Kristin Key in Jacksonville

A guitar is never far from Kristin Key on stage. Her comedy pokes fun at herself, gets loose and physical, and drops into song whenever a story needs one, with plenty of material about life as a lesbian comic.

Kristin came up in Amarillo, Texas, where she started doing stand-up at 19 as the house MC for the Amarillo Comedy Club. When that club closed in 2005, she moved to San Marcos to work the Austin scene. A few months later she auditioned for NBC's Last Comic Standing and became a finalist, then moved to Los Angeles. She later competed on NBC's Bring the Funny in 2019.

She is a regular on The Bob and Tom Show, has been heard on SiriusXM and has appeared on Comics Unleashed and VH1. Her Dry Bar Comedy special Crafty came out in 2019. Her first full length special, Lesbian Army, was filmed at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles and released by Comedy Dynamics in 2026. She has also recorded several stand-up albums and hosts the podcast Kristin Knows Blank.