Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta will tell the story of his life and career in a new memoir, People magazine reports.
Harper Influence will publish the comedian’s Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy next year. On an Amazon page for the memoir, the press describes the book as “a wildly funny and insightful memoir about his unlikely journey from professional tennis player (#864 in the world) to professional comedian (there’s no ranking system in comedy but he’s probably…top 50?).”
Kosta played tennis for a living before taking a job as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan. He began performing stand-up comedy while working for the school and in 2017 was hired by the Daily Show as a correspondent. He is currently among the show’s cast of rotating hosts.
In his book, Harper Influence says, Kosta “shows the unlikely ways life on the court prepared him for life in front of a microphone. Like comedy, tennis is brutally competitive, and most people lose at it. Unlike comedy, no one in tennis puts a gun on the table as they count out your earnings in twenty-dollar bills at the end of the night.”
“Pro tennis to pro comedy seems insane now that I think about it—but what’s so fascinating about life, to me, is that when you chase down a goal you might get there,” Kosta told People. “You might achieve it.’
Lucky Loser is slated for publication on March 11, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
