Vanessa Polster Bayer is an American actress, comedian and writer. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She co-created, co-executive produces, and has the lead role in the Showtime comedy I Love That for You, loosely based on her experience as a survivor of childhood leukemia. She has appeared in such films as Trainwreck (2015), Office Christmas Party (2016), Carrie Pilby (2016), Ibiza (2018) and Wander Darkly (2020).
Bayer at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in 2015
I Love That for You is an American comedy television show created and executive produced by Vanessa Bayer and Jeremy Beiler for Showtime. The show stars Bayer as Joanna Gold, an aspiring host for shopping channel SVN, who lies that her childhood cancer has returned in order to keep her job. The story is inspired by Bayer's personal experience with childhood leukemia. I Love That for You premiered on May 1, 2022. In June 2023, the series was canceled after one season.
I Love That for You