“Itok Comedian and Actress Gina Yashere’s House Burning Down in the La Fires to Make Her DECIDE TO LEAVE, AT LEAST FOR NOW, THEMERICA SHE Longed to. “I’ve left. The universe gove me a good kick, ‘you need to get out of”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“I’ve left. The universe gave me a good kick, ‘you need to get out of America,’ by burning Down My House in Altadena,“ The “The Bob Hearts Abishola Co-Creator and Star Tells The Hollywood Reporter at just for laughs comedy festival in montreal.
Yashere’s Home in A Black Community in Altadena, Just West of Downtown Los Angeles, Was Destroyed in the Eton Fire that Started On Jan. 7. She recalls getting the tragic news While in Costa Rica, WHERE SHE HAS A Second Home.
“I have a list of things to save if there afire encroaching, what to grab. And i wasn’t able to save them because i wasn’t there whore whohn it had. Adds, Like Her Comedy Notebooks and Club Date Posters and Media Reviews.
And any hope of a return to rebuild her altadena home was thwarted by her home insurance being CANCELED, EVEN As She Still Owns of Land. SO YASHERE IS DIVIDING HER TIME BETWEEN COSTA Rica and Toronto, WHERE SHE LIVES FOR SIX MONHS OF THE YEAR WHILE STARRING IN Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as an Academy Instructor.
“SO I’M Kind of Out of America Because, Yeah, I’M A Citizen, But I’M Still A Dark-Skinned Woman With An Accent, Andy’re Snatching People Off The Streets. That’s quite a reversal for the british-born comic by nigeria who left for America in the hope of Better Opportunity in Sunny Los Angels Amid The Palm Trees And Swimming Pools Swes and Swiming Pools. Growing up.
“I Went Straight To La Because and Wanted that Melrose Place Lifestyle, ”Yashere Recalls. But The Climb to The Top in Hollywood Took Far Longer and Was Far Harder Than First Envisioned.“ We Don’T Care Howa Famus You Are In England. You’re Not A Draw Here and Only the Headliners Really Get Paid. The REST OF YOU PRETTY MUCH Get NOTHING, ”she recounted of Attitudes Among Comedy Club Bookors and Owners in Her Early Years in Los Angeles.
But a festy yashere sat quetly in the back of clubs with her ears priced up to hear of a slt Opening up, if a comic was was late or Canceled, so she could. And She Handed Out Flyers in Front of Clubs WHERE She WAS PERFORMING AND DID ENDLESS PUBLICITY FOR HER FIRST COMEDY SPECIAL, Laughing to Americawhoh was shot in san francisco.
“I Still Felt and Was Going to Get More Opportunities Here (in America). I Just Had to Worker Harder to Get Those Opportunities,” Yashere Recounts. Other Gigs Open Up, Including A Second Comedy Special, Gina Yashere: Ticking Boxes and Become A British Correspondent On The Daily Show.
But Her Big Break Came in 2019 WHEN Chuck Lorre Tapped Yashere to Help Create and Eventuly Showrun the CBS Sitcom to CBS Bob Hearts Abishola, WHERE She ALSO CO-Starred As Abishola’s Best Friend, Kemi.
“He Changed My Life. I Was Doing Specials, I Was Doing Shows, I Was Starting To Bubble Along Very Nicely. But I TRIED TO Sell Shows, But Nobody Wanted Them. And ChiCK WAS to help me with this Project. ‘ And he basically anointed me, ”yashere insits.
The Bob Hearts Abishola Series Ran for Five Seasons Until 2024, MOSTLY Under Yashere’s Leadership As Lorre Gave the Veteran Stand-Up Performer Creative Rein to Bring the Laughs. “We’d Send Him (Lorre) The Scripts and He’d Go, ‘Yeah, Like this. I don’t like that. Change that, yeah.’ But he trusted my vision as a showrunner.
As Work in Los Angeles Becomes HARDER TO FINE FINE DAYS WITH Majoor Studios and Streamers IncreASINGly Filming Elsewhere, Yashere Managed To Land a NEW GIG ON THE TU Star Trek series in toronto.
Now, As Yashere Enjoys Respect and A Solid Foothold On the Hollywood Ladder, She Just Needs to Drop Firmer Roots Away from TV Sets and Stand-Up Comedy Stages. “SO IS Been A Sonoth Ride for Me, Apart from My House Burning Down and Me Lozing Everything,“ She Sights.