Josh Johnson is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comedian, actor, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He is one of the newest correspondents on Comedy Central’s Emmy & Peabody Award-winning program The Daily Show, where he was previously a writer for six years. Johnson is also a former writer and performer on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut in 2017. As a stand-up, Johnson has been paying to sold out audiences in theaters and clubs around the country. In 2016, he was a “New Face” at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, in 2018 he was the winner of the “New York's Funniest” competition at the New York Comedy Festival, and in 2021, he was named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch.” Johnson’s most recent stand-up special, Josh Johnson: Up Here Killing Myself, premiered on Peacock in 2023 to rave reviews touting Josh as a “naturally gifted story teller.” Comedy Central released Johnson’s first hour-long special # (Hashtag) in June 2021. Johnson’s other credits include CONAN (TBS), @Midnight, Kevin Hart's Hart of The City, The New Negroes, This Week at The Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central, and @fter Midnight on CBS. Johnson lives in New York, but you can catch him on his Sophomore Tour across the country.