Rosemary "Rosebud" Baker is an American comedian, actress, and writer.
17 Facts About Rosebud Baker
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Rosebud Baker became a writer for the HBO Max television series That Damn Michael Che in 2020 and a writer for Saturday Night Live in 2022.
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Rosebud Baker was born in Alexandria, Virginia to a wealthy and politically connected family, and grew up in McLean, Virginia.
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Rosebud Baker has three surviving younger sisters as well as one deceased sister.
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Rosebud Baker's father was mostly absent in her life and emotionally distant due to his work.
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Rosebud Baker attended Langley High School, where she received mostly poor grades and was briefly a cheerleader before getting suspended from the squad.
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Rosebud Baker received a Bachelor of Arts in acting at Emerson College in 2006, where she became severely alcoholic and depressed as a result of grief from the death of her sister, which she compared to "getting very old quickly".
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Rosebud Baker began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, which helped her to become sober in 2007.
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Rosebud Baker wrote horoscopes for Elite Daily as Rosey Baker.
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In 2010, Rosebud Baker appeared as a castmember on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, a Sundance Channel reality television series based on the lives of four gay men and their female best friends.
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In 2014, Rosebud Baker did stand-up for the first time during an open-mic night at a comedy club in Austin, Texas while on a cross-country road trip with a childhood friend.
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Early in her comedy career, Rosebud Baker performed four to five times a night at the LOL Comedy Club in Midtown Manhattan, frequenting open-mics at various comedy clubs around the city.
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Rosebud Baker appeared in the Roku Channel's Will Smith-helmed series This Joka in 2022.
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Rosebud Baker filmed half of it when she was 8 months pregnant and the other half one year after she had given birth to her daughter in October 2023.
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At the start of SNL's 50th season, Rosebud Baker, was named as a writer of its Weekend Update segment.
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Rosebud Baker's comedy has been described as dark comedy, and many of her jokes revolve around personal stories or anecdotes, such as the death of her sister or her domestic abuse at the hands of her alcoholic ex-boyfriend.
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Rosebud Baker learned how to write jokes after watching comedy specials by Dave Attell, Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle, and others, and transcribing the jokes to find the set up and the punchline.