Jaboukie Young-White Biography
Jaboukie Young-White is an American writer and more known as a stand up comedian. He is a correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
Jaboukie Young-White Age
Jaboukie is 24 years old as of 2018. He was born on 24 July in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Jaboukie Young-White Parents
Jaboukie comes from a family that is of Jamaican descent. His parents’ names are not mentioned in full but after his birthday in June 2017, he wished his parents a happy anniversary with the caption “happy anniversary to the writers and executive producers of the hit series Me just renewed for its 23rd season”. However in a later post, Jaboukie shared a post with multiple photos and videos and mentioned her mom as Norma.
Jaboukie Young-White Brothers
The Daily Show correspondent has two brothers: Javaughn Young-White and Javeigh Young-White.
Jaboukie Young-White Stand-Up
The first time Jaboukie performed stand up, he was 19 years old. It was at an open mic night. He was then hired for his first stand-up gig at the age of 21 after which he went on to perform stand-up at several bars and clubs around Chicago and New York City. Jaboukie participated in the 2016 NYC Devil Cup Stand Up Festival and he was the finalist.
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Jaboukie Young-White Daily Show – Trevor Noah
Jaboukie is a correspondent of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah as of October 2018. His first feature on the comedy central show was on October 11, 2018, opposite the show’s host, Trevor Noah.
Jaboukie Young-White American Vandal
American Vandal is a mockumentary web television series that premiered on September 15, 2017. Since 2018, Jaboukie writes for the show as well as for another Netflix TV show, Big Mouth.
Jaboukie Young-White Movie
Jaboukie’s first movie was “Rough Night”, a 2017 Scarlett Johansson comedy.In the comedy film, he plays an extra at a costume party in which he was dressed as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character, in a fake mustache, fake perm, a very unflattering one-piece lime green swimsuit that barely held everything together.
Jaboukie Young-White Height
Young-White’s height is not known.
Jaboukie’s Net Worth
Young-White’s net worth is not known.
Jaboukie Young-White Tour – Shows
- JAN 07 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Union Hall - JAN 17 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Union Hall - JAN 18 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Union Hall - FEB 11 2019
Brooklyn, NY
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Jaboukie Young-White Interview
Jaboukie Young-White’s Young Hollywood 2019 Interview on the Challenge of The Daily Show, Diversity in Writers Rooms, and Comedy as a Political Act
Published: 7th February 2019
Teen Vogue: What parts of who you are as a performer do you hope to see more of in Hollywood?
Jaboukie Young-White: I’m really excited to see stories coming from queer people and people of color that are able to explore our humanity outside of suffering and being the victim. I feel like we have so much more to offer than the sh*tty things people do to us. You know what I mean? I’m just interested in seeing more of our full humanity depicted in Hollywood.
TV: What has been the biggest challenge to proving yourself in Hollywood?
JY-W: The thing is, in Hollywood everyone loves youth. At the same time, they discredit you and they’re like, “You don’t know anything, you don’t have enough experience.” Just being young, you have so many points at which you have to sort of betray your age and show a competency that’s beyond your years. I don’t f*ck around with being late, just because I know that people already have this image of you’re young. When I first started doing stuff seriously, I was 22. People were like, “Oh, he’s 22. He’s still in this college mindset.” It’s trying to break people of that idea of you that can be really hard.
TV: What do you hope young people learn from the kinds of projects you’ve worked on?
JY-W: I hope people can learn that if you’re willing to dedicate yourself and put in the work, something can happen even from a nothing meeting. For me, I didn’t really have family that was in entertainment. I didn’t really grow up with an uncle that’s a TV writer or something, so I didn’t even know that it was possible at all. I slowly learned more about it and ended up here. I want people to not be discouraged by the fact that they don’t have a legacy in Hollywood that’s bringing them in. I know for me, and I’m sure other people, they don’t come from Hollywood families. That’s something that I really want to encourage [in] people: Don’t be deterred from that.
TV: You might be working on these big movies and appearing on television, but a lot of the time comedians are still doing stand-up gigs at smaller venues. How do you balance traveling between these worlds?
JY-W: It will humble you so fast. Doing The Daily Show, it’s in a live studio audience and they’re so excited to be there. The crowd is really hot. I’ll go from that to performing at a basement show in Brooklyn where everybody has worked retail all day and are super tired and kind of grouchy. It will just bring you right back down and be like, right, you are just a person at the end of the day. The recalibration can be hard. Sometimes it’ll take a couple sets to get back into it. I’m just now starting to expand and do bigger things. I feel like the trick I’m getting into now is being aware of the environment and what the space is and what each performance requires from me and what the audience is expecting.
TV: How has it been working on The Daily Show?
JY-W: My favorite — and the most challenging — part is that it really is five jobs in one. You do sketch, you do on-camera, in-studio stuff, you do field pieces, you do writing. It’s so many different things at once, which is so exciting. At the same time, it is very challenging. That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find new ways to be funny.
TV: Over the past couple of years, it feels like comedy has become an essential tool to talk about our current political landscape. What have you learned about the politicization of a joke?
JY-W: There’s an infectiousness to comedy. It’s meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you’re talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it. So much of this sh*t now is just so abjectly terrible that there’s no other way to engage with it besides putting a spin on it or a laugh. Because so many people will just not hear it any other way because it’s a lot to handle at times. It acts as a filter to cut some of the edge off so people can still take in the message or still hear what needs to be said.
TV: With all the talk of diversity in Hollywood, a lot of times writers rooms can still be extremely homogeneous. Why is it vital that diversity extends behind the camera?
JY-W: For those talks to actually be serious and to effect change instead of just [being] marketing tools, you have to incorporate people behind the scenes. Which means incorporating queer people, women, women of color, people of color, queer people of color, queer women of color. Literally all of it. There are certain views and ways that you see the world that someone who has an identity different than yours just simply will not have. That’s valuable.
That’s something I think Big Mouth did really well. There’s this rotation of writers that comes in and there’s a core group of writers. We also had sex-ed specialists come in and talk to us. I think understanding that having diverse faces is great and important, and that helps, but also you need diverse minds and people who think differently from each other. That’s so, so, so important and just as, if not even more, important than just having diverse faces in front of the camera.
TV: How do you keep your comedy feeling innovative and fresh?
JY-W: I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that’s when I’m really excited to share something and really can stand behind it. I think it’s that and just being aware of what I like in comedy and what I don’t like, from things present and past, and just watching other people and being like, “I really like how they did this or this viewpoint or energy that they have toward this subject.” Also, after moving around so much, I’ve had so many funny friends who inspire me to just keep going. It’s really just surrounding myself with funny people and trying to make myself laugh.
Adopted from: teenvogue.com