Kelsey Cook

Cook began performing stand-up comedy while in college.^[2] After graduating, she moved to Seattle and then to Los Angeles to pursue comedy full-time. In 2022, she taped her first special, The Hustler, which debuted on her YouTube channel and was later picked up by Hulu.^[3]

Her second special, Mark Your Territory, was released in February 2025. It was taped live at Comedy on State in Madison, Wisconsin and is available on YouTube and Hulu.^[1] The special covers themes of personal growth, heartbreak, and starting over after a divorce.^[4][5]

Cook made her late-night debut in March 2018 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she has since appeared multiple times as a featured stand-up comic.^[6] She also appeared on Comedy Central's storytelling series This Is Not Happening, in an online-only bonus segment for Season Four's episode 10 ("Shame").^[7] Cook has performed at the Moontower Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Austin—appearing at venues including The Hideout Theatre in April 2022^[8]—and appeared at the 2019 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.^[9]

Cook grew up in Spokane, Washington.^[10][11] Cook's mother, foosball champion Kathy Brainard, met her father, poet, trumpeter, and amateur foosball player Chris Cook, at a professional foosball competition. Cook graduated from Cheney High School.^[12]

Cook became engaged to comedian Kane Holloway in 2018; they married on July 11, 2019, and divorced in 2020 amid the COVID‑19 pandemic.^[13]

Cook has been in a relationship with comedian Chad Daniels since at least March 2023.^[14] They have been engaged as of February 2026.^[15]