ABOUT
Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer and filmmaker from Chicago who was a correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH. Named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch at the 2018 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Jaboukie has performed stand up twice on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and debuted his half-hour comedy special on COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP PRESENTS. Jaboukie’s writing credits include Netflix’s AMERICAN VANDAL and BIG MOUTH. He can be seen in the last season of HBO’s CRASHING, the Sony feature ROUGH NIGHT directed by Lucia Aniello, and the Netflix features SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon and SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Currently, you can see Jaboukie as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. Coming up, you can see Jaboukie in the A24 produced Mike Mills feature C'MON, C'MON opposite Joaquin Phoenix, recurring in the Hulu series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, and recurring in the upcoming HBO Max series RAP SHIT, produced by Issa Rae. Jaboukie also voices the lead role of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon. Jaboukie has over 885k followers on Twitter @jaboukie.
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