Janine Brito

Janine Brito
Born	Florida, United States
Medium	Stand-up comedy
Nationality	American
Notable works and roles	Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell Laughter Against The Machine
Website	janinebrito.com

Janine Brito is an American stand-up comic. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene, she is recognized nationally as a writer and on-air correspondent for the television program Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, which premiered on FX in 2012 and was canceled early in its second season due to a drop in ratings after the series was moved to FX's spin-off network FXX.

Brito was born in Florida, though she went on to attend junior high school in Scotland and Hong Kong and high school in Kentucky. After high school, Brito moved to St. Louis to pursue a business degree at the Washington University in St. Louis. Once she graduated from college, she remained in St. Louis and launched her comedy career. Though she was politically active in college with the student and labor rights movement, her comedy wasn't explicitly political at first. Eventually, she moved to Oakland specifically for the city's comedy scene and reputation for fostering progressive comics. It was in Oakland that she honed her focus on identity politics and decided to take more risks in her act, such as adopting her signature androgynous style.

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