Shelby Fero

Shelby Ann Fero (born October 27, 1993) is an American writer and comedian.

Shelby Fero
Fero in 2012
Born	Shelby Ann Fero (1993-10-27) October 27, 1993 (age 32) Santa Clara, California, United States
Education	USC School of Cinematic Arts Menlo-Atherton High School
Notable work	Other Space Money from Strangers @midnight Chozen Robot Chicken
Comedy career
Years active	2010–present[1]
Medium	Stand up, television, video, Twitter
Genre	Observational comedy
Subjects	gender dynamics, female stereotypes, everyday life

Early life

Fero was born at Stanford Hospital on October 27, 1993.^[2] After graduating from Menlo-Atherton High School, she attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts before leaving to pursue a career in comedy.^[3]

Career

Shelby Fero is an American comedian best known for her popular tweets.^[4][5] She has written for Cracked^[1] and HelloGiggles.^[6] Fero has done stand-up at Magic Bag (Eliza Skinner's and DC Pierson's stand-up showcase in Los Angeles).^[6][7] She appeared on a live version of WTF with Marc Maron, and have been a panelist several times on National Public Radio's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me show. She played Denise (mispronounced as Dee-nice) in Key & Peele's viral "Substitute Teacher" sketch.^[8] In 2016, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program.^[9]

As of 2025 Fero is working primarily as an all-occasion photographer in the Bay Area.^[10]

Filmography

Film

• 2013 Froyo Robbery (Short)
• 2014 DeAndre Jordan's Amazing Charles Barkley Impression (Short)
• 2014 The Live Read of Space Jam with Blake Griffin (Short)

Television

• Other Space
• Money from Strangers
• @midnight
• Chozen
• Robot Chicken
• Brad Neely's Harg Nallin Sclopio Peepio
• Disney's 3x5 Live
• Idiotest Season 3, episode 18 (2016)
• Loiter Squad Season 3

See also

• List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2016)
• List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2014)
• Hey Girl (TV series)
• List of WTF with Marc Maron episodes