Yamaneika Saunders
Stand-up comedian

Yamaneika Saunders

Who Yamaneika Saunders is

Yamaneika Saunders is a stand-up comedian, actress and television writer from Aberdeen, Maryland, who moved to Los Angeles at 15 to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and began doing stand-up there. She reached the semi-finals of NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2014, had a half hour on Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents in 2017 and was part of the first season of Netflix's The Degenerates; she has performed at Just for Laughs in Montreal and is a regular at the Comedy Cellar. She played Maya on Hulu's Life & Beth and Dr. Flowers on Showtime's Flatbush Misdemeanors, won a Writers Guild of America Award on the writing staff of Inside Amy Schumer, and hosts Off Topic with Yamaneika on SiriusXM and the podcast You're the Problem … with Yamaneika.

At a glance

Came up through
Last Comic Standing
Stand-up specials
Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, The Degenerates and White Shenanigans
Podcasts
Off Topic with Yamaneika and You're the Problem … with Yamaneika
On screen
Last Comic Standing, Funny Girls, Flatbush Misdemeanors and 9 more
Next on stage
11 November 2026 — New York Comedy Club Upper West Side, New York, NY

On stage

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Specials, shows and podcasts

Stand-up specials

On screen

Podcasts

Where they got their start

Came up the same way

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Career timeline

  1. 2014Last Comic Standing (contestant, semi-finalist, season 8, NBC, 2014) On screen
  2. 2015Funny Girls (main cast, Oxygen, 2015) On screen
  3. 2017Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (2017, Comedy Central) Special
  4. 2018The Degenerates (2018, Netflix; season 1) Special
  5. 2021Flatbush Misdemeanors (Dr. Flowers, Showtime, 2021–2022) On screen
  6. 2022Life & Beth (Maya, Hulu, 2022–2024) On screen
  7. 2022Inside Amy Schumer (writer, 2022) On screen
  8. 2022That Damn Michael Che (writer, season 2, 2022) On screen
  9. 2024Off Topic with Yamaneika (host, Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud Radio on SiriusXM, since 2024) Podcast or book
  10. 2026You're the Problem … with Yamaneika (host, podcast, iHeartPodcasts' Dear Chelsea Network, since 2026) Podcast or book

Questions about Yamaneika Saunders

Where is Yamaneika Saunders performing next?

Wednesday 11 November 2026, 9:15 PM (An Hour with Yamaneika Saunders Presented by the New York Comedy Festival) at New York Comedy Club Upper West Side, New York, NY. Each show's own listing has the last word.

What stand-up specials have they released?

Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, The Degenerates and White Shenanigans.

What podcast do they host?

Off Topic with Yamaneika and You're the Problem … with Yamaneika.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Last Comic Standing, Funny Girls, Flatbush Misdemeanors, Life & Beth, Inside Amy Schumer and That Damn Michael Che, among 12 credits.

Where did they get their start?

Last Comic Standing (semi-finalist).

Who are some comedians like them?

Carmen Lynch (also in Life & Beth), Amy Schumer (also in Life & Beth), Hannibal Buress (also in The Eric Andre Show), Sean Donnelly (also in Broad City) and Ahamed Weinberg (also in The Eric Andre Show).

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.

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Sources

Updated 5 October 2026 · the record checked 29 September 2026