Rekha Shankar
January 1, 1970 (55 years old) in
Rekha Shankar is an executive story editor for Grand Crew (NBC) and for Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell's Digman! (Comedy Central). She was also a staff writer for Animaniacs (Hulu) and Head Writer for CollegeHumor's Hardly Working series. In 2020 she was selected for Just For Laughs: New Faces - Creators. She can be seen in Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Hacks, Aunty Donna’s House of Fun, and as Cupid in a Hershey’s commercial. She is also on stage every week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre LA. Other credits include The New Yorker, ClickHole, Reductress, Kal Penn Approves This Message, Slamdance, and being a national punner. One of her New Yorker pieces about how recipes have way too much backstory up top even went “viral.”
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Mountain Friends as
- 2025 · Maclunkey Treasure Island as Death Star Intercom / Intercom / Red Nine / Stormtrooper 1 / Stormtrooper 2 / Gold Five
- 2025 · Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad as Leah
- 2024 · The Candlenights 2024 Special as Self
- 2024 · Nobody Asked as Self - Host
- 2024 · Mustafar Takes Los Angeles as Yoda
- 2024 · Gastronauts as Self - Judge
- 2024 · Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson as Rekha Shankar
- 2024 · Smartypants as Self - Host
- 2024 · After Midnight as Self
- 2023 · Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! as Jeff
- 2022 · Phoning It In as Self
- 2022 · Dirty Laundry as Self - Guest
- 2021 · Hacks as Victoria
- 2020 · Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Neighbour
- 2020 · Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Woman At Fight / SWAT SWAT
- 2020 · Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun as Ginger
- 2020 · Erotic Clubhouse as Self - Host
- 2020 · Dimension 20's Adventuring Party as Self
- 2019 · Where in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati? as Self - Host
- 2019 · Ultramechatron Team Go! as Sarah / Crab Sarah (voice) / Puppet Sarah (voice)
- 2019 · Ultramechatron Team Go! as Sarah
- 2019 · Game Changer as Self - Contestant
- 2019 · Game Changer as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Game Changer as Self - Jury Member
- 2019 · Between Two Ferns: The Movie as Gaya
- 2019 · Gods of Food as Customer 1
- 2019 · Kingpin Katie as Rekha Shankar
- 2019 · Downbeat as Olivia
- 2019 · The Rank Room as Self
- 2019 · Total Forgiveness as Self
- 2019 · WTF 101 as Sloth (voice)
- 2018 · Erotic Book Club as Self - Host
- 2018 · Adventuring Academy as Self
- 2018 · Ultramechatron Team Go!: The Web Series as Sarah
- 2018 · Um, Actually... as Self - Contestant
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Hashley (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Aggmin (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Greta (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Womantis (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Tammy / Keena Left (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Mekena (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Camilla (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Mel (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Goblina (voice)
- 2018 · Cartoon Hell as Aggmin / Joan (voice)
- 2018 · Dimension 20 as Maggie
- 2018 · Dimension 20 as Daisy D’umpstaire
- 2018 · Dimension 20 as Katja Cleaver
- 2018 · Dimension 20 as Usha Rao / G13
- 2018 · The Rank Room: The Web Series as Self
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Maximillian Chungus
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Susanne Pershing
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Scrum Tooterscoots
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Potato
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Billabong Thorton
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Toronto's Onfire
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as P.P. Cocktail
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Felicity Almond
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Damp Probably
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Grizabella Grits
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Fish Tig (Shelby)
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Stuart Big
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Dung Beetle
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Mama New Here
- 2018 · Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Rekha Shankar
- Future · Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife as Vidhya
- Future · Best Friends Forever as