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Jourdain Fisher is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for 50 Cent’s BET sketch comedy series, 50 Central, appeared on After Midnight, and performed stand-up on both Comedy Central and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His debut self-produced hour Bits & Pieces premiered exclusively on 800 Pound Gorilla’s new streaming service, Gorilla Comedy+, in May 2026 with a worldwide YouTube release slated for June 2026. Fisher sat down with me over Zoom to talk about the economics of stand-up comedy today, how much the comedy landscape has changed in the decade since he moved to New York City from North Carolina, how his Tonight Show debut led to a writing gig for Fallon inside 30 Rock, how the pandemic brought him back to Carolina but also gave birth to his social-media character, “Gangster Chef,” and why he doesn’t do Southern accents much in his stand-up but will pull out a killer Trump impersonation. There’s a lot to get to, so let’s get to it!

Watch Jourdain Fisher: Bits & Pieces now on Gorilla Comedy+

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Here was Fisher’s late-night TV debut on Fallon in November 2018, which led to him getting a writing job on Fallon in early 2019:

Fisher told me how the early response to his Instagram videos, posted before that platform leaned hard into Reels, had inspired him to do more with his “Gangster Chef” character, which he created out of boredom during th eearly pandemic.

To wit, this first post on May 29, 2020:

Compared to his Reels in late 2024 and early 2025, which ballooned from hundreds of thousands of views to 2 million to 16.3 million views for his take on chicken parm in March 2025:

“Let me see what happens if I really try to do this, and hire a videographer and like, go for it. And is just kind of blew up. There’s a lot of people, that’s their first impression of me, so I have to like train people to be like, hey, so I’m also a comedian, by the way.”

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