Frank Lesser (born 1980) is an American author and satirist best known as a staff writer for The Colbert Report from 2005 until 2013.
He was also a writer for the first season of TruTv's At Home with Amy Sedaris (2017–2021) Lesser has also contributed comedic pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate.com, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
"[5] During his send-off on the show, Colbert remarked that "Around the office Frank was known for his intelligence, sensitivity, and his completely unproducible scripts.
And so in some ways, you don’t feel as bad when they cut your jokes because you’re like, “Okay, well this person knows what they’re talking about,” and in other ways you’re like, “Why doesn’t Stephen Colbert like this joke?”[4]In 2011 he wrote the book Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside, a collection of short humor pieces exploring the trial and tribulations of different monsters, accompanied by illustrations by Willie Real.
[7][3] In 2017 he joined the writing staff of surreal comedy television series At Home with Amy Sedaris.