Justin Cousson is a comedian, writer, illustrator, performer and comedy producer of indeterminate ethnicity and unkempt hair. He started performing in Washington, DC and Baltimore as a teenager before a move to Los Angeles, where he hosted and produced AN SHO(w) and It's On with Justin Cousson at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
As a comedian, he’s been seen at clubs with Reggie Watts and Judah Friedlander, and hosted for Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Demetri Martin, Todd Glass, and Iliza Shlesinger, to name a few, and in 2019, created and directed the world’s first digital interactive choose-your-own-adventure-style stand-up show.
As an illustrator, his work exists in the collections of thousands of fans, and his trading card artwork notably includes the 2024 Leaf Metallic Imaginations Shohei Ohtani “Ohtaniwood” trading card, which sold out its entire print run within five minutes.
In Billboard Magazine, Reggie Watts praised Cousson as someone who excites him in comedy, and professed his love for the "shoddy, abstract comedy" of him and his previous live production, the AN SHO(w) Stand-Up Comedy (House) Party. His work has also been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Mashable, Deadspin, HelloGiggles, Buzzfeed and Cosmopolitan, as well as covered internationally in England, Japan, Germany and Australia.
His fictional podcasts include the Nodcast (Bobblehead talk), the Codcast (Atlantic fish talk), the Sodcast (turf and soil reviews) and the Rimbaudcast (mispronouncing 19th-century French poets' names).
Outside of comedy and art, he loves the Baltimore Orioles, baking inventive vegan banana breads, Mister Ed, baseball cards, vinyl records, autographs, puppets, pupusas, and his tabby cat, Tito.
His feud with James Blunt is on hiatus due to Blunt getting scurvy, and as of 2020, Justin still cannot play the piano.
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