7 Black Female Comics To Check Out Before They Blow Up

Ketra Long, IG: @KetraLong

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Long brings a no holds barred, endearingly unedited voice to the LA community. An observational/personal comic, she’s just as quick to make fun of others as she is herself, admitting that, due to her height, kids in her neighborhood named her “Little man.” Some years ago, Long battled and beat breast cancer. She jokes on stage that her first thought when diagnosed was, “How am I going to have breast cancer if I ain’t got no breasts?” She has great material about her family, too. “My dad tried to out-cancer me…I was two weeks out of remission. My dad called me and said, ‘Baby girl, they said I got the cancer too…they said I got it from you…’ I said, ‘What kind of cancer you got?’ He said, ‘Uh…ovarian.’” Long has appeared on Amazon Prime’s “Laugh After Dark,” and will soon release the web series she created called “Bearded.”