Biography!

Joselyn Hughes Joselyn Hughes is happy you’re here. She’d offer you a seat and a glass of iced tea, but last time she did that she poured it into her computer and had to buy a new one. You’re nice, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Joselyn is a stand-up comic, writer, improviser, actor and lover of small animals. When her high school sweetheart broke up with her because “she used too many weird voices and made ugly faces all the time,” she knew she was on to something. Her comedy career began the day she enrolled at the infamous Second City training center in Chicago, and since then she has trained at the Annoyance Theater, Act One Studios and the Acting Studio and most recently at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in New York City. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Before moving to New York, Joselyn co-founded SpitFire, an all-female stand up group as well as co-producing “Your Sunday Best,” a weekly comedy show featuring Chicago’s best stand up comics.

Joselyn is half of the comedy team “Macho!” with comedy partner Brooke Van Poppelen, and you can see their sketch and comedy shows from time to time when they are proactive enough to stop drinking cheap red wine and making jokes about farts.

You can also see Joselyn on VH1 discussing pop culture, hawking products on various commercials, on comedysmack.com, and hear her sometimes on Sirius satellite radio. In 2008 alone, she performed in the DC Comedyfest, the Hysterical Festival in NYC, was a featured comedian on Myspace Comedy and a nominee for Emerging Comic for the ECNY awards. In other words, she’s around, like a donut.

Joselyn performs all over doing stand up, improv and sketch, and will continue to do so despite all of her mother’s subtle references to the security and stability of an office job

You should hire her, or be a fan of hers, or write her very flattering e-mails. While she writes this, she’s making an ugly face, speaking in a British accent, holding a chinchilla and wondering why she’s talking to herself and writing in the third person.