Podcasts like The Katie Halper Show

Katherine Rose Halper (born July 11, 1980/1981) is an American comedian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and political commentator. She is the host of The Katie Halper Show on WBAI and co-host of the Useful Idiots podcast with Matt Taibbi.

Halper was born and raised in New York City's Upper West Side, on Riverside Drive. She graduated from the Dalton School, and from Wesleyan University in 2003. She is Jewish, but considers herself secular. Her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is an English professor and novelist.

After graduation from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and Florida. Halper has also taught history at her alma mater, the Dalton School.