A half-hour comedy special where comedians showcase fresh jokes, hilarious bits and shockingly personal stories in front of an audience inside the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York. On this week’s Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, River Butcher offers their thoughts on gender pronouns, people who put rubber testicles on their trucks, outrageously large fires, divorce, and much more.
River Butcher is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host. Butcher is best known for personal, observational comedy focused on their vegetarianism, feminism, love of baseball, and experiences as a queer person. Originally from Akron, Ohio, Butcher now resides in Los Angeles, California.
Butcher began their comedy career performing improv in Chicago at The Second City and has since performed stand-up at clubs including Zanies, the Jukebox, and Flappers, as well as Chicago Underground Comedy, The Hideout, The Lincoln Lodge, UCB, Cole’s, and Meltdown. They made their late-night debut on Conan in June 2016.
In the fall of 2014, they appeared alongside Cameron Esposito in a series of videos for BuzzFeed Motion Pictures titled “Ask a Lesbian”. Butcher and Esposito also co-hosted the web series “She Said” for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Network. The two wrote and starred together again in Take My Wife, on the comedy streaming service Seeso. Butcher also co-hosted the stand-up comedy podcast Put Your Hands Together with Cameron Esposito, which was recorded weekly in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles until it ended in July 2019.
Their first comedy album Butcher was released in August 2016 by the independent record label Kill Rock Stars. The set was performed at Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon. It debuted at number one on iTunes.
