As one of North America’s top comedians, parts of Andrea Jin immigrant story are woven throughout her sets, or what it was like to be an Asian kid growing up in a predominantly white society.
Her daring comedy special Grandma’s Girl jumps to different chapters of Jin’s life, where she examines her identity as an Asian woman through smart self-deprecating comedy. It starts with dissecting the family unit, but moves into pop culture criticism with sets like “Asians are in Movies Now”.
Andrea Jin: Andrea Jin is a stand-up comedian and writer born in Shanghai, and currently based in Los Angeles. She made her late night TV debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden October of 2022. She was selected as New Face at Just for Laugh’s Montreal Festival in 2021 and again as part of Patton Oswalt’s gala at Montreal the following year. Andrea is a staff writer on Andy Samberg’s show at Comedy Central (Digman!). She has performed at Moontower Comedy Festival, JFL Northwest, JFL Toronto, SiriusXM’s Top Comic, Seattle International Comedy Competition, CBC’s The Debaters, and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Her writing has been featured on Vice, Vulture, and CBC Comedy among other publications.
You can hear her on JFL’s Best of the West Comedy Album and on her solo Juno Award-winning comedy album ‘Grandma’s Girl’ which is available to stream.
