Jim Gerard is an author, journalist, playwright, and stand-up comic. He has written humor for The New Republic, Travel & Leisure, Playboy, Maxim, and Cosmopolitan; features for the Washington Post, Salon, Details, New York Observer, and many other magazines; and has published fiction in the Boston Review and elsewhere. He has performed stand-up comedy in New York clubs such as The Comic Strip, the Duplex, and the Village Gate.