VIDEO: New THE DAILY SHOW Correspondent Jaboukie Young-White Discusses Why Young People Don't Vote

By: Oct. 12, 2018
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Jaboukie Young-White, The Daily Show's newest correspondent and actual young person, breaks down what's keeping young people away from the voting booth.

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Yesterday, THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH added Young-White as the latest correspondent to join "The World's Fakest News Team" which includes Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan and Roy Wood Jr. Young-White was tapped by Executive Producer, Writer and Host, Trevor Noah.

Young-White (@jaboukie) is a comedian and filmmaker from Chicago. He appeared in the Sony feature film Rough Night directed by Lucia Aniello and the Netflix feature film Set It Up directed by Claire Scanlon. Most recently, Young-White was named one of Variety's 2018 10 Comics to Watch and performed at the Comics to Watch showcase at the 2018 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. He has performed stand-up on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON on two occasions and can be seen on the upcoming season of HBO's series Crashing. In 2017, Young-White was selected as a Comic to Watch at the New York Comedy Festival, was named as one of the Comedians You Should and Will Know by Vulture/New York Magazine, was selected as an Up Next comedian at Comedy Central's inaugural Clusterfest, and was tapped as one of Rolling Stone's 25 Under 25. Previously, Young-White was a staff writer on Netflix's American Vandal and just finished as a story editor on season three of Netflix's hit animated series Big Mouth.



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