Jaboukie Young-White

Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician from Chicago who was a correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH. 

Named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch at the 2018 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Jaboukie has performed stand up twice on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and debuted his half-hour comedy special on COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP PRESENTS. 

Jaboukie’s writing credits include Netflix’s AMERICAN VANDAL and BIG MOUTH. He can be seen in the last season of HBO’s CRASHING, recurring in the Hulu series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, recurring in the HBO Max series RAP SH!T, produced by Issa Rae, and as a guest star of Netflix’s BLACK MIRROR. On the feature side, you can see him in the A24 produced Mike Mills feature C'MON, C'MON opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Sony’s ROUGH NIGHT directed by Lucia Aniello, Netflix’s SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon, SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. 

Jaboukie also voices the lead roles of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon, and the role of “Ethan” in Disney’s STRANGE WORLD. Most recently, Jaboukie can be seen in THE THREESOME, directed by Chad Hartigan, which just premiered at SXSW 2025 and the Warner Brothers feature film, COMPANION, directed by Drew Hancock, now streaming. Jaboukie’s musical debut, All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel, was released through Interscope records in 2023. He currently recurs on ABC’s ABBOTT ELEMENTAR