LA-based comedian Marcella Arguello is a fearless writer and performer, whose comedy tackles subjects including race, politics, gender and pop culture in her comedy. She is the host of Women Crush Wednesdays, a weekly show at The Hollywood Improv Lab, and her debut album The Woke Bully debuted at No 3 on the Billboard Comedy Charts. Time Out LA marked her as one of their ‘Comedians to Watch 2017’, and she has been featured on a host of other lists of both rising and established talent.
Arguello’s stand-up career has seen her tour across the US, and open for comedians including Felipe Esparza, Nico Santos and Hasan Minhaj. She has performed at New York Comedy Festival, Riot LA Comedy Festival, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival among others, as well as travelling to entertain American troops posted overseas. In 2009, she was presented with a MAMA award for Best Comedian.
On television, she made her debut on NBC’s Last Call With Carson Daly in 2015, and has gone on to appear in Comedy Central’s Corporate, TruTV’s Comedy Knockout and Trivial Takedown on Fuse. She also made regular appearances on and was six times winner of @midnight, Chris Hardwick’s late night panel show on Comedy Central, and her stand-up has been featured on 2 Dope Queens on HBO and Night Train with Wyatt Cenac on Starz.
As a writer, she has worked on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves The World and Drop The Mic on CBS. Arguello has been listed by MSN.com as one of the ‘Top female comedians working in film and television today’ and was top of Vulture.com’s list of ‘Comedians you should and will know’. Her Twitter account garners regular media attention and has been featured by TIME, CNN and Comedy Central.