They Tickled Each Others Funny Bone, and Everyone Elses

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2023-06-09 04:00:24  • 5 mins

Abby Barr and Jed Feiman, two comedy writers who regularly riff off each other, also kept their wedding guests laughing.

Abigail Rene Barr and Jed Ronner Feiman are intensely supportive of each other in a funny sort of way. Theyre both comedy writers.

Thats our relationship, she said. Building jokes. That and their mutual love for TV and pop culture.

When Ms. Barr first came across his Bumble profile in July 2016, she was delighted that he was a native New Yorker interested in comedy and theater. (In her vows she joked: How could this possibly work? Youre from the Upper East Side. Im from the Upper West Side.)

She spotted a screenshot on his dating profile of one of the many humor pieces he wrote in The New Yorker magazine with his writing partner. So, she searched on Google and came up with his full name (only first names appear on Bumble where women make the first move).

It was funny, and impressive, said Ms. Barr, 29, who graduated from Oberlin with a bachelors degree in theater. She is the social media manager for Switched on Pop, a pop music podcast on Vulture, a New York Magazine website.

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