Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian. Boosler was born into a Jewish immigrant family and raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She was the youngest child and only daughter of her father, a Russian acrobat, and her mother, a Romanian ballerina. She is married to Bill Siddons, a music industry executive and former manager of The Doors.

Boosler worked as a doorman at The Improvisation comedy club in New York City for two and a half years. While working there, she met comedian Andy Kaufman, a regular at the club, who convinced her she should do standup comedy. In 1986, Boosler became the first woman to get her own one-hour comedy special on cable when Showtime aired Party of One.

Her 1992 New Year's Eve comedy-variety special, Elayne Boosler's Midnight Hour, was a 90-minute special from a Town Hall in New York and telecast live on Showtime. She has guest-starred as an actress on Night Court, The Cosby Show, Living Single, Dear John, Sisters, and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, and done cartoon voiceovers. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.