Audie Cornish, one of the hosts of NPR's All Things Considered, sits down for intimate conversations with Funny Ladies!
We invite you to join us for a look behind-the-scenes of radio making with Audie and an array of women in comedy. Comedians, writers and actors join Audie to explore their personal road to funny, the state of the industry and breaking rules in comedy.
Up next: Nicole Byer!
Doors: 7:30 p.m.
Show: 8:00 p.m.
An actress, comedian and writer, Nicole does it all! She hosts the baking show Nailed It, currently streaming on Netflix, and has a sitcom loosely based on her life streaming on Facebook Watch called Loosely Exactly Nicole. Byer also appears in the new Netflix animated series Tuca & Bertie alongside Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong and continues to host her popular weekly podcast Why Don't You Date Me?
She recently starred on the Fox sketch show Party Over Here. You've also seen her on MTV's Girl Code, 30 Rock, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, @MIDNIGHT, Adult Swim, Chelsea Lately, Transparent, and Lady Dynamite.
Nicole co-wrote and starred in Pursuit of Sexiness which Variety named a "Web Series to Watch." She was featured as a Time Out LA "Comic to Watch" in 2015, and Refinery 29 says she’s a female comic to look out for. Nicole has also been featured in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Elle, and Ebony.
Audie Cornish is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine.
Previously, she served as host of Weekend Edition Sunday. Prior to moving into that host position in the fall of 2011, Cornish reported from Capitol Hill for NPR News, covering issues and power in both the House and Senate and specializing in financial industry policy. She was part of NPR's six-person reporting team during the 2008 presidential election, and had a featured role in coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Cornish comes to Washington, D.C., from Nashville, where she covered the South for NPR, including many the Gulf states left reeling by the 2005 hurricane season. She has also covered the aftermath of other disasters, including the deaths of several miners in West Virginia in 2006, as well as the tornadoes that struck Tennessee in 2006 and Alabama in 2007.
In 2005, Cornish shared in a first prize in the National Awards for Education Writing for "Reading, Writing, and Race," a study of the achievement gap. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
