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Jaboukie Young-White

Performer

Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician 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, the Netflix features SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon and SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. 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, recurring in the HBO Max series RAP SH!T, produced by Issa Rae, and as a guest star of Netflix’s BLACK MIRROR. Jaboukie also voices the lead roles of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon, and the role of “Ethan” in Disney’s STRANGE WORLD. Jaboukie has over 844.5k followers on Twitter @jaboukie. Jaboukie’s album, All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel, debuted last summer.

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Events featuring Jaboukie Young-White
Mar 15, 2024
12:00pm — 1:30pm
Presented by
Urban Outfitters
Events featuring Jaboukie Young-White
Mar 15, 2024
12:00pm — 1:30pm
Presented by
Urban Outfitters