Ashley Nicole Black

Ashley Nicole Black is an American comedian, actress, and writer from Los Angeles, California. In 2016, she became a writer and correspondent for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. 2Early life and career Black grew up in Walnut, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Black graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2007 with a degree in theater arts. She then attended Northwestern University where she earned a master's degree in performance studies. Black was four years into a PhD program at Northwestern University when she decided to drop out and pursue her dream of working in comedy. Her comedy career began at the Second City, where she first attended an improv class that her parents paid for her to attend. Black earned an Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special in 2017 for her work as one of the writers on Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner special for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Overall, Black has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, once in 2016 and twice in 2017. In addition to her work on Full Frontal, Black has also appeared on Comedy Central's Drunk History and in the 2014 film An American Educatio