I'm the most comfortable when I'm playing a naturalistic character. In a commercial for KMart, Kemper is featured as a camper with a live tarantula crawling over her face. Kemper has also appeared in several national commercials. Pieces include "I'm Not Exactly Afraid of Really Intense Fashion". She is also a contributor to The Huffington Post, the liberal American news website founded by Arianna Huffington. Her essays for McSweeney's included "Listen, Kid, The Biggest Thing You've Got Going For You Is Your Rack", "Following My Creative Writing Teacher's Advice To Write 'Like My Parents Are Dead'", and "Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids". Kemper is a contributing writer for the national satirical newspaper The Onion and for McSweeney's, the literary journal founded by Dave Eggers. Kemper has written several sketch comedy shows many of them with her comedy partner Scott Eckert, a fellow Princeton grad. She also appeared on 3 episodes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2007-2008. In October 2008, Kemper appeared on The Colbert Report in a PSA for Teen Voter Abstinence. She has appeared on comedy sketches on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Important Things with Demetri Martin, and an episode of E! Television's The Gastineau Girls, which has been described as her "breakout role". Kemper graduated from Princeton in 2002 with a degree in English, then studied English for a year at the University of Oxford. Her field hockey team went to the national championship in her freshman year, but she quit the team in later years to focus on theater.
She also played field hockey at Princeton, although she claims she sat on the bench "roughly 97 percent" of the time. She participated in Quipfire!, a renowned improv comedy group, and the Princeton Triangle Club, a touring musical comedy theater troupe. Ellie Kemper graduated from John Burroughs School in 1998 and attended Princeton University, where she continued her interest in improvisational comedy.
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