She has said that comedy helped her work through both her parents' deaths, 'it was a blessing that I had found these things before they passed away so I could escape.'

'' Byer's parents both died when she was young, her mother while Nicole was a teen in high school, and her father when she was 21. She described how the experience eventually led to her to studying improv, 'They would give me a lot of money because they were like, 'You're very funny. She worked there as a waitress for a restaurant and cabaret club. In 2021, Byer began co-hosting Wipeout with John Cena.īyer is the host of the Team Coco podcast Why Won't You Date Me?, the Earwolf podcast Best Friends co-hosted with Sasheer Zamata, and the Headgum podcast Newcomers.īyer's first full-length special, Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo), premiered on Netflix in December 2021 and earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.īyer was born and raised in New Jersey and moved to New York City in the early 2000s. She also appeared in films, including Other People (2016), All About Nina (2018), Bad Hair (2020), and Valley Girl (2020). She made several guest appearances in such comedy series as 30 Rock (2012), Family Guy (2016), Transparent (2016–2017), The Good Place (2019), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2019–2021), and The Simpsons (2019). Byer later starred in the MTV/ Facebook Watch comedy series Loosely Exactly Nicole (2016–2018), which was based on her real life experiences. īyer gained recognition for her work in the commentary series Girl Code (2013). She is known as the host of the Netflix comedic reality bake-off series Nailed It! (2018–present), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Nicole Byer (born August 29, 1986) is an American comedian, actress, and television host.

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