"Funniest Comedian JANINE BRITO vs PAUL BRITTAIN"

Janine Brito is an American stand-up comic, actor and writer. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene, she is recognized nationally as a writer and on-air correspondent for the television program Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, which premiered on FX in 2012 and was cancelled early in its second season due to a drop in ratings after the series was moved to FX's spin-off network FXX. She joined the comedy series One Day at a Time on Netflix in the show's third season as both a writer and an actor. Brito was born in Florida, though she went on to attend junior high school in Scotland and Hong Kong and high school in Kentucky. She is of Cuban and Icelandic descent and spoke only Spanish before kindergarten. After high school, Brito moved to St. Louis to pursue a business degree at the Washington University in St. Louis. Once she graduated from college, she remained in St. Louis and launched her comedy career. Though she was politically active in college with the student and labor rights movement, her comedy wasn't explicitly political at first. Eventually, she moved to Oakland specifically for the city's comedy scene and reputation for fostering progressive comics. It was in Oakland that she honed her focus on identity politics and decided to take more risks in her act, such as adopting her signature androgynous style. Shortly after moving to the Bay Area around 2008, Brito met comic W. Kamau Bell. Bell quickly became a mentor to Brito, taking her under his wing as his “comedy daughter." In 2010, she joined Bell and fellow comic Nato Green in Laughter Against the Machine, a political comedy tour that was subsequently made into a documentary set to premiere in 2014. In 2012, Bell invited Brito to join the writing staff of his new FX series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In addition to writing on the series, Brito frequently appeared on air in pieces covering topics like Miss Fire Island, LGBTQ athletes, and the "war on women." In 2019, Brito joined the comedy web television series One Day at a Time as both a writer and an actor. She also had a small part in Amy Poehler's feature-film directorial debut, Wine Country. In May 2019, Brito performed as a stand-up comedian on Late Night with Seth Meyers. She is a writer on the animated comedy series Bless the Harts, starring Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig.

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Paul Brittain (born February 16, 1977) is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2010–2012. Brittain was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois. He graduated from Naperville North High School in 1995. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he majored in finance and Spanish, graduating in 2000. He is a veteran performer at the iO Theater in Chicago where he trained with SNL castmate Vanessa Bayer and performed as a member with numerous improv and sketch groups. He has appeared on Sports Action Team. Brittain is the nephew of actor Bob Newhart.

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