Ali Wentworth

Actor, Comedian and New York Times Best-Selling Author

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Gender: Female

Nationality: United States

Languages: English

Travels from: United States

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Actress, comedian, and author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Ali in Wonderland and Go Ask Ali, offering humorous insights into modern life.
Known for her role on In Living Color and creator of the Starz series Head Case, she has made numerous television appearances, including on The Tonight Show and Seinfeld.
Host of ABC’s The Parent Test, she engages audiences with her witty takes on parenting and life’s challenges.

Biography

Ali Wentworth shares humorous and endearing stories dissecting modern life, with signature wit and charm.

Ali Wentworth is an actress, comedian, author, and producer who brings a wealth of experience to all her endeavors. She is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Ali in Wonderland (HarperCollins, 2013), which takes a comedic look at poor advice from her mother; Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales (2015), which picks up where Ali in Wonderland left off, hilariously dissecting modern life while on a mission of self-improvement, and finally, Go Ask Ali (2018), which offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers tips and pointers on a host of life’s conundrums and sticky situations. In December 2022, Wentworth became the TV host of ABC’s “The Parent Test”, a show that hopes to spark a national conversation about how we’re raising our kids in this new age.

Wentworth first made a name for herself as a regular on three seasons of In Living Color and has appeared on television shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Seinfeld, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She was the creator, star, and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Starz series Head Case. Wentworth is the founder of BabyLove DC and is a devoted children’s advocate. Earnestly tying in her signature hilarity and charm, Wentworth covers various topics to suit your audience’s needs as she serves up personal anecdotes from a fascinating life and incredible career.

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Remarks by Ali Wentworth

A renowned actor, comedian and author of New York Times best seller Ali in Wonderland, The Huffington Post called Ali Wentworth, “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything.” Kirkus said of Wentworth, “she gracefully and elegantly bares embarrassing stories from her past and hilariously conveys the challenges of her marriage…with wit, the author may inspire others to simply enjoy the moment and not let themselves get in the way.”

Wentworth first made a name for herself as a regular on In Living Color. She has appeared on television shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Seinfeld and The Oprah Winfrey Show.She is also the creator, star and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Starz series Head Case. In this enlightening and entertaining session, Wentworth is able to cover topics from women’s issues, marriage and relationships, to wellness, family and parenting, and customize her presentation to suit the needs of your audience. Both humorous and endearing, Wentworth engages audience members by serving up personal anecdotes drawn from her fascinating life and incredible career.

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Ali was by far one of the best MC we’ve ever had for this event. She was funny and smart and you would have thought she had been deeply involved in the program before hitting the stage that morning.

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Ali Wentworth could not have been a nicer person to address our guests. She was hilarious, unpretentious, entertaining, sincere and energetic. Our crowd welcomed her wholeheartedly and she, clearly, was the type of friend you’d want sitting at your dinner table telling stories. Her skill at engaging the crowd was spot-on. With her charmed life of success and famous connections, there was not one drop of “Diva” in her presentation….she even drove herself to the event! She was the perfect antidote for the winter blues and a great change of pace from our history of inspirational, yet sometimes very sad stories shared by previous speakers. We could not have been happier with your highly recommended selection. Many of our guests said she “was our best ever!”

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Ali's Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration

Bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes. Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every tv show in existence to conquering TikTok to becoming a (semi) empty-nester, Ali experienced her share of turmoil (including an early case of Covid), but she also grew a little, learned a lot, and found comfort in some unexpected people and places. In Ali’s Well That Ends Well, Wentworth turns her gimlet eye to the year no one saw coming. With her signature irreverent style, she shares the most hysterical, absurd, and sometimes trying episodes that her family endured during the terrible global pandemic. Thoroughly relatable, absolutely charming, and filled with moments both hilarious and poignant, this terrific collection once again showcases the comedic genius of a beloved star who is “the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything” (Huffington Post).

Happily Ali After: An Other Fairly True Tales

The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes. Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander—and increasingly funnier—as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical importance. And thus begins her “Unhappiness Project.” It’s not long before Ali expands her self-improvement quest to include parenting, relationship, fitness (or lack thereof), and dieting advice. The results are painfully (at times literally) clear: when it comes to self-help, sometimes you should leave it to the professionals.

Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales

Mix 1 oz. Chelsea Handler, 1.5 oz. Nora Ephron, finish with a twist of Tina Fey, and you get Ali in Wonderland, the uproarious, revealing, and heartfelt memoir from acclaimed actress and comedian Ali Wentworth. Whether spilling secrets about her quintessentially WASPy upbringing (and her delicious rebellion against it), reminiscing about her Seinfeld “Schmoopie” days and her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or baring the details of starting a family alongside husband George Stephanopoulos, one thing is for sure—Ali has the unsurpassable humor and warmth of a born storyteller with a story to tell: the quirky, flavorful, surprising, and sometimes scandalous Ali in Wonderland.

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