Cathy Ladman

Cathy Ladman is an American stand-up comedian, television writer, and actress. She was featured in her own installment of HBO's "One Night Stand" comedy series, was a guest on "The Tonight Show" on nine occasions (1989-1992), and a guest on "The Late Late Show" on six occasions (2007-2015). She has had numerous supporting roles in films like "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" (1991), "My Fellow Americans" (1996), and "White Oleander" (2002), and two Mike Nichols films: "What Planet Are You From?" (2000) and "Charlie Wilson's War" (2007), as well as TV shows like "Roseanne", "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist", "Caroline in the City" (in a recurring role), "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Pretty Little Liars". She was one of the writers of "The King of Queens" episode "Ice Cubed". She won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-Up Comic in 1992.
Ladman's comedy is self-described as "self-probing, anxiety-venting vehicle" for "exposing personal neurosis".
In 2007, she was featured in the Off-Broadway production "J.A.P. - The Princesses of Comedy", which included live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Totie Fields, Jean Carroll, Pearl Williams, Betty Walker and Belle Barth.