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Jason Sáenz is a comedian who grew up in Virginia, began performing improv in D.C., and became a fixture in New York City’s comedy scene — where he wrote for a house sketch team at the Upright Citizens Brigade, performed stand-up, and went viral for his “Saenz Signs” —  which eventually got him New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, and a ticket to Los Angeles to work on the MTV show, Ridiculousness. But that was just the tip of the ridiculous iceberg for Saenz, who got a job handling the personal social media accounts of Steve Harvey, met a young woman, fell in love, and then fell through a skylight on the roof of his apartment building, leaving him a paraplegic. As they used to say in the intro to MTV’s The Real World: True story! And true to his story, Jason is now ready to talk about all of it. Both onstage, where his new show “The Wheel World” enjoyed two sold-out performances at the Lyric Hyperion in January 2024, and right here on my podcast. There’s a lot to get to, so let’s get to it!

Here’s a look at his reel, which includes scenes from Netflix’s The G Word with Adam Conover, Comedy Central’s Corporate, plus a bit for Columbia Sportswear, all of which he’s booked since his accident.

This video he shot for Funny or Die is funny in retrospect, as Saenz worked for Steve Harvey and cleverly works the Feud into his stage show, “The Wheel World.”

And here’s the first episode in the two-season webseries Saenz made for Comedy Central in 2017 called Ya Killin’ Me, starring Nick Turner as a patient awakening from a coma only to realize how much has changed while he was out of it, and Saenz as the doctor, with new guests in each episode.

And if that has you yearning to go back in time, here’s way back when Saenz Signs was popping off, and he explained himself to Tom Shillue on FOX News’s Red Eye:

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