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Claire Friedman is an Emmy-nominated writer who won a Peabody Award for her work on Saturday Night Live.

Claire Friedman is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer who won a Peabody Award for her work on Saturday Night Live and a Writers Guild Award for her work on Showtime's Desus & Mero. Her other credits include My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Star Trek: Very Short Treks, and Nick Cannon. She wrote and directed the Ambie and Webby-nominated Audible scripted comedy series, Trust Fall, which stars Colin Jost, Wanda Sykes, Neil Patrick Harris and Cecily Strong. Her most recent scripted Audible series, The Summer Oath, stars Maya Hawke, KJ Apa and Milly Alcock. Claire is a contributing humor writer for The New Yorker. She attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School.