![]() Since March 2018, Byer has hosted the Netflix original bake-off series Nailed It! alongside head judge chocolatier Jacques Torres. She appeared as a guest judge on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars. She played Lizette in season 5, episode 7 of the Freeform series Young & Hungry in 2017. īyer has guest-starred in several shows including BoJack Horseman, Transparent, and Bob's Burgers. As a commentator on the show Girl Code, she was described by Maitri Mehta at Bustle as a "beloved talking head" Stephanie Merry at The Washington Post called Byer "one of the most dependably funny commentators" on the show. That year, she had supporting roles on three shows: MTV's commentary show Girl Code a hidden camera prank show Ladylike, also on MTV and she was a series regular on the Fox show Party Over Here, a half-hour sketch comedy created by Paul Scheer and Lonely Island, which was cancelled after one season. She appeared in several roles on network television in 2016. In 2014, she hosted the first season of MTV's Are You the One? The Aftermatch Live, an after-show for Are You the One?. She tours the United States doing stand-up comedy and regularly performs improv with Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles.īyer began appearing on Girl Code on MTV in 2013. Byer graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy Certificate Program in Professional Performance. She continued with improv and sketch comedy for many years before starting her stand-up career in 2013. ![]() She then took classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade, starting improv and sketch comedy in June 2008, the same month that her father died. 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." '" 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 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. She worked there as a waitress for a restaurant and cabaret club. In 2021, Byer began co-hosting Wipeout with John Cena.īyer is the host of the Team Coco podcast Why Won't You Date Me?, the Earwolf podcast Best Friends co-hosted with Sasheer Zamata, and the Headgum podcast Newcomers.īyer's first full-length special, Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo), premiered on Netflix in December 2021 and earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.īyer was born in New Jersey and moved to New York City in the early 2000s. ![]() She also appeared in films, including Other People (2016), All About Nina (2018), Bad Hair (2020), and Valley Girl (2020). She made several guest appearances in such comedy series as 30 Rock (2012), Family Guy (2016), Transparent (2016–2017), The Good Place (2019), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2019–2021), and The Simpsons (2019). Byer later starred in the MTV/ Facebook Watch comedy series Loosely Exactly Nicole (2016–2018), which was based on her real life experiences. īyer gained recognition for her work in the commentary series Girl Code (2013). She is known as the host of the Netflix comedic reality bake-off series Nailed It! (2018–present), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Nicole Byer (born August 29, 1986) is an American comedian, actress, and television host. ![]()
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