Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Chelsea Peretti will host the 2019 Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 17. The show will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“I’m excited for people to judge the writing of my jokes!” Peretti said.
“Chelsea Peretti is hosting the Writers Guild Awards, and she will do a FANTASTIC job. Not a WITCH HUNT,” executive producer Hugh Fink said. “I picked Chelsea because she’s a great comedian and writer. There was NO COLLUSION.”
Peretti has written for Parks and Recreation, for which she earned two Writers Guild Award nominations for comedy series in 2012 and 2013. She has also written for Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Kroll Show, as well as the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.
She appeared in the farewell season of Girls, New Girl, Louie, Alone Together, Kroll Show, Drunk History, Key and Peele, and The Sarah Silverman Program. Peretti was in the comedy Game Night, and had wrapped shooting Friendsgiving, opposite Malin Akerman and Kat Dennings, as well as the upcoming indie film Spinster, both due out next year.
The WGA will hold a simultaneous awards ceremony on Feb. 17 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City.
