writer/comedian/immigrant

ten things to know

1. Felipe Torres Medina is an award-winning humorist and writer based in New York City.

2. He loves writing the second part of that sentence, because he can’t really imagine living in a city without giant rats (real and inflatable)

3. He is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he’s written bits for his boss and also some celebrities who don’t know him.

4. His writing for The Late Show has earned him a WGA Award and a Peabody Award as well as five Emmy nominations.

5. His humor book, America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story (out March 2025) has earned some pretty cool reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. ORDER IT NOW! DO IT! I COMMAND YOU TO!

6. His work has appeared on The New Yorker, BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed Español, McSweeney's, Reductress, and CollegeHumor.

7. He trained as a writer and comedian at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and did many comedy shows in the basements of bars, grocery stores, and other places littered with fire hazards.

8. He is repped by Ethan Stern at 3Arts Entertainment and Andrea Blatt at WME.

9.  He once appeared on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, but in Colombia.

10. His millions are in Colombian pesos.