Joyelle Nicole Johnson
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Joyelle Nicole Johnson is a US comedian known for bringing joy to the stage! Joyelle has performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, is the permanent guest host on Sirius XM's Godfrey Complex and is currently the warm up comic for Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act on Netflix.
In this episode we discuss:
- why American comedians are seriously considering leaving the US
- learning to tell brutal truths while still keeping the audience onside
- why nerves can be a sign of respect for the audience
- the night a heckler rushed the stage during her set in Harlem
- how artists can’t thrive creatively when they don’t feel safe
- why becoming a comedian requires “a little bit of delusion”
- and we find out if Joyelle is happy...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to the show. This is, oh, that rhymed, I feel terrible. |
| 0:28.7 | This is Stuart Goldsmith and welcome to the comedians, comedian podcast in which I take the heads of your favourite comedians and crack them open, |
| 0:34.3 | gently and with love to find out all about their creative processes, their resilience and so much more. |
| 0:41.0 | And today, it is the turn of Joyelle Nicole Johnson, who I first encountered at South by Southwest a few years ago. |
| 0:48.3 | She's a comedian from the US known for bringing joy to the stage. You'll know her from Late Night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:55.8 | She's the permanent guest host on Sirius XM's Godfrey Complex, and she's currently the warm-up comic for Hassan Menage's Patriot Act on Netflix. So in the first half of this episode, we're going to talk to Joyel about |
| 1:01.7 | and this one, I really should say this is one of those episodes where an aspect of Joyal's |
| 1:06.9 | life, which I didn't know at all. Really, it became all about, this conversation |
| 1:12.0 | becomes all about that aspect. And I can't wait to bring it to you. So we will talk about |
| 1:16.8 | family members seeing your stand-up persona for the first time. We'll talk about why American |
| 1:22.0 | comedians are seriously considering leaving the US. And this episode was recorded, something like eight or nine months ago. |
| 1:29.2 | So the political headwinds that we have now were just kind of really whipping up into a frenzy. |
| 1:35.9 | We'll learn about learning to tell brutal truths while still keeping the audience on side, |
| 1:40.6 | and why nerves can be a sign of respect for the audience. |
| 1:44.1 | There is more from this conversation with Joyelle on The Insiders Club, which you can join at on side and why nerves can be a sign of respect for the audience. |
| 1:48.4 | There is more from this conversation with Joyelle on The Insiders Club, which you can join at patreon.com.com.com for only £3 a month or more. You get instant ad-free access to the full |
| 1:55.1 | video and audio plus extra content with Joyel. A brand new format stew and a every week. The most recent one where |
| 2:01.9 | me doing a little before and after of a gig in Paris just outside the Eiffel Tower is now live. |
| 2:08.1 | Bonus extra, extra content like way back when in 2021. We had a live James Acaster Q&A. That |
| 2:14.4 | recording is up there as well. And you get a warm, fuzzy feeling. So patreon.com slash |
| 2:18.9 | concom pod for all of the extra content, but most importantly, the warm, fuzzy feeling. Here, at long last, |
| 2:25.3 | is Joelle Nicole Johnson. |
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