LAUGHING TO AMERICA
Some comics make the mistake of boxing themselves inside a nonthreatening paradigm in a desire to reach commercial appeal, but the best ones—like Nigerian-British lesbian Gina Yashere—use their comedy not only to pull audiences to higher ground, but to make room for other marginalized comedians in the white male-dominated world of stand-up.
London-born Yashere worked as an and reached the top 10 on 2007’s season 5 of NBC’s Named one of top 10 rising talents, Yashere became the newest British correspondent on and starred in four stand-up specials, two of which ( and ) are streaming on Netflix.
