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Kat Timpf is a television personality, comedian, New York Times bestselling author, and keynote speaker known for bringing humor, candor, and clarity to some of the hardest conversations in modern life. As a co-host of Fox News’ Gutfeld!, she engages millions of viewers with commentary that is sharp, relatable, and grounded in real-world experience.
She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together and I Used to Like You Until… (How Binary Thinking Divides Us). Across her books, television work, and live appearances, Kat explores modern culture, free expression, communication, and the challenge of staying human in a world that rewards outrage, oversimplification, and performative certainty.
But Kat’s perspective is not only cultural—it is also deeply personal. She speaks candidly about adversity, public scrutiny, women’s health, motherhood, and the identity shifts that come with navigating life under pressure. What makes her distinctive onstage is her ability to connect big cultural conversations with private human ones, using humor not to avoid difficulty, but to move through it with more honesty and perspective.
With a background in journalism and commentary, Kat has contributed to outlets including The Washington Times, National Review, Campus Reform, and Barstool Sports. She brings a rare combination of media fluency, comedic timing, and hard-won personal insight to the stage—helping audiences think more clearly, communicate more honestly, and keep their sense of humor when the stakes feel high.
Kat lives in New York with her husband, Cam, their son, their dog Carl, and her cat Cheens.
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Featured Keynote Programs
We Need to Talk
Using Humor to Have the Hard Conversations
Whether it’s at home, at work, or in public life, difficult conversations are unavoidable. Kat shows how humor, curiosity, and self-awareness can make those conversations more honest, less hostile, and far more productive. Audiences leave with practical strategies for communicating across differences, de-escalating tension, and staying connected even when disagreement runs deep.
You Can’t Joke About That
Finding Perspective in a High-Stakes World
Based on her bestselling book, Kat explores how humor and perspective can help people navigate criticism, conflict, and pressure without losing themselves in the process. Drawing on her career in television and media, she offers a fresh take on communication, self-awareness, and how to keep high-stakes moments from becoming defining ones.
Laughing in the Waiting Room
Humor, Health, and the Hardest Seasons of Life
In this deeply personal keynote, Kat speaks candidly about health scares, uncertainty, identity shifts, and the strange role humor can play when life gets scary. With honesty and wit, she offers audiences a moving perspective on resilience, self-advocacy, and how to stay human in the middle of fear, pain, and change.
Uncancelled
How to Build a Culture Where People Can Actually Talk
In an era of performative outrage, fear of saying the wrong thing, and constant online judgment, honest communication can feel risky. Kat unpacks what shuts people down and what leaders, teams, and communities can do to create more candid, resilient conversations—without sacrificing accountability, standards, or respect.
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Featured Books
You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
by Kat Timpf
What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life?
In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public.
In You Can’t Joke About That, Kat Timpf shows why much of the way we talk about sensitive subjects is wrong. We’ve created all the wrong rules. We push ourselves into unnecessary conflicts when we should feel like we’re all in this together. When someone says “you can’t joke about that,” what they really mean is “this is a subject that makes people sad or angry.”
Hilariously and movingly, Timpf argues that those subjects are actually the most important to joke about. She shows us we can find healing through humor regarding things you probably don't want to bring up in polite conversation, like traumatic break-ups, cancer, being broke, Dave Chappelle, rape jokes, aging, ostomy bags, religion, body image, dead moms, religion, the lab leak theory, transgender swimmers, gushing wounds, campus censorship, and bad Christmas presents.
This book is Kat Timpf with her hair down, except since hers is mostly extensions, this book is Kat Timpf with her hair out. Read it because you want to get to know her better. Read it because it’s the best book on free speech and comedy in a generation. Read it because you want to laugh out loud… even at the kind of stuff we’re afraid to say out loud. Just read it, and you’ll be glad you did.
I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us)
by Kat Timpf
A “whip-smart” (USA TODAY) exploration of the dangers of binary thinking and how it threatens to take over our institutions, relationships, and freedoms—alongside hilarious and illustrative personal stories from New York Times bestselling author Kat Timpf.
We’ve become a society of non-thinkers. After all, we’ve largely limited ourselves to just two options when it comes to complex issues. As an independent, libertarian voter who has spent the last ten years at Fox News, Kat has faced this phenomenon too many times to count. She’s learned that surprising things can happen when you refuse to choose a team, especially when you work at a place some people call an existential threat to America.
Binary thinking is much more than just the enemy of critical thinking, it’s also an immediate danger to our political discourse, our institutions, our way of consuming news, our relationships, our creativity, and even to our freedoms. All too often, we will let a single difference in viewpoint, an assumption, or an association be enough to write off another person entirely. We miss out on opportunities to connect and collaborate, all while the people in power benefit from our division.
Through humorous examples from her own life and insight only someone in her bizarre position can possess, Kat reminds us that the world doesn’t have to be so black and white. In her signature witty voice, Kat inspires us to lean into thoughtful consideration, genuine conversation, vulnerability, and only hating people when they really deserve it.
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