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Carlos Kotkin performing stand-up comedy in a gray hoodie in front of a curtain with string lights

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 performing stand-up comedy on stage at The Mirage in Las Vegas opening for Gabriel Iglesias

Carlos Kotkin's dating memoir of romantic misadventures was published by Penguin. The title is racier than the book itself. His mother wrote the foreword.

Please God Let It Be Herpes book cover with a rooster, by Carlos Kotkin
Publishers Weekly review: Comedy Central regular Kotkin shares just the right amount of detail from his lifelong pursuit of a wife to make his first book a charming read. The author admits he's survived a blundering and arduous journey of romantic misadventures.
Illustration of a man in a striped shirt drinking from a cup while sitting on a bench next to a stork holding a bundle The New York Times
MODERN LOVE

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

by Carlos Kotkin

About a year into our marriage, my wife and I decided we were ready for the adventure of having a child. Despite our best efforts, it wasn't happening. We didn't know why. One night as we were watching television, my wife turned to me and said, 'I think you're the problem."

Opening paragraph from a Modern Love essay published in The New York Times

Screenplays

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3x Moth grandSLAM winner
11x Moth StorySLAM winner
Christopher Award for screenwriting
Winner — First Person Arts Story Slam
Semi-Finalist — San Francisco Comedy Competition
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