The grinch smile
Saturday Night Live īayer joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on September 25, 2010. Bayer is the co-creator, co-executive producer, and star of the Showtime comedy I Love That for You, which premiered on May 1, 2022, and is loosely based on Bayer's life as a survivor of childhood leukemia. Starting in 2018, she had a recurring role on NBC's Will & Grace playing Amy, a former baker who loses her job because of Karen and subsequently works for Karen's baseball team. īayer appeared on ABC's Single Parents in 2019 in a recurring role as Mia Cooper, the ex-wife of Taran Killam's character. Bayer performed improvisational comedy at Chicago's ImprovOlympic, where she trained with SNL castmate Paul Brittain as well as the Annoyance Theatre and The Second City. She played the role of Kate Clark in the Chicago-based feature comedy Off the Cuff. She was part of the all-Jewish cast of The Second City's stage show Jewsical: The Musical, a musical that presented a comedic take on Jewish life and culture. Bayer stars as Janessa Slater, a media coach who helps famous musicians change their image.
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Career Īs of 2012, Bayer was collaborating with her brother Jonah on the web series Sound Advice for Above Average. While attending college, Bayer interned on the television shows Sesame Street and Late Night with Conan O'Brien and participated in the cast of Bloomers, an all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in communication and French. īayer is a 2000 graduate of Orange High School. "I don't know if it made me funnier, but it was so amazing, how it made everything be O.K.", she said. Bayer stated that while battling the disease, she discovered the meaning of comic relief.
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Īt age 15, she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). She has a brother, Jonah, who is a music journalist and the guitarist of the punk supergroup United Nations. She is the daughter of Carolyn and Todd Bayer.
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Bayer was born and raised in Orange, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.