Jordan Carlos

Jordan Carlos
Birth name	Jordan Carlos
Medium	Stand-up, television, television personality
Nationality	American
Years active	2001 - present
Notable works and roles	The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore Guy Code The Colbert Report
Website	Official Website

Jordan Carlos is an American stand-up comedian who played a recurring character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host on the Nickelodeon kids' show Me TV. He also appeared as a panelist and reporter on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

After graduating from Brown University in 2001, Carlos went to work as a copywriter in a New York ad firm. Carlos did this during the day and used the significant paycheck to finance a career in stand-up. Eventually, Carlos chose to abandon advertising altogether, although he feels he had trouble finding a niche audience because he "wasn't a stereotypical black man". He learned to use that characteristic as the basis for many of his jokes.

On The Colbert Report, Carlos played Alan, host Stephen Colbert's "black friend". Whenever Colbert discussed racial issues, he often asked that a picture of him with his African-American coworker Alan be shown on screen. Colbert sometimes referred to him as "Alan, my black friend Alan". Alan first appeared on a Martin Luther King Day program when Colbert, complaining about having to work on the holiday, brought Alan into the argument, hoping that Alan was angry because he had to work, too. To Colbert's surprise, Alan was not.

Carlos is a writer on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, but also appears in sketches and is often on the panel. His characters include Carlos Jordanson, a Hillary Clinton campaign aide, and Dennis Rodman.

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