Jena Friedman
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About
Comedian, actress, entertainer, artist, performer, and writer who is known for hosting the AMC+ series True Crime Story: Indefensible. She contributed to the screenplay of the 2020 film Borat 2. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. She was a writer on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Before Fame
She studied anthropology at Northwestern University. She worked as a healthcare consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton by day and performed stand-up at night.
Trivia
From the year 2012 to the year 2015, she was a producer on the popular Comedy Central-based television program known as The Daily Show. She left the show on the day Jon Stewart retired. She was a story editor on The Conners.
Family Life
In 2022, her mother died of pancreatic cancer. In her 2022 comedy special Ladykiller, she performed while pregnant with her first child.
Associated With
She played Daisy the bartender in the 2020 film Palm Springs which starred Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti.
