Jo Firestone
Also Known As: Joanna Firestone, Joanne Firestone
Biography: Joanna Firestone was born in 1986 to Jewish parents Fred and Marilyn Firestone. Growing up as teenager, Jo would have cake baking competition with her friends including renowned pastry chef Claire Saffitz. She once won the competition with Box St. Louis butter vs. Claire’s $50 chocolate cake She has a brother, Ben Firestone, who works in commercial real estate. She grew up in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. She graduated from Clayton High School and later Wesleyan University in Connecticut, with a degree in theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Don't Think Twice
Overview: An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-22
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Good Timing with Jo Firestone
Overview: In this hilarious and heartwarming special, Jo Firestone teaches a comedy workshop for 16 senior citizens, leading up to their first live stand-up show.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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The Singles Retreat
Overview: Two old friends try to keep an open mind while attending a seniors-only singles retreat in the Poconos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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Save Yourselves!
Overview: A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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How Many Farts Measure a Life?
Overview: Rebecca loves seeing her social media stats on her phone, so she is thrilled when she gets to heaven and finds out she can focus on her life stats and nothing else. Forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-27
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Gold and Mud
Overview: A sprawling story of love and loss, as reflected on a single face. Tiny pieces that, when cobbled together, hint at a much larger picture. The larger picture being a woman’s life. Observed through the decades. Centuries, even. You know. A comedy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-23
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Vanilla
Overview: A freewheeling comedian determined to save her family business invites an uptight entrepreneur on a road trip to sell a van with a complicated history. Romance ignites on their three day trip south, but is tested as they discover each other's secrets. When the van sale deteriorates, they must decide if their very new connection is worth more than a very old van.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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To the Moon
Overview: A senile sportscaster by the name of Barth Pencil attempts to find an old love by reading his memoir to a bunch of little kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-24
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Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm
Overview: Everyone’s favorite rascals, the Aqua Teens, and everyone’s favorite perverted neighbor, Carl, split up then get back together to fight everyone’s favorite corporate overlord, Amazin, led by everyone’s favorite tech mogul, Neil, and his trusty scientist sidekick, Elmer.
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Matt Rogers: Have You Heard of Christmas?
Overview: Sharing stories tailor-made to get you in the spirit and performing an original set of soon-to-be-classic songs from a new Christmas album that no one asked for, Matt Rogers is the complete package. Featuring performances and comedy sketches with special guest stars, it’s a holiday tradition with ho, ho, ho for everyone.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-02
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The Hawkins Family Yule Log
Overview: A virtual fireplace burns on as a family gathering turns demonic
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-22
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Joe’s Pub Presents: A Holiday Special
Overview: Taping at the iconic Joe’s Pub inside the historic Public Theater in downtown Manhattan, Joe’s Pub Presents: A Holiday Special will feature a variety of holiday themed performances from acclaimed comics, singers and actors including Bridget Everett, Jo Firestone, Jen Kirkman, Nick Thune and many more. Funk and soul group THE DAP-KINGS will serve as the house band for the evening.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Observatory Blues
Overview: Fernando Music, a handless writer of erotic science-fiction, inadvertently predicts, in precise detail, our discovery of extraterrestrial life. This is the story of an expanding universe, in which all things grow apart, and in which Fernando still has no hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-10
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Cicada
Overview: Ben is a young bisexual man. He comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben's past crawls to the surface.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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Jo Firestone: Comedy Central Stand-up Presents
Overview: Comedy Central proudly presents comedian Jo Firestone in her first half-hour stand-up special
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Together Together
Overview: When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Rate the Cookie
Overview: A game show where Jo Firestone sets up a cookie tasting in a parking lot to try to make friends. Contestants must ultimately decide between a friendship and $50 cash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-14
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