Kelly Pryce
Filtering family life through the aggressive gaze of a late-night club comic.
1 special · 2020
Get an email when there's a new special. You'll need a Google account.
Pryce takes the stage with the exasperated energy of a mother of four who finally got out of the house. She sets up a premise that sounds like standard domestic comedy—school drop-offs, husband complaints—and steers the punchline straight into the gutter. Her delivery is loud and unapologetic. When she hits a graphic detail about childbirth, she doesn’t lower her voice. She leans into the microphone and amplifies the grossness, daring the room to flinch at basic biology.
Specials
-
A blunt audio set about the unglamorous realities of motherhood.
Stand Up! Records · Album
On stage
She occupies a specific lane in the club circuit: the veteran who proves that material about marriage doesn’t have to be gentle. She operates comfortably in midnight lineups, frequently touring with Dave Attell and holding her own in rooms that reward pure aggression.
Her best material contrasts her physical reality with the expectations of Los Angeles. She gets massive laughs by simply pointing out that her forehead can still move, using her natural face to mock the heavily injected audiences sitting in the front row. She builds entire bits around the indignities of having children, treating pregnancy as a horror movie she survived. Occasionally, the raunch feels bolted onto a premise rather than organic to it, but the sheer force of her performance usually carries the joke.
Her pride in looking like a regular person traces back to growing up in a blue-collar Sacramento neighborhood. Before releasing albums like Life with a Pryce, she worked as a staff writer for George Lopez and hosted morning radio, which explains the tight, broadcast-ready rhythm of her setups.
Turning points
-
2010–2011
Staff Writer on Lopez Tonight
Pryce joined Lopez Tonight as a monologue and sketch writer, becoming one of only seven female writers working in American late-night television at the time.
-
Debut Album Life With a Pryce Release
Pryce released her debut stand-up album on Stand Up! Records, produced by Grammy winner Dan Schlissel.
At a glance
- On stage
- since 2003
- Style
- observational
- Breakout
- Life With a Pryce
- Influences
- Dave Attell, Rosie O'Donnell, Wanda Sykes, Judy Gold, Joan Rivers
- Topics
- Elsewhere
- Wikipedia
Fans also like
-
Dave Attell
Pryce frequently toured with Dave Attell and cites his unapologetic, adult comedic style as a key formative influence.
-
Judy GoldBoth comedians share an influence and label connection through Stand Up! Records, delivering fearless, adult material on parenting and family life.
-
Wanda SykesPryce identifies Sykes as an influence for her bold, candid comedic takes on family dynamics and daily life.
Also on screen
- 2010–2011
- Lopez Tonight
- NickMom Night Out
- Last Comic Standing
- What She Said
A clip to start with
Kelly Pryce - NickMom Night Out