
CHANDLER DEAN
Comedian and Speechwriter
Chandler Dean is a comedian and speechwriter who created, hosts, and executive produces the comedy debate show Abolish Everything! on Nebula—taped in front of a live audience every month at Caveat.
He also leads the humor practice at West Wing Writers, performs on UCB's Harold Night with the team FKA Deb, and hosts the recurring satire and humor reading series Some Fun Lines.
His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, McSweeney's, Reductress, and Hard Drive. He is the author of the speechwriting advice column How to Write Every Speech You'll Ever Need to Give in Your Life, and in 2022, he wrote two of the top ten most-read McSweeney's articles of the year.
He was previously a Monologue Writer for Lovett or Leave It, and has also worked for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. ​