She began her career performing at
Second City in Chicago and the
Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. She also regularly contributed to
HuffPost, from 2012 to 2017. In 2011, she co-created the podcast
Throwing Shade with Bryan Safi. In 2013, the podcast became a
Funny or Die web series and stage show.
Throwing Shade was adapted into a TV series and on January 17, 2017 the first episode of ten was released on
TV Land. It was canceled after one season. The podcast version of
Throwing Shade continued after the TV cancelation and was renamed
Attitudes! in 2020. In 2018, she released a book of essays entitled "Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death". On September 8, 2023, all 10 episodes of the first season were released on Max, and the first episode premiered on Cartoon Network the next day. In 2025, Erin Gibson became the showrunner and executive producer of
The Chicken Sisters for the second season after being on the writing staff in the first season. == Nominations ==