Jess Salomon is a New York based Canadian stand-up comic and writer, who has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Jess handles dark, sometimes dirty and often political topics with a light touch. Her style is to approach the political from a personal point of view or experience. She is after all in a Jewish-Muslim-Palestinian-Canadian-Lesbian marriage with – it gets worse – another comedian. Did you just gasp? So did their families. 

As a stand-up comic Jess has performed multiple times at Just for Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, as well as various American festivals, including the New York Comedy Festival where she recorded her debut album, “All the Best Choices” with label, 800 Pound Gorilla. In Canada, Jess has taped several comedy sets for television that have aired on CBC and in French on Radio Canada. In 2019 Jess recorded a full length special with her wife called “Marriage of Convenience” that is available on Crave. 

As a writer, Jess has worked on “Baroness Von Sketch” (IFC/CBC) and CTV’s “The Beaverton”. She’s been published in the Montreal Gazette, Vice, and Haaretz amongst others and was most recently a writer and co-host of the BBC World Service podcast and radio show “Comedians vs The News”.

In a past life, Jess was a war crimes lawyer with the United Nations. That is, until she decided it was time to get serious. The jury is still out on whether this was a good idea.