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Gina Yashere

September 2023

  • ‘I don’t puke before every gig any more so in that sense I have grown’ … Esther Manito.

    Comedy Q&A
    Esther Manito: ‘I still stand backstage thinking I should have worked in John Lewis’

    The standup on her comedy heroes, preshow jitters and the parenting double standards for male and female comedians

November 2021

  • Lenny Henry, Stephen K. Amos, Daliso Chaponda, Gina Yashere

    Black British culture matters
    ‘I’m constantly fighting behind the scenes’ – Black comics on breaking down industry barriers

    Gina Yashere, Stephen K Amos, Lenny Henry and Daliso Chaponda discuss rejecting stereotypes, unwittingly becoming spokespeople and the strides that have been made in representation

July 2021

  • The comedian Gina Yashere.

    Women in TV are gaslit and overlooked. No wonder they’re leaving the UK

    Deborah Frances-White
  • Gina Yashere: ‘I’m proud that I didn’t get taken under by depression and bitterness.’

    The G2 interview
    Gina Yashere on riches, racism and US success: ‘I don’t like to boast, but I’m doing very well!’

November 2020

  • Gina Yashere

    Remote controller
    Gina Yashere: 'The role I wish I'd taken? I wasn't offered enough'

    The comic on her love of I May Destroy You and the boundary-pushing comedy of Kenny Everett, and why she nearly rejected a job on ‘heartfelt’ sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola

June 2020

  • ‘Why you making me sound old?’ … London Hughes, left, and Gina Yashere.

    Black British culture special
    Gina Yashere meets London Hughes: 'America is super-racist but the glass ceiling is higher!'

    In our series pairing veteran black artists with younger talents for a frank chat about their experiences, comedians Gina Yashere and London Hughes reveal why they both felt the need to quit Britain for the US

March 2019

  • Gina Yashere

    The Q&A
    Gina Yashere: ‘Tell you a joke? No: people pay for that’

    The comedian on wanting to be invisible and working as a lift engineer

June 2018

  • Gina Yashere

    Gina Yashere review – liberal anxieties defanged in homecoming triumph

  • Gina Yashere.

    The funniest thing
    Gina Yashere: 'I once had a haircut that made me look like a cotton bud'

July 2017

  • Gina Yashere, lift engineer.

    Heard the one about the standup who built lift shafts? Comedians on their previous careers

    Modelling bras for Asda, giving tours of parliament, proving yourself on a building site … top comics relive their old day jobs

June 2017

  • Gina Yashere photographed in New York for the Guardian.

    The G2 interview
    The Daily Show’s Gina Yashere​: ‘In England, I’d still be the token black face on Mock the Week’

    The lift engineer-turned-standup has always thrived on being a fish out of water – now she’s a US primetime star and Trevor Noah’s regular ‘Brexpert’

July 2016

  • Katy Brand

    Open mic
    Scared of standup? Making the leap from the safety of sketch comedy

    Katy Brand and Kieran Hodgson were intimidated at first by the idea of going it alone on stage. But plenty of comedians journey between sketch troupes and solo performance – taking refuge in one and soul-searching in the other

March 2015

  • Gina Yashere comedian

    Gina Yashere: ‘There are two looks in Hollywood for black women: Beyoncé or Precious’

  • Number 1, the Plaza by Getinthebackofthevan

    Open mic
    What can ‘chin-strokey’ theatre learn from raw standup?

February 2014

  • Michele Hanson

    Still here: reflections on later life
    One whole woman will now appear on BBC TV comedy panel shows – but why stop there?

    Michele Hanson

    Every TV comedy panel show will 'include at least one woman', the BBC has announced. But imagine three women to one man – let's try that and see how he manages, says Michele Hanson

April 2013

  • Nicola Jennings's caricatures
    Gina Yashere

    Nicola Jennings

    Comedian

June 2011

  • Joan Rivers

    The artists' artist
    The artists' artist: standups

    In the second of a new series of weekly columns, leading standups choose their favourite performer of all time

April 2010

  • Kojo

    Heard the one about the black standups?

  • Victoria Wood

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best female comedians

March 2009

  • Udderbelly

    Udderbelly to take up residence on London's South Bank

    Huge purple inflatable fringe venue to set up camp beside London Eye for an eight-week summer season

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