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Samantha Irby
American comedian and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samantha McKiver Irby (born February 13, 1980) is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer.[1][2] She is the creator and author of the blog bitches gotta eat, where she writes humorous observations about her own life and modern society more broadly.[3] Her books We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Wow, No Thank You. were both New York Times best-sellers. She is a recipient of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction.[4]
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She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including HBO's reboot of Sex and the City, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie.[5] In 2016, FX announced that it had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series.[6]