![]() ![]() Just for Laughs can be a career-making platform for emerging stand-up comics, and for Liao, the 2023 edition was “the best time ever,” leading to a round of agency meetings that culminated in a UTA signing, and her TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. After the team there got her a tryout for the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival’s prestigious New Faces showcase, which many a comic pursues a spot in for years, she landed one in the second round of auditions. After making it her New Year’s resolution last year to begin building a digital presence, she’s seen that take off with clips going viral, also getting passed at the Hollywood Improv and securing new management at Levity Live. Raised in Orange County by Chinese immigrant parents, the Angeleno says that the last year has felt like a “cartoonish…Hollywood montage,” given how quickly things have evolved. When her new headlining tour kicks off in the new year, she’ll begin working as a comedian full-time. Since joining Netflix, Liao has put any and all free time toward her stand-up career, including time allotted for vacation, which, she says, is “why I’m very sleepy.”įortunately though, she’s gained so much traction on stage in such a remarkably short amount of time that she won’t be pulling double duty for much longer. “I didn’t want him to know me as just this employee who dabbles in stand-up.” “I tried to avoid at all costs at the office,” Liao admits. But while those in her immediate circle have always been “supportive,” she’s been cognizant during her time at the company of making sure that those overseeing comedy, including Vice President of Standup and Comedy Formats Robbie Praw, would meet her first as a comic. In point of fact, she’s welcomed co-workers, and even her boss to shows over the years. While working at Netflix, Liao says, she hasn’t actively hid her artistic aspirations.
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