As a standup comedian Kate Rigg has appeared on NBC Late Friday, CTV Women of The Night, NPR, CBC Radio, Sirius Radio, STAR TV, National Lampoon's International Comedy DVD, Comedy Central, SEX TV, PBS, as well as being profiled in the film Race is the Place Alongside Amiri Baraka and Danny Hoch (aired at festivals and on PBS); She has hosted 20th Century Fox's Singalong Sound of Music, The Asian American Heritage Fest in Union Square Park, The Heritage of Pride Rally in Bryant Park, the Black and Blue Ball in NYC, countless special events, and has co-produced various comedy shows including Desi-licious the southasian comedy gurus, and The Naughty Show Bad Girls of Comedy Show which is in international release on DVD by Eagle Rock Entertainment.

She was a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow as well as a 2005 NEA grant recipient to develop new work. She has been awarded grants and prizes by The Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council, The Australia Council for the Arts, The Norma Epstein Foundation, The Juilliard School Interarts Program, and the University of Melbourne.

She recurs on Law and Order, Fox's Family Guy, and starred in the New York premiere of Dogeaters at the Public Theater and BFE at Playwright's Horizons.