Comedian Mo Welch Sets Premiere Date For Docu-Special ‘Dad Jokes’

Matt Grobar

22 May 2024 at 9:00 am·2-min read

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Mo Welch announced on Tuesday that her stand-up special/documentary hybrid Dad Jokes will premiere on YouTube via 800 Pound Gorilla on June 14th.

Filmed at the Lodge Room in Highland Park and all over Illinois, Welch’s debut special follows her as she explains her lifelong obsession with dad jokes as a way to process the aftermath of her own father’s abandonment. Welch travels to Illinois in search of her father while acerbically unpacking his absence in her life and what that has meant for her comedy and her journey as a new mother.

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Dad Jokes is written, performed, and co-directed by Welch, who is currently on tour opening for Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein and was previously on the road with Anthony Jeselnik and Chelsea Handler.

A stand-up comic and cartoonist originally from Normal, Illinois, Welch previously directed the Netflix comedy special If You Didn’t Want Me Then from Beth Stelling, with whom she recently launched the podcast, Sweethearts. Prior to that, she premiered her hybrid stand-up and animated show Mole at New York City’s Cherry Lane Theater in 2022.

A writer on Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik and Krapopolis on Fox, Welch has had script deals with Max, Amazon and FX and saw her Audible series Come Out, Come Out, featuring guests like Roxanne Gay and Mae Martin, debut in 2020. Her 10-part animated series Blair premiered on TBS Digital in January 2018. Selected to be part of the CBS Showcase in 2014 and 2024, she’s the author of How to Die Alone, which Workman Publishing put out in 2019, as well as comics that have been published in The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Vice, and more.

Welch is represented by UTA and Mosaic.

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