Liz Zagone
Selling her worst life choices with relentless, unblinking optimism.
1 special · 2026
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Liz Zagone recounts her own massive mistakes with the bright, eager energy of someone pitching a multi-level marketing scheme. She will detail contracting a geriatric intestinal disease during a four-day Vegas romance, pausing only to make sure the room fully grasps the scale of her bad judgment. She uses no armor on stage. When she admits to dating awful men strictly because they were physically attractive, or breaks down a spectacularly bad hookup, she presents herself as both the casualty and the fully willing architect of the disaster.
Specials
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A sharp, unpolished hour of service-industry survival and family dysfunction.
YouTube
On stage
She belongs to a wave of comics using self-funded internet hours to bypass traditional gatekeepers. Building an early following online with videos about the daily miseries of bartending, Zagone translated that service-industry audience into reliable club crowds, playing to rooms who arrived for the restaurant complaints and stayed for the dating stories.
Zagone does not simply complain about bad dates. She dissects the exact moment she chose to ignore the warning signs. A story about a younger partner acting aggressively during sex pivots into a complaint about his failure to respect his elders, snapping the tension with an absurd concern for polite etiquette.
When she brings up her background, it is to contrast her family’s stability with her own mess. Growing up around Chicago with a trustworthy father, she explains to the crowd, is exactly what left her completely unprepared to navigate terrible men.
Turning points
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Enrolled in Stand Up at Second City
After an encouraging text from her younger brother, Zagone stepped out of her comfort zone in her late 20s to take a Stand Up 1 class at Second City Chicago, launching her comedy career.
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Debut Standup Special Sick Little Freak
Filmed and released her debut comedy special Sick Little Freak independently, which surpassed 100,000 views on YouTube.
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Pilot Premiere of Womb Room at SeriesFest
Co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in the comedy television pilot Womb Room, which premiered at SeriesFest.
At a glance
- Style
- storytelling, observational, physical comedy
- Breakout
- Sick Little Freak
- Topics
- Elsewhere
- Wikipedia, Instagram, YouTube
Fans also like
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Kristen Toomey
Both comedians emerged out of the Chicago standup scene, with Zagone specifically citing Toomey as a favorite peer she enjoys watching perform.
Also on screen
- Work Retreat
- Dhar Mann
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- Womb Room
A clip to start with
The Bad Influence Aunty (Liz Zagone)