September 2018, he has been on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live and was promoted to on-air cast for SNL's 45th season, in September 2019, becoming its first Chinese-American, third openly gay male, and fourth Asian American cast member.