Rekha Shankar
Acting
Rekha Shankar is an executive story editor for Grand Crew (NBC) and for Andy Samberg and Neil Campbell's Digman! (Comedy Central). She was also a staff writer for Animaniacs (Hulu) and Head Writer for CollegeHumor's Hardly Working series. In 2020 she was selected for Just For Laughs: New Faces - Creators. She can be seen in Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Hacks, Aunty Donna’s House of Fun, and as Cupid in a Hershey’s commercial. She is also on stage every week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre LA. Other credits include The New Yorker, ClickHole, Reductress, Kal Penn Approves This Message, Slamdance, and being a national punner. One of her New Yorker pieces about how recipes have way too much backstory up top even went “viral.”
Known for
Acting43
tvStar Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026
DoT (voice)
tvSmosh Presents: We're All Gonna Die
2025
The Blue Giggler
tvNobody Asked
2024
Self - Host
tvGastronauts
2024
Self - Judge
movieChris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
2024
Rekha Shankar
tvSmartypants
2024
Self - Host
tvVery Important People
2023
Mother Hot Dog
tvDigman!
2023
Jaya (voice)
tvPhoning It In
2022
Self - Idiot
tvDirty Laundry
2022
Self - Guest
tvHacks
2021
Victoria
tvAunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
2020
Neighbour / Ginger / Woman At Fight / SWAT SWAT
tvErotic Clubhouse
2020
Self - Host
tvWhere in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati?
2019
Self - Host
tvUltramechatron Team Go!
2019
Sarah / Sarah / Crab Sarah (voice) / Puppet Sarah (voice)
tvGame Changer
2019
Self - Contestant / Self (archive footage) / Self - Jury Member / Self - Contestant / Team 2 Car Wash / Self - Guard
tvGods of Food
2019
Customer 1
tvKingpin Katie
2019
Rekha Shankar
tvDownbeat
2019
Olivia
tvWTF 101
2019
Sloth (voice)
tvErotic Book Club
2018
Self - Host
tvUm, Actually...
2018
Self - Contestant
tvCartoon Hell
2018
Womantis (voice) / Aggmin (voice) / Mel (voice) / Camilla (voice) / Greta (voice) / Hashley (voice) / Tammy / Keena Left (voice) / Mekena (voice) / Goblina (voice) / Aggmin / Joan (voice)
tvDimension 20
2018
Maggie / Daisy D’umpstaire / Katja Cleaver / Usha Rao / G13
tvBreaking News: No Laugh Newsroom
2018
Scrum Tooterscoots / Susanne Pershing / Toronto's Onfire / Billabong Thorton / Maximillian Chungus / Potato / Damp Probably / Felicity Almond / P.P. Cocktail / Grizabella Grits / Mama New Here / Dung Beetle / Fish Tig (Shelby) / Stuart Big / Rekha Shankar
Writing7
tvDigman!
2023
Writer, Staff Writer
tvGrand Crew
2021
Story Editor, Executive Story Editor, Writer
tvGods of Food
2019
Writer
Creator4
Crew3
tvErotic Clubhouse
2020
Creator
tvA Message From the CEO
2018
Additional Writing
Production3
tvSmartypants
2024
Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer
tvWhere in the Eff is Sarah Cincinnati?
2019
Executive Producer
tvGods of Food
2019
Executive Producer
Directing1
tvA Message From the CEO
2018
Director
Editing1
tvDeadline: Crime with Tamron Hall
2013
Assistant Editor