adrienne gunn is obsessed with pop culture

(and how it ruins lives!)

Author, comedian, columnist, and podcaster Adrienne Gunn takes pop culture way too seriously. Her hilarious first novel, THE FAN FAVORITE, follows a desperate thirty-something as she chases love on a reality TV dating show (Grand Central Publishing, Summer 2025). You can visit her popular newsletter WHERE THE F*CK’S MY HAPPY ENDING?! on Substack and find her podcast DON’T RUIN THIS FOR ME on your fav podcast app. A long-time Chicagoan, Adrienne’s been a columnist for CHICAGO MAGAZINE and her one-woman show MOTHER OF THE YEAR! debuted and returned to sold out Windy City audiences. Adrienne received an MFA from the University of Oregon and is repped by Marcy Posner at Folio Lit. 

  • WHERE THE F*CK'S MY HAPPY ENDING

    Hi, I’m Adrienne and my life didn’t turn how it was supposed to! I’m divorced. I’m a single parent. I have credit card debt and not even one pair of Manolo Blahniks! Where is the life Heathcliff Huxtable and Carrie Bradshaw promised me? Where the f*ck’s my happy ending?!

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  • DON'T RUIN THIS FOR ME

    Comedians and real life BFFs Adrienne Gunn and Elizabeth Gomez look back at the 80s and 90s pop culture that put them on a path towards total middle-aged disappointment because—oops!—apparently real life is nothing like a John Hughes film.

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  • CHICAGO MAGAZINE'S EXPERIMENTALIST

    Zoom dates with Bachelorette contestants, $300 massages, a Mean Girls bootcamp, sound healing, reiki, crystals, the pursuit of the perfect instagram face — I’ve done it all and, trust me, you want to know about it.

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