Loni Love
Loni Love is an American comedian and actress. While working as an electrical engineer in 2003, Love began to pursue a career in music engineering. She was the runnerup on Star Search 2006 and was named among the TopComics to Watch in both Variety and Comedy Central in 2009. She is currently one of the hosts of The Real talk show along with Jeannie Mai, Tamera Mowry, and Adrienne Bailon, which premiered on July 15, 2013.
Love was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the BrewsterDouglass Housing Projects. Prior to her career as a comedian, she was an electrical engineer, an experience she talks about in many of her acts. After graduating from high school in 1989, she had worked for a time on the General Motors assembly line putting doors on 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlasses, work which ignited her interest in electrical engineering. Love then received her bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Prairie View AampM University in Texas. While at Prairie View, she minored in music and was also a member of the Eta Beta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. It was there that she discovered standup comedy after winning a 50 competition and then performed frequently during her college life. After finding work as an engineer at Xerox in California, she continued to do standup after work in clubs and became a regular at the Laugh Factory. After eight years of working at Xerox, Love resigned to pursue comedy during a
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