SAM JAY at Empire Comedy Club

6pm Doors | 7pm Show | 21+

Stand-up comic, actor, and Emmy-nominated writer Sam Jay can currently be seen as the host of HBO’s  Pause with Sam Jay, a weekly late-night series on which she also served as executive producer. Sam’s next stand up special, Sam Jay: Salute Me or Shoot Me, will premiere on HBO on September 23rd. 

She can currently be seen in her stand out role opposite Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus  in the Kenya Barris-directed feature film, You People, now streaming on Netflix. She can also be seen on  the Peacock series Bust Down, which she co-created with co-stars Langston Kerman, Jak Knight, and Chris  Redd. Sam is a two-time Emmy nominee and WGA award nominee for her writing on Saturday Night Live.  In 2018, she wrote for The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards, and in 2020  she wrote for the BET Awards. Sam was named as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch in 2018, and a  Comedy Central Comic to Watch in 2015.  

Earlier this year, Sam was named a BET Her Awards Pride Honoree. Sam was recently featured both on and  off camera as the “Voice of God” announcer at the 2022 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC. Earlier in  the same year, Sam recorded a set as part of Netflix’s Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, along with  Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Billy Eichner, and Eddie Izzard—now streaming on Netflix. In 2020, Sam  debuted her first one-hour stand up special Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning on Netflix. In 2019, Sam made her  Netflix debut on The Comedy Lineup and released her album Donna’s Daughter through Comedy Central  Records. In 2017, Sam was a standout of the Just For Laughs: New Faces showcase; made her late night  debut on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!; and released her Comedy Central Presents half hour to rave reviews.  Sam has performed internationally at comedy clubs and festivals including the Vodafone Dublin Comedy  Festival, Bumbershoot Festival, 208 Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Portland’s Bridgetown  Festival, The Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival, Boston’s Women In Comedy Festival, among  others. 

Sam’s TV credits include her hosting role on Ricking Morty, the Rick and Morty post-show on Adult Swim. 

Additional TV credits include The Eric Andre Show; HBO Max’s That Damn Michael Che; MTV’s SafeWord;  a recurring role on TV Land’s Nobodies; Starz’s Take My Wife, Comedy Central’s White Flight, Crank  Yankers, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, and Broad City; and Viceland’s Party Legends and  Flophouse.  

Sam is originally from Boston and currently resides in New York.