Carlos Kotkin

Carlos Kotkin is an award-winning comedian, author and screenwriter who explores the everyday. The strange, the hilarious, the uncomfortably painful.


You know, life.

Carlos Kotkin's dating memoir of romantic misadventures was published by Penguin. His mother wrote the foreword.

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MODERN LOVE

We Didn't Have a Plan, but the Baby Did

My wife and I had been trying to have a baby for years. We had plans — elaborate, color-coded plans — and none of them included getting pregnant the way we finally did.

What followed was a crash course in love, panic, joy and the kind of humility you can only learn when a tiny person decides your schedule is no longer yours...

Screenplays

3x Moth grandSLAM winner
Christopher Award for screenwriting
San Francisco Comedy Competition Semi-Finalist
11x Moth storySLAM winner
First Person Arts story slam winner
Uncle Clyde's Soup-or-Bowl of Comedy winner
High School Valedictorian
Parents' Favorite Son
Only Child