Marina Franklin

ABOUT MARINA FRANKLIN

Comedian famous for her standup, writing, acting and hosting a podcast. She has performed standup around the world in clubs and festivals, including the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Scotland's Glasgow Comedy Festival, Rotterdam's Comedy Factory, and Montreal's Just For Laughs. In 2019, she released her comedy special Single Black Female.

She received degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Syracuse University . She made her first television appearance in 2004, on Best Week Ever.

She has acted in several television shows, including Chappelle's Show , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. She is the host of the Friends Like Us Podcast. She has appeared on WTF with Marc Maron, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes , and A Prairie Home Companion.

She has two sisters, Nailah O. Franklin, and Ashley Chappell.

She was in the movie Trainwreck, which was directed by Judd Apatow and stars Amy Schumer .