Joyelle Nicole Johnson
Stand-up comedian · Brooklyn, NY

Joyelle Nicole Johnson

Also known as Joyelle Nicole and Joyelle Johnson

Who Joyelle Nicole Johnson is

Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a stand-up comedian based in Brooklyn, New York, named in 2020 on Vulture's list of Comedians You Should and Will Know. Her debut stand-up album, Yell Joy, came out on Blonde Medicine on 19 June 2021, and her first televised special, Love Joy, recorded at the Bell House, was released on Peacock in 2021. She has played festivals including Atlanta's West End Comedy Fest in 2022, SXSW in 2023 and the Flyover Comedy Festival in St. Louis in 2024, and her track JFL 2023 Big in Taiwan was played on SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel in November 2025.

At a glance

Based in
Brooklyn, NY
Stand-up specials
Love Joy
Albums
Yell Joy
Podcasts
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
On screen
Broad City, Pause with Sam Jay, Late Night with Seth Meyers and 5 more
Official site
joyellenicole.com ↗

On stage

No dated show on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now — their own site has their dates: joyellenicole.com ↗.

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Specials, shows and podcasts

Stand-up specials

Albums

On screen

Podcasts

Comedians like Joyelle Nicole Johnson

Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town.

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Their stand-up

Johnson began performing stand-up in 2006, has written for Broad City and Pause with Sam Jay, and was the warm-up comic for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj; her work on Pause with Sam Jay earned a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in 2023.

Love Joy, released on Peacock in November 2021 with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers as executive producers, was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award for Best Comedy Special in 2022, and in 2023 she joined NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! as a panelist.

Career timeline

  1. 2021Love Joy (Peacock, 2021) Special
  2. 2021Yell Joy (Blonde Medicine, 2021) Album
  3. 2023Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! (panelist, NPR, from 2023) Podcast or book
  4. 2025Celebrity Family Feud (2025) On screen

Questions and answers

Where is Joyelle Nicole Johnson performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now; their own site has their dates: joyellenicole.com ↗.

What stand-up specials have they released?

Love Joy.

What podcasts have they been on?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

What TV shows and films are they in?

Broad City, Pause with Sam Jay, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Crashing and Search Party, among 8 credits.

Where are they based?

Brooklyn, NY, as their record gives it.

Who are some comedians like them?

Yamaneika Saunders (also in Broad City), Ian Fidance (also in Pause with Sam Jay), Josh Gondelman (also on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!), Jacqueline Novak (also in Broad City) and Gianmarco Soresi (also on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!).

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

Their SUCDb record →Their own site ↗

Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 8 October 2026