We make funny things for nice people.
We create and develop comedic content and engaging events through the scope of intelligent and absurdist humor. We are creative partners with smart organizations and use comedy as a tool to connect, while still inspiring a spirit of fun and irreverence.
Co-founded by long-time collaborators Julie Smith Clem and Eugene Mirman, Pretty Good Friends started as a weekly comedy/variety show in 2006 and evolved into a comedy company that produces television, film, podcasts & more. Currently the creative team is a little like Fleetwood Mac, but with less dysfunction.
Our first feature-length documentary film It Started As A Joke premiered at SXSW in 2019. Our new podcast Parenting is a Joke with Ophira Eisenberg is currently distributed by iHeartPodcasts. In 2022 we launched a new comedy label called PGF Records with our friends at Sub Pop Records.
WE’VE WORKED WITH:
WHAT WE DO:
Film, TV, Video
Records + Podcasts
Live Shows + Events
PRETTY GOOD PEOPLE
Julie Smith Clem
Executive Producer / Co-Founder
Julie is a Producer/Director/Writer and the co-founder of Pretty Good Friends. Julie has Executive Produced TV series for Comedy Central, Science Channel and IFC, co-created the Peabody Award-winning video series for The Onion. Her directorial debut It Started As A Joke premiered at SXSW in 2019. She was voted the Bay Area's top hot dog vendor in 2001.
Eugene Mirman
Comedian / Co-Founder
Eugene is a comedian and hero. He voices “Gene” on Fox’s hit animated series Bob’s Burgers. He was a regular on Flight of the Conchords, Adult Swim’s Delocated, and has two Comedy Central Specials. He has also appeared on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, the Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and more.
Areti Papazoglou
Business + Operations
Areti is a recovering attorney based in NYC putting her talents to helping make funny things with Pretty Good Friends. She was previously a Director of Legal and Business Affairs at Madison Square Garden, and before that worked in production for ABC, Paramount Pictures, and NBC Sports. She is now relieved to balance her creative side with her management of contracts, spreadsheets and other documents comedians love.
Therese Plaehn–Mirman
Writing + Development
Therese is an actor/writer/teacher. She helps write, develop, and find talent for Pretty Good Friends. She has acted on/off Broadway, in TV & Film, and abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe. After reading an article in The Guardian on “super recognizers,” she took a “Face Test” with a university in Australia and scored in the top 1%. So if she remembers you from her many years of Brooklyn bartending, don't be frightened, it’s just her gift.
Melissa Weiss
Video Editor
Melissa is an editor, producer, and aspiring amateur rock climber. Her television editing credits include Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News, and Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground. She has produced and edited several short films and co-produced two stage shows for the New York International Fringe Festival. In 1995, she won second-place in a wheelbarrow race.
Rachel Harris
Designer
Rachel works by day as a graphic designer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and holds a MFA in graphic design from RISD. Before joining HKS, worked at Fathom, a Boston-based information design studio. She also worked as a graphic designer for St. Louis Magazine and the Yale School of Drama. She loves making things, operating primarily in the world of graphic design, illustration, and motion. Rachel has done work for a wide range of clients, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, General Electric, Amazon, and the Girl Scouts.
Chet Clem
Strategy + Development
Chet is a writer and strategy consultant for start-ups and small businesses. He was once the editorial manager at The Onion, where he oversaw the development of two best-selling books: Our Dumb World and Our Front Pages. He moonlights with Pretty Good Friends on occasion.