Nicole Byer (born August 29, 1986) is an American comedian, actress, and television host. She is known as the host of the

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series ''

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'' (2018–present), for which she has received four

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nominations. Byer gained recognition for her work in the commentary series ''

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'' (2013). Byer later starred in the

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comedy series ''

Loosely Exactly Nicole ''Loosely Exactly Nicole'' (stylized as ''*Loosely Exactly Nicole'') is an American comedy television series created by Christian Lander and Christine Zander that stars Nicole Byer and premiered on September 5, 2016, on MTV. After MTV cancelled t ...

'' (2016–2018), which was based on her real life experiences. She made several guest appearances in such comedy series as ''

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'' (2012), ''

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'' (2016), '' Transparent'' (2016–2017), ''

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'' (2019), ''

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'' (2019–2021), and ''

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'' (2019). She also appeared in films, including '' Other People'' (2016), ''

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'' (2018), '' Bad Hair'' (2020), and ''

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'' (2020). In 2021, Byer began co-hosting '' Wipeout'' with

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. Byer is the host of the

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podcast ''

Why Won't You Date Me? ''Why Won't You Date Me?'' is a comedy and relationship podcast hosted by Nicole Byer which debuted on December 1, 2017 on the HeadGum network. The podcast features Byer and a guest exploring why she is single, while discussing topics related to ...

,'' the

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podcast ''Best Friends'' co-hosted with

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, and the

podcast ''Newcomers''. Byer's first full-length special, ''Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo)'', premiered on

in December 2021 and earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.

Early life

Byer was born and raised in

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and moved to

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in the early 2000s. She worked there as a waitress for a restaurant and cabaret club. 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. You have to get out of here. You're very bad at this aiting tables'" 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 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." She then took classes at the

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, starting improv and sketch comedy in June 2008, the same month that her father died. She continued with improv and sketch comedy before starting her stand-up career in 2013. Byer graduated from the

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Certificate Program in Professional Performance.

Career

She tours the United States doing

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and regularly performs

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with

in Los Angeles.

TV

Byer began appearing on ''

'' on MTV in 2013. In 2014, she hosted the first season of MTV's ''Are You the One? The Aftermatch Live'', an

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for ''

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''. She appeared in several roles on network television in 2016. That year, she had supporting roles on three shows: MTV's commentary show ''

''; a

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prank show ''Ladylike'', also on MTV; and she was a series regular on the

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show ''

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'', a half-hour

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created by

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and

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, which was cancelled after one season. As a commentator on the show ''Girl Code'', she was described by Maitri Mehta at ''

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'' as a "beloved talking head"; Stephanie Merry at ''

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'' called Byer "one of the most dependably funny commentators" on the show. Early in her career, Byer learned to do her own makeup and hairstyling before performances, after experiences with on-set makeup artists and hairstylists unprepared to work with her skin tone and hair texture. Byer has guest-starred in several shows including ''

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'', '' Transparent'', and ''

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''. She played Lizette in season 5, episode 7 of the Freeform series ''

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'' in 2017. She appeared as a guest judge on the third season of '' RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars''.

''Nailed It!''

Since March 2018, Byer has hosted the

original bake-off series ''

'' alongside head judge

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. Each episode features three home bakers with a "terrible track record" attempting to recreate extremely complicated pastries for a $10,000 prize. Byer received a nomination for the

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four times (2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023). She is the first Black woman to be nominated in the category. Because her comedy is "not kid-friendly", her commentary is edited to create the "feel-good G-rated comedy" that the show is known for. An entire season is shot in only 13 days.

''Loosely Exactly Nicole''

In 2016,

premiered ''

'', a scripted,

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comedy written and starring Byer, based on her life. Madeleine Davies at ''

Jezebel Jezebel ()"Jezebel"
(US) and

'' described the show's premise as a "comedic look on yer'slife as a black actress struggling to make it in Hollywood." ''Loosely Exactly Nicole'' premiered September 5, 2016, on MTV. It was later cancelled after one season. Shortly after, it was picked up by Facebook Watch for a second season.

''Wipeout''

Since 2023, Byer has been the co-host of '' Wipeout'' with

on TBS.

Podcasts

Byer is the host of four podcasts: ''Why Won't You Date Me?, Best Friends!, 90 Day Bae,'' and ''Newcomers.''

''Why Won't You Date Me?''

In December 2017, Byer launched a weekly podcast ''

'' on the

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podcast network. Each episode features a guest, typically another comedian, with whom Byer converses openly about her limited dating history, past sexual experiences, and frustration with being single. The guest also critiques her

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profile. Byer concludes each show by asking the guest host if they would date her. Past guests include her very close friend

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, and

Brooks Wheelan Brooks Wheelan (born August 21, 1986) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster. First breaking through as a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' during the 2013–2014 season, Whe ...

. Critics have referred to the show as "bold" and "refreshing." In 2021, the show left HeadGum to join

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podcast network. In 2024, the show was back to HeadGum and acquired by them.

''Best Friends!''

In 2019, Byer, alongside Sasheer Zamata, launched a podcast on the

podcast network, ''Best Friends'', a weekly podcast in which the two ruminate on the nature of friendship. The same year, Byer joined comedian and actor Mano Agapion as a co-host on the ''

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'' recap podcast ''Drag Her'', and became a cohost of the '' 90 Day Fiance'' recap podcast ''90 Day Bae'' with Marcy Jarreau.

''Newcomers''

In 2020, Byer launched a weekly podcast, ''Newcomers'', on the

podcast network alongside

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, in which the two friends watch films for the first time and comment on their feelings on each movie as newcomers to the series. Each episode features a guest who provides more background on the series and characters. Past guests have included

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, and

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. Season one covered the ''

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'' franchise and ''

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'' in the second. The third season explored

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's body of work and the fourth goes through the ''

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'' franchise, with a new co-host,

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as a guide. The fifth season covered selections from the

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and a sixth season has Byer and Lapkus experiencing various

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films.

Book

Her first book ''#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini'' was released in 2020. The book features over 100 photos of Byer in

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s with much of the book written through captions, making it both a comedy book and a

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. Byer has explained the long title, "I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to #1, share my impressive bikini collection and my hot body with the world, and #2, help other people feel #brave by embracing their body as it is." The title began as a joke hashtag on

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, making fun of the way people often comment on photos of fat women wearing relatively little clothing as, 'You're so brave.'

Other work

In 2013, Byer and

created and starred in a web series called ''Pursuit of Sexiness'' which was produced by

. In 2018, she appeared in a

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ad campaign with actor

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Comedic style

On The Ringer, Allison P. Davis described Byer's comedy: "Most easily compared to a raunchier

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with a hint of

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's madcap energy. She's mouthy, vulgar, a little bit goofy, relatable but ridiculously charming, and not afraid to infuse her broad comedy with a confident sexuality." Writing for ''

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'', Jaleesa M. Jones said that "it's precisely yer'sbrazen, ribald brand of comedy that landed her in the creative incubator that is MTV, where she toplines two new comedy shows in 2016, ''Ladylike'' and ''Loosely Exactly Nicole''". Byer described

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, and

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as her early inspirations.

Personal life

Byer supports

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and stated in an interview with Brit+Co, "Body positivity, to me, means you accept the body that you're in... And if you want to change it, you can, but you should love the skin that you're in currently, forever. Because everyone is beautiful. No one's truly ugly. You're always beautiful to somebody, and you're always ugly to somebody." On her

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, Byer has said that she "doesn't identify as

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", but is uncomfortable with the labels "bisexual" or "queer." She has stated on her podcast ''

'' that she is open to dating people of any gender, and has dated men and women in the past. She lives in Los Angeles with her two rescue dogs named Clyde and Charlie. She previously lived with fellow comedian

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. Byer was diagnosed with

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as an adult.

Filmography

Film

Television

Podcasts

Web series

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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