In 2021, Blue auditioned for season sixteen of America's Got Talent, where he got four yeses from the judges and was able to advance through the live rounds. īlue also appeared in the sports based comedy 108 Stitches in 2014. He appeared in Ron White's Las Vegas Salute to the Troops 2013 as part of the opening act. īlue was voted the 11th best comedian by viewers in Comedy Central's Stand-up Comedy Showdown 2011. Josh was voted the 13th best comedian by viewers in Comedy Central's Stand-up Comedy Showdown 2010.īlue appeared in Boulder band Rose Hill Drive's music video "The Psychoanalyst". He appeared in the 2009 low-budget horror film Feast III: The Happy Finish.
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His other television credits include Live with Regis and Kelly, Comics Unleashed, plus numerous appearances on Fox, CBS, ABC, and MSNBC. Īfter winning the 2006 season of NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing, he was the first comedian to do stand-up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Blue won $10,000 for finishing in first place at 2004 Las Vegas Comedy Festival's 2004 Royal Flush Comedy Competition. He has appeared several times on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia.
In 2002, he won the prestigious Comedy Works New Faces contest. Audiences reacted enthusiastically to his self-deprecating humor, and Blue started making a name for himself on the comedy circuit. A bewildered crowd threw him bananas and peanuts anyway, to which Josh quips, "that was the best day I ate in Senegal!" Career īlue got his start in comedy doing open mic sets while attending The Evergreen State College. At one point for a joke on a busy weekend, Josh locked himself in an empty animal exhibit for eight hours. ĭuring college, he went back to Africa to volunteer as an intern at Parc de Hahn, a zoo in Senegal. He began his career as a comedian while seeking a creative writing degree at The Evergreen State College. Blue grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from Como Park Senior High School in 1997. Blue was born in Cameroon where his father, Walter Blue, was a professor of Romance languages at Hamline University teaching during a mission.