Jaye McBride
Jaye McBride is an American stand-up comedian and graphic novel artist. She became the first openly transgender American comedian to perform at Madison Square Garden, opening for Louis C.K. in 2021. In 2015, she gave a TEDx Albany talk called Trans 102: Life After Transition, about steps toward understanding and equality for the transgender community. In 2022, Vulture named her on its list of Comedians You Should and Will Know.
McBride grew up Catholic in Westport, New York, one of four boys, and loved stand-up from a young age. She performed at a school talent show in seventh grade and later earned a double major in math and psychology from the University at Albany, where she began stand-up in 2009. She met Aziz Ansari in 2015 and later opened for him on tour.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2017 and then to New York in 2018. That year she became the first transgender comic to be a regular at Broadway Comedy Club in New York City, and in 2019 she joined the Comedy Cellar roster as the first transgender comic there. In 2021, she was part of Just For Laughs in Montreal’s New Faces of Comedy lineup. In 2022, she performed on Amy Schumer’s Parental Advisory show at Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Her first stand-up special, Daddy’s Girl, was released in 2023. She has written for Inside Amy Schumer and Life & Beth, and for Lizz Winstead’s Lady Parts Justice; she also performed on Vagical Mystery Tour in 2017. Her graphic novel Amelia was published in 2024. McBride transitioned in 2007 and uses she/her pronouns. She lives in New York.
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