Hannah Berner
She treats the front row like an interrogation room for bad boyfriends.
2 specials · 2024–2026
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Hannah Berner walks the stage with the posture of a retired athlete and the urgency of someone with fresh gossip. She leans heavily on crowd work. She will single out a man in the front row, ask him a blunt question about his sex life, and wait. The comedy lives in the silence while the guy squirms. When she pivots to written material, she delivers it with the cadence of someone leaning across a table at a loud bar to share a secret.
Specials
On stage
She is a massive draw, filling theaters with young women who treat her shows like an organized night out.
Because her crowds usually follow her podcasts, they arrive pre-invested. They already know her life, her husband, and her friends. This lets her skip the usual introductory premises and jump straight into the dating stories. Her reliance on crowd interaction means a set depends entirely on the willingness of her audience to play along. When she finds a good target, usually a slightly defensive boyfriend, she dismantles him with a wide smile. The written bits sometimes take a backseat to the front-row interrogations, functioning more as connective tissue than as stand-alone jokes. She isn’t building a clockwork hour of standup. She is hosting a huge, loud party.
Before standup, she played Division I tennis at the University of Wisconsin and spent three seasons on Bravo’s Summer House. That specific cocktail of competitive sports and reality television explains exactly why she never looks panicked when a bit goes off the rails.
Turning points
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Named Variety 10 Comics to Watch
Variety selected Berner for its annual industry showcase, signaling her critical breakthrough as a rising standup performer.
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Debut Netflix Special Reaches Number Two
Berner released her first hour-long standup special We Ride at Dawn, which debuted at number two on the Netflix charts.
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Giggly Squad Wins Podcast of the Year
Berner and co-host Paige DeSorbo won the Podcast of the Year award at the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards.
At a glance
- Born
- , Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
- Style
- observational, crowd work, storytelling
- Breakout
- We Ride at Dawn
- Influences
- Chelsea Handler, Leanne Morgan
- Topics
- Elsewhere
- Website, Wikipedia, Instagram
Fans also like
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Nikki Glaser
Both comedians share a candid, raunchy style centered on frank and self-deprecating discussions of sex, dating, and female bodily functions.
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Des BishopBishop is Berner's husband and regular creative partner who co-hosts the call-in comedy podcast Berner Phone.
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Leanne Morgan
Berner specifically credited Morgan's breakout Netflix success as inspiration for proving the massive commercial appetite for female-driven standup comedy.
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Whitney CummingsCummings has publicly advocated for Berner's comedic style, which centers on accessible, female-oriented humor delivered without cruelty.
Podcasts
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Giggly Squad · co-host
Berner and Paige DeSorbo discuss pop culture, fashion trends, television, horoscopes, mental health, and dating while poking fun at themselves.
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Berner Phone · co-host
Berner and husband Des Bishop take listener voicemails to offer life, dating, and career advice.
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Berning in Hell · host
Also on screen
- Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year
- The Devil Wears Prada 2
- Not Suitable for Work
- Seasons 3–5
- Summer House
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- Bravo's Chat Room
A clip to start with
Hannah Berner - Abortions VS Gun Control