HOODO HERSI | Comedian
City: Toronto/New York
Instagram: @hoodocomedy
Previous work: Late Night with Seth Meyers, The New Wave of Standup Season 2 (CBC Comedy)
Toronto native, Hoodo Hersi, is a New York-based comedian who is quickly making her mark across North America for her observational takes on race, politics and family.
Introduced to comedy by watching the David Chappelle Show, Hoodo is now 11 years deep in the game and counts making her late night television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers, being selected as a New Face: Canada at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, one of CBC’s 15 Comics to Watch, an Audible New Voice at SF Sketchfest, and writing on A24/Amazon’s untitled Ramy Youssef animated show among her major accomplishments.
She has performed alongside current and rising comedy starts like Hasan Minhaj, Lil Rel Howery, Roy Wood Jr., Nicole Byer, and Maria Bamford, and was featured in Sephora’s national “Get Lippie” lipstick campaign in partnership with Fashion Magazine, where she was profiled as one of the three Female Comedians Taking Canada by Storm Right Now.
More about Hoodo Hersi
What is your biggest professional achievement?
“Doing Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
What obstacles/challenges have you had to face to get to where you are today?
“My immigrant mother’s judgment on my comedy career.”
What’s something people should know about you?
“Comedians are essentially sad clowns.”
