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Nicole Byer on Breaking Boundaries and Believing That Every Comedian Bombs: ‘There’s No Shame in Adjusting a Joke’

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Nicole Byer never set out to be a host.For years, she was best known for being one of the hilarious comics on MTV’s “Girl Code” and later the star of “Loosely Exactly Nicole.” Fast forward to 2020, and she became the first Black woman nominated for outstanding host for a reality or competition program at the Primetime Emmys for Netflix’s “Nailed It!” Then, she was nominated again the following year.“Sometimes people are like, ‘It’s humbling.’ I was like, it’s not humbling.

It made me feel like, ‘Yes! I elevated hosting. I brought something very different to hosting and it was recognized,’ and it felt cool,” she tells Variety of the honor.The reality categories often highlight the same shows over and over — ie., “The Amazing Race” has been nominated 19 times.

But Byer hopes that maybe she could inspire change down the line. “Hopefully when someone is looking for a host, they don’t go, ‘Oh, let’s just go with what we know.’ Hopefully they’ll be like, oh, what about this brown woman, or this Black woman, or this Asian person,” she says. “Let’s bring something that people haven’t seen.

I’m hoping I just opened the door just a little bit wider for others to be able to do what I get to do.”When confronted with the thought that this year, she could be nominated in other categories, she can’t help but crack up: “Can you imagine?”Byer has been busy; she co-hosts multiple podcasts, co-hosts “Wipeout” with John Cena and stars in NBC’s “Grand Crew.” She’s hosted “Nailed It” since its 2018 debut — and it wasn’t easy in the beginning.“The first two seasons, a lot of it was me being like, ‘I have to read lines?’ I think they really played on the fact that I didn’t really know what was happening.

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