Joel Kim Booster Stand Up

Join an evening with the one-and-only Joel Kim Booster. The writer and star of Fire Island brings his sharp, hilarious stand-up to the Tomorrow Theater for a special evening of comedy and conversation.

Joel Kim Booster is a Chicago-bred, Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and starring in Searchlight Pictures’ Fire Island, which, following its June 2022 release, went on to land him two Emmy nominations along with a “Best First Screenplay” nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards. The multi-hyphenate has also been seen starring opposite Maya Rudolph in the Apple TV+ comedy series Loot, which recently premiered its third season. He recently lent his voice to Sony Pictures Animation’s K-Pop Demon Hunters, one of the year's biggest animated hits, further showcasing his versatility as a performer. His first hour-long comedy special, Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, which explores his experiences and observations as a gay Asian American male, with commentary on identity, sexuality, cultural expectations, and more, debuted on Netflix in 2022. The special was nominated for a Critics Choice Award and named one of the best comedy specials of 2022 by Variety. He also appears in Freeform’s Chrissy and Dave Dine Out, which follows Chrissy Teigen and David Chang, who, along with Joel, cracked the restaurant scene wide open in Los Angeles. Joel can also be seen in a guest star role in the latest season of Industry (HBO) and will be in the Scrubs reboot for ABC. Joel is also the host of the Smartless podcast Bad Dates, where he invites his friends to share their most iconic dating fiascos.