Rolling Stone Revenge of the Nerd: Ayo Edebiri Breaks Out on ‘Big Mouth’
The standup and actor is bringing her brand of geeky comedy to the role of Missy and making her mark in a host of other projects
By Myles Loftin
Ayo Edebiri still remembers the first joke she ever told. She was in eighth grade and had just joined the improv team at her school in Boston. She was an anxious, nerdy teen, fond of writing fan fiction about Jacob Black from
Twilight eating hot dogs. Improv was not necessarily an obvious fit. Then she made a crack about why Christians’ favorite cheese was Swiss: “Because it’s holy,” she says, rolling her eyes. “For some reason, people thought that was really funny.” (For the record, this reporter laughed.)
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