Sophie Kohn
Founder
Sophie Kohn is a longtime satire and humour writing instructor for Second City Toronto and Los Angeles, as well as a graduate of the conservatory program in sketch comedy and improv. Pre-pandemic, she performed stand-up comedy at local venues all over Toronto and produced a monthly show called Forever Jung where stand-up comedians did a set and then got analyzed by a therapist live on the stage.
Sophie was the founding editor of the CBC Comedy satirical website, which ran blissfully until 2018 and employed approximately half of the Canadian comedy community until CBC management got scared of its formidable power (i.e. leftist vibes) and hastily shut it down.
Sophie has also been a longtime writer for CBC Radio in Toronto, where she’s written for radio shows like q, Because News, GO! with Brent Bambury, and television shows like George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. Her humour writing has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and Reader’s Digest. One of those humour pieces, “If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear To God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth”, was turned into a short film voiced by Jon Hamm.
Her first children’s book, Katrina Hyena, about a laughing hyena who laughs at the wrong times, will be published with Owlkids in September 2024. Sophie lives in Nelson, British Columbia, with her partner and their son.