Meet Laura Lane and Angela Spera.

This Is Why You’re Single is a book, podcast and sketch show by Laura Lane and Angela Spera. The book was selected as a “best new book” by People Magazine and was optioned for TV by the Pop Network with Laura and Angela attached to write the pilot. The podcast hit the iTunes top 10 comedy podcast rankings garnered over 4.5 million downloads.

Inspired by their own real-life dating misadventures, the duo began writing sketch comedy together at the Peoples Improv Theater. Their first show debuted in October 2013, was listed in the New York Times and immediately sold out. They performed the show off and on for two years, including opening the 2014 New York City Sketch Festival and bringing the show to Washington, D.C.

This Is Why You're Single the book was published in the U.S. by Adams Media (Simon & Schuster). It came out internationally in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Czech Republic, Romania and Taiwan.

The podcast launched in August 2015 with the HeadGum network. They’ve been written about by The Huffington Post, Splitsider, Elite Daily, Entrepreneur, HelloGiggles, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, Glamour, The Washington Post and more. The A.V. Club praised “Lane and Spera’s growing, modern millennial voice." The Huffington Post named it one of "8 Podcasts To Improve Your Love Life" and Glamour wrote "[They] will make you laugh and give you some practical dating advice.” In 2020 they re-branded their podcast to This Is Why to encompass their growing interests, giving best friend advice on everything from news, politics, motherhood, dating, friendship, workplace dynamics and more. The podcast wrapped after six years in August 2021.

ABOUT THE WRITERS:

LAURA LANE

Laura is an author, journalist, comedy writer and performer. She is the co-author of the books Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling and This Is Why You’re Single, which was optioned for TV and was adapted into a hit podcast. She has written for The New Yorker, People, Esquire, ESPN, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post and McSweeney's, and was an editor at three entertainment magazines. She wrote jokes for season 5 of TruTV's show Billy on the Street and the book Coloring for Grown-Ups: Holiday Fun. She has a piece in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue 59. As an entertainment commentator she's appeared on VH1, The Insider, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, E!, MTV, MSNBC and CNN's Showbiz Tonight.

ANGELA SPERA

Angela is a writer and editor based in New York City. She is the co-creator of This Is Why You're Single, a former sketch comedy stage show and current book and podcast. Her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan and The Washington Post. She wrote jokes for season 5 of TruTV's Billy on the Street and was a story producer on the "ambush comedy talk show" Start Talkin' with Scott Rogowsky. She now has a day job acting as a human Spell Check.