Nikki Palumbo is a non-binary writer and comedian in Los Angeles, but still reeks of New Jersey.

Nikki’s writing has appeared on The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Funny or Die, Reductress, the Google Assistant, Barbie’s Webby-nominated TikTok, and their folks’ fridge. Most recently, Nikki wrote for the WGA Award-nominated Tiny Time Travel (PBS Kids) and AI (Google Gemini, MasterClass). They’re very sorry about that.

In 2025-2026, they’ve been selected as a fellow for Film Independent’s Project Involve, WIF, and the Yes, And Laughter Lab. They also participated in The Black List x WIF Episodic Lab in 2025.

In 2022, Nikki won the ATX TV Festival Pitch Competition with their queer mob comedy pilot Lil Italy and was selected as an inaugural member of the Climate Comedy Cohort.

Nikki wrote for the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, hosted by Nikki Glaser, and worked as a story producer on the YouTube Originals weekly music show, RELEASED in 2020.

Nikki previously co-hosted the podcast Social Cues, still available wherever you want, and the monthly-ish standup show Queer Tiger Beat, recommended by The New York Times and featured in Time Out. They have performed at the YaaasFest Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, Austin Sketch Festival, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where they were also a teacher, director, and writer (Maude Night, The Queerball Sketch Show, Dyke Power(point), and This Show Passes the Bechdel Test).

Somehow, Nikki is on TikTok and has a newsletter, Eventually This’ll Be Funny.