Hi!
I am an Emmy-nominated, WGA Award-winning, Peabody Award-winning comedian, writer, cartoonist, and best-selling author.
Until recently, I was a writer/performer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where I famously couldn’t dunk a basketball. I am currently a cartoonist at The New Yorker, a performer with the Improvised Shakespeare Company, and a touring comic. On the road, I’ve played sold-out shows everywhere from iconic comedy venues like The Bell House to enormous performing arts centers like The Kennedy Center. If you’d like to see where I’ll be next, click HERE.
My award-winning short film, Accountabilibuddies, was an official selection at the Just For Laughs Film Festival in Vancouver, and I’ve had two pilots premiere at the New York Television Festival.
I developed my comedy chops in Chicago, where I performed with The Second City, the Chicago Just For Laughs Festival, iO, The Annoyance, and approximately one thousand bars.
On television, I have appeared on Comedy Central, CBS, Pop TV, and several national commercials. Before The Late Show, I was a staff writer for The Opposition with Jordan Klepper. I’ve also written humor for The New Yorker, The Onion Labs, and McSweeney’s.
Please keep scrolling, and thanks for being here. The 2018 Ron Perlman movie, Asher, totally tanked my search results, so arriving at this page is a genuine achievement.
Cartoons
My cartoons regularly appear in The New Yorker, Alta Journal, and Airmail. In 2026, I became the first-ever cartoonist-in-residence for Playboy. You can see all of my work on Instagram, but here’s a taste:
Videos
Here I am on The Late Show:
Here’s my reel:
I wrote and performed in this short, which premiered at Just For Laughs:
I lost my mind in quarantine and made this computer screen movie:
Writings
I’ve written humor pieces for places like The New Yorker and McSweeney’s.
Praise
“PERLMAN IS MEDDLING IN GOD’S DOMAIN.”
“My favorite cartoonist."
“…in my fantasy version of myself, I am Asher Perlman.”
“Asher Perlman makes your favorite comic’s favorite comics.”
“Asher Perlman belongs to the great American Tradition of the Deadpan.”
“Hilariously perceptive of life’s mundane tragedies.”
“At once hilarious and plaintive”
“[H]ilarious, fresh, and brilliant… I am in awe.”
“Asher Perlman can do in one frame what I need two hours and seventeen minutes to accomplish half as well! Insightful, human and hilarious.”
“[V]ery funny [and] keenly attuned to the inherent strangeness of existence.”
“Asher Perlman’s cartoons are the kind of funny that make you question what it is to be a person, but in a good way.”
“[L]augh-out-loud funny.”
“Asher Perlman’s comics are pure gold.”
“Asher Perlman is the James Joyce of cartooning.”
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