Carol Leifer
Comedian, TV Writer
1956 –
Who is Carol Leifer?
Carol Leifer is an American comedian, writer, producer and actress whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when she was in college. David Letterman discovered her performing in a comedy club in the 1980s and she has since been a guest on Late Night with David Letterman over twenty-five times as well as numerous other shows and venues. She has written many television scripts including for The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, and most notably, Seinfeld.
Leifer's "inner monologue" observational style is often autobiographical encompassing subjects about her Jewish ancestry and upbringing, coming out, same-sex marriage, relationships and parenting.
Leifer has become vegan, saying "I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn’t part of a small enough minority. So now I’m a Jewish lesbian vegan."
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- Born
- Jul 27, 1956
East Williston - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lori Wolf
(2002 - ) - Ritch Shydner
(1981 - 1987)
- Lori Wolf
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Queens College, City University of New York
- Binghamton University
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on July 23, 2013
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