Born in Louisville Kentucky, comedienne Yvette Obiefule was destined for success. She packed her bags and headed for the big city lights! (Los Angeles). After graduating cosmetology school, her dream was to become a hair stylist to the stars. She had no idea that her bubbly, upbeat and hilarious personality would put her on a new career path. In the early 90’s, a friend dared Yvette to take her zany comedic antics to the stage at a local comedy club in Los Angeles. The shocking and overwhelming response ignited the bug! Yvette had been bitten and thus was birthed “Yvette the Funny Lady of Comedy”.
“I always liked making people laugh but, I didn’t really consider it as a career option until I hit the stage that night and people were really laughing hard. They wanted me to stay on stage and I wanted to stay but, I really didn’t have any more material because I had never done it before…so I just played it off and said my time is up”, laughs Yvette.
It was very early on in Yvette’s career, when she got the opportunity to open up for Cedric the Entertainer and it was this chance of a life time introduced and exposed her to the next level in comedy. That experience gave her great encouragement and she decided then that being a hairstylist had to take a back seat to her ultimate dream of becoming a professional stand-up comedienne. She would perform nearly every night to perfect her craft and quickly, Yvette the Funny Lady had become the talk of the town! Night after night, her high energy, show stopping performance would earn her standing ovations almost every time and the bookings were coming in!
Yvette discovered her niche in doing prop-style comedy. The unique blend of prop-style comedy and traditional comedy was a guaranteed hit. Many referred to her as the “Black “Carrot Top”. After several years in the business, Yvette’s hard work starts to pay off, gracing the stage with such artist as Mike Epps, Katt Williams, Luenelle, Michael Colyar, Jay Anthony Brown, and Eddie Griffin to name a few. Yvette has spent the last 18 years hosting and performing live stand-up from coast to coast and parts of Europe. She has been on Prank My Mom, BET Comic View, Showtime at the Apollo, Live in Hollywood, the Kings Gesture a local cable sketch comedy show and hundreds of venues including both State and Federal prison.
Yvette was the recipient of the 2009 Funniest Female Comedian award presented by veteran comedian Jay Anthony Brown. Yvette was also the winner of the 2008 Mic Awards for Best Comedian defeating comics Katt Williams, Luenelle, and Derek Ellis and in 2011, Yvette won a spot to perform on the ever popular Tom Joyner 7 day cruise where she brought the house to tears in laughter!
In addition to Yvette’s busy performance schedule, she hosts “What’s So Damn Funny” a very entertaining, comedy driven on line radio show based in Los Angeles, CA.