Janelle Draper

Janelle Draper is a bicoastal comedian, actress, writer and producer. She’s been described as unapologetic, uncensored and unladylike. She started doing stand-up in LA when she was an NBC Page working on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” She headlines all over the country and was named Winner of the Los Angeles-based Burbank Comedy Festival and Runner-up of the Boston Comedy Festival. Janelle performs for the troops overseas, crushes corporate events for big brands and opens for comedy legends such as Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Jeffrey Ross, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Haddish, and many more. She is a regular commentator on SiriusXM Raw Dog Comedy and is a producer on the documentary “Anxiety Club” featuring Mark Normand, Joe List, and Marc Maron, just to name a few. She has performed at the iconic Wilbur Theater in Boston three times and had her TV debut on the offbeat comedy channel IFC. Janelle has been featured on a plethora of prestigious comedy festivals including the San Francisco Sketchfest, Laughing Skull, HBO’s Women in Comedy, and several of the country’s best ones in a multitude of states, including Vegas, Atlanta, Rhode Island, Vermont, North Carolina, and Alaska. Lastly, she's the first and only comedian to sign an overall licensing deal with Bumble, where she wrote, performed, and filmed multiple image spots for their social media platforms, which garnered 4 billion views. She is originally from Boston but only has an accent when drinking Chaaah-dawn-nay.