Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri is a columnist for the Washington Post. Her satire has also appeared in McSweeneys and the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts and Murmurs, in other newspapers (hello, Salt Lake Tribune!), on the radio, and on TV.
She has appeared on a number of podcasts, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and Jeopardy! where she made what was described as the ‘worst final Jeopardy! wager of all time.’ She recently achieved her lifelong dream of being a talking head in a documentary about Benjamin Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president. He served between Grover Cleveland and Grover Cleveland. After his wife’s death, he married her niece. He did the most!
Unlike Benjamin Harrison, Alexandra was on Rolling Stone’s list of The Funniest People Right Now, Forbes 30 Under 30, received the National Press Club’s Angele Gingras award for humor writing, was a finalist for the 2022 Thurber Prize, and won a Shorty Award for her parody twitter account. She is also an O. Henry International pun-off champion — here is her winning routine about presidents.
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