Bonnie McFarlane

Bonnie McFarlane is a Canadian-American stand-up comedian, writer, and director born March 28, 1969, in Cold Lake, Alberta. Raised on a rural farm as the youngest of four daughters, she won "The Search for Canada's Funniest New Comic" at her earliest open mics in Vancouver before moving to New York. She appeared on Season 2 of NBC's Last Comic Standing (2004), taped an HBO One Night Stand special (2005), and a Comedy Central Presents half-hour (2008). A regular panelist on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn alongside Jim Norton, Patrice O'Neal, and Keith Robinson, McFarlane was also a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony show and later the Opie and Jim Norton show, deeply embedded in that comedy ecosystem through her marriage to Rich Vos — with Jim Norton serving as Best Man at their 2005 wedding. She wrote and directed the documentary Women Aren't Funny (2014), featuring Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Patrice O'Neal, Jim Norton, Bobby Kelly, Artie Lange, and Lisa Lampanelli. Her memoir You're Better Than Me was published in 2016 under Anthony Bourdain's imprint at HarperCollins. She directed the short film Anything Boys Can Do (2018) starring Nikki Glaser and Tim Dillon, appeared in Judd Apatow's The King of Staten Island (2020) alongside Rich Vos, and was featured in the FX documentary Hysterical (2021) on women in stand-up. In 2025, she served as a writer

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