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Josh Blue

Josh Blue is an American comedian born on November 27, 1978. He won the fourth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing (airing May-August 2006) when viewers voted for their favorite comic. Many of Blue's hilarious anecdotes center around his cerebral palsy.

Early Life

When Blue was born in Cameroon, his father, Walter Blue, was serving as a professor of Romance languages at Hamline University. Blue graduated from Como Park Senior High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1997. He started his career as a comedian at Evergreen State College, earning a degree in creative writing.

In college, he went back to Africa to intern at the Senegalese zoo Parc de Hahn. Josh once locked himself in an empty animal exhibit for eight hours as a joke on a busy weekend. Still, people who didn't understand him threw him bananas and peanuts. Josh says, "That was the best day I ate in Senegal."

Career

Blue started doing stand-up comedy as a student at Evergreen State College. Blue's jokes about himself were a big hit with the crowds, and he began to get known on the comedy circuit. In 2002, he triumphed in the Comedy Works New Faces competition. He has been on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia more than once. During the 2004 Las Vegas Festival, Blue won $10,000 at the Royal Flush Comedy Competition.

As the first-ever winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he made history when he did so in 2006. Aside from Live with Regis and Kelly and Comics Unleashed, he has also been on Fox, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC many times.

In 2009, he appeared in the low-budget horror flick Feast III: The Happy End. The people who watched Comedy Central's Stand-up Comedy Showdown 2010 voted Josh the 13th best comedian. In the 2011 Stand-up Comedy Showdown on Comedy Central, viewers picked Blue as the 11th best comedian.

At Ron White's 2013 Las Vegas Tribute to the Military, he performed as part of the show's opening performance. In 2014, Blue was in the sports-themed comedy 108 Stitches.

Blue tried out for season 16 of America's Got Talent in 2021. Four judges said "yes," so he moved on to the live rounds. Blue finished the season in third place, behind the acrobat Aidan Bryant and the magician Dustin Tavella.

Blue was on America's Got Talent: All-Stars in 2023. In the preliminary round, he came in third, behind previous winners Brandon Leake and Kodi Lee.