Kira Soltanovich
- Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, actress and writer best known for her correspondent work on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for almost 9 years. She was the Phony Photo Booth, which turned into the show's longest running comedy piece. (that didn't have Jay in it)
Kira has a half hour stand up special on Showtime called Here Comes Trouble and a one hour stand up special on Amazon called You Did This To Me. She's the sidekick to host Donald Faison on the Netflix game show, Winsanity, and she's been a recurring comedian on several FOX television shows: Punchline and The Drama. Kira was a series regular on two seasons of TruTV's How To Be A Grownup, and also shot two seasons of the Facebook series The Turndown which was shot exclusively in a bed.
She's currently a stand up comic on Lights Out with David Spade on Comedy Central, but many of her fans remember her from the hidden camera show, Girls Behaving Badly, where she was a series regular for 4 seasons. Kira has been featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Nickelodeon, the Disney network and one of her most unique claims to fame is when Hell's Kitchen made her the "prize" for the winning team of chefs who got a night out at The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip.
Kira has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal several times and was the 2018 winner of the Big Sky Comedy Festival in Montana. Still, one of her greatest achievements in showbiz was writing jokes for Joan Rivers on the television series How'd You Get So Rich? on TV Land.
Currently, Kira is working on writing and producing her own talk show that takes place inside of a sauna. It's called Let's Get Sweat! and she interviews celebrity comedians fully naked inside a blazing hot sauna. Kira is also gearing up to record a new one hour comedy album with the label 800 Pound Gorilla Records.