About Kelley Lynn

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Kelley Lynn is a stand-up comedian, actor, author, speaker, the girl in the viral sensation #Mcfallen video, life coach, and certified grief counselor; living in small town Massachusetts with her husband Nick, and their moody old lady cat Autumn. As a writer, she has interviewed several celebs including Tracey Gold, Cloris Leachman, and Trisha Yearwood, for various online entertainment sites. Tom Bergeron has been a fan of Kelley's, and would often retweet and share her weekly reviews of “Dancing With the Stars”, referring to Kelley’s writing and humor as “wonderfully snarky.” Kelley is also honored to be a weekly writer for the Soaring Spirit’s blog “Widows Voice”.

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Kelley is a proud TEDx speaker. Her TEDx talk, performed live on March 31, 2017 in NYC, is titled “When Someone You Love Dies, There is No Such Thing as Moving On.” The video has gone viral at 3 million views and counting.

Kelley has performed stand-up comedy in numerous NYC clubs, as well as in various venues around the country. She was an Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University; teaching acting and Stand-Up Comedy courses for 16 years. Kelley has performed with such names as Judy Gold, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, and Elayne Boosler. She has been featured in several viral comedy videos for the “OpieRadio” YouTube channel (formerly of “The Opie and Anthony Show” – xm/Sirius satellite radio). Opie and Kelley's #McFallen video became a viral sensation, with the term Mcfallen creating a viral hashtag. Kelley has guested on the @OpieRadio podcast twice in 2018 and 2019, as well as recently being a guest on the cable TV show “Open to Hope”, discussing widowhood and dating after loss.

On July 13th, 2011, Kelley’s life changed forever when her dear husband of almost 5 years collapsed at work and died from a sudden, massive heart attack. He was a healthy 46-year-old paramedic, animal activist, and Air Force veteran. In March 2012; Kelley wrote, directed, and starred in an original one-woman show about her husband’s death entitled: “My Husband Is Not a Rainbow”, in the Network’s One-Act Play Festival, where she placed in the Semi-Finals. Kelley has taken her “dead husband comedy” to several venues and events, including performing stand-up for a couple of hundred psychiatrists, therapists, and doctors at an Awards Event. Kelley has presented her comedic, 75-minute talk, to groups of widowed men and women, at the Soaring Spirits “Camp Widow” www.campwidow.org events, in San Diego, Tampa, and Toronto, since 2013. Her favorite sound in the universe is "widowed people laughing."

Kelley’s first book, “My Husband Is Not a Rainbow: The Brutally Awful, Hilarious Truth about Life, Love, Grief, and Loss”, was released in June of 2018 and is currently available on Amazon. Books can also be purchased directly through this site, signed and personalized, by clicking on the "BOOK" page.

In June of 2017, Kelley began dating a wonderful man named Nick. They moved into their apartment the day before the pandemic began in 2020. After surviving quarantined life together, they decided to get married and held a private, covid-safe ceremony at The Groton Inn on New Year’s Eve of 2020. The entire world was invited via live-stream "Facebook LIVE" video.

Kelley continues her ongoing mission to change the conversations we have surrounding grief and loss, and to help other widowed people to find purpose, meaning, and joy again, while living with the death of the person they love. Kelley believes that love grows love and that nobody ever really dies, as long as we continue to tell their story.

BONUS KELLEY FACTS:

  • Kelley is afraid of the number 7. She finds the number 7 to be especially frightening when someone draws it with a line through the middle. The number 9 is fun and pleasing to her, and the 7 appears creepy and angular and mean.

  • Kelley has weird food issues that cannot be explained. She hates ketchup with the fire of a thousand suns. Watching someone’s chin drip with butter and corn pieces while they eat corn on the cob, is enough to send Kelley into panic mode. She cannot eat anything that involves“wet” bread, such as sloppy joes, or a “hot open turkey sandwich.” (which sounds oddly sexual and disturbing.) Kelley loves the taste of mayonnaise, but if she sees it coming out of the corners of her sandwich, or on the corners of someone’s mouth, she will have to leave the room immediately, and not eat the sandwich at all.

  • When Kelley was 20 years old, she was arrested in a Caldor department store for shoplifting 1980’s compilation cassette tapes. It was one of the most embarrassing moments of her life.

  • While working as a Tour Guide at Radio City Music Hall years ago, Kelley was once screamed at by Barry Manilow, when she walked a group of tourists into the middle of his sound-check rehearsal. Barry instructed Kelley that her tourists were to put their cameras away immediately, and would not be able to watch the rehearsal. Barry was wearing a red satin jacket and sporting a lovely permed haircut, as he barked out these orders to Kelley.

  • In the 1980s, during her high school years, a smart-ass friend of Kelley’s entered her into “The Miss Teen Massachusetts Pagent”, knowing how much Kelley despised “girly things” such as this. She did the pageant, came in as 3rd Runner-up, and went home with a plastic trophy, and a year’s supply of Hawaiian Tropic tanning lotion.

  • Kelley loathes all forms of exercise, especially running – and immensely enjoys eating cake, all forms of potato, and anything involving gravy.

  • A video of Kelley Lynn falling in a McDonald’s and saying “I’ve McFallen” has become an overnight internet sensation!!! See it on her video page on this site.