Education
She and her sister were raised Catholic and attended private, Catholic schools.
She and her sister were raised Catholic and attended private, Catholic schools.
Born and educated in California, she is best known for her appearances on the East! series Chelsea Lately. She was one of the eight writers on the show and often participated in sketches and segments. McDonald also appeared in the show"s spin-off, After Lately.
Her first book, a 2010 memoir of her college years, made the Bestseller List of the New York Times.
She is of three quarters Irish and one quarter French-Canadian descent. After graduating from University of Southern California, McDonald began to take theatre classes at The Groundlings.
During her time there, McDonald performed improvisational shows and sketch comedy at the Groundlings Theatre. McDonald is married to Peter Dobias, an investment banker.
The couple has two children, and Dobias has a daughter from a previous relationship.
In the late 1990s, McDonald began writing with Kenan Ivory Wayans. In 2001 and 2002, she was a writer and performer for Music Television"s Lyricist Lounge. McDonald first gained popularity through her stand-up comedy shows in Los Los Angeles
She also began writing and performing for the Wayans Brothers in a couple of their films.
She has been a writer as well as guest on Chelsea Lately since its premier in 2007. In June 2010, McDonald published her first book, a memoir entitled You"ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again: One Woman"s Painfully Funny Quest to Give lieutenant Up, which made The New York Times Best-Seller List.
The memoir covers her college and sorority experience while attending the University of Southern California. McDonald published a second memoir in 2013, entitled My Inappropriate Life (Some Stories Not Suitable for Nuns, Children, or Mature Adults).
McDonald"s standup special entitled Heather McDonald: I Don"t Mean To Brag was recorded in 2014 and released on Netflix in September 2015.
Impressions
McDonald has a repertoire of women characters of whom she does impressions in her standup routines.
After high school, McDonald went to the University of Southern California ( University of Southern California), where she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority.