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Nannette Lee
Co-host KKDA's "Skip Murphy & Company."

 

Nanette Lee is one of Black comedy's fastest-rising, young comediennes!! When she's not on stage at the Improv or a like Dallas venue, you'll find Nanette gracing the airwaves of KKDA/K-104. In her Dallas, TX hometown, she has rapidly garnered reputations as queen of radio and queen of the city's comedy scene.

 

To watch Lee at work, handling both the microphone and her audience with professional ease and savvy by jabbing with good-natured humor and sometimes biting sarcasm, one would never guess that she grew up as the shyest of four children. Yet, her closest friends would always find themselves laughing with her while at school in Dallas.

 

Until a few years ago, she earned her living working as a drugstore clerk and selling children's clothing at a department store. But Lee, who had always loved comedy and radio, decided to trade her day jobs for a chance at fame. She began making the rounds at "Open Mic" nights at popular nightspots in Dallas/Fort Worth. Before long, her calendar filled up with engagements wherever there was a microphone and an audience looking for laughs, or where there was a comedy contest to enter.

 

Well positioned, Nanette's career took a towering launch. Not only can the hot talent be heard on stage, but she can be heard on the radio as well. Lee is the co-host of Dallas/Fort Worth's #1 morning radio show, Skip Murphy & Company, heard on KKDA/K-104. Over the years, Lee has received many awards, including the Improv's coveted "Funniest Female in Dallas" award in 1992. She was a finalist in the Zanies Comedy Competition Laff-Off in Nashville, and the Texas-based Funny Bone's "Best of the West Competition."

 

As her reputation grew, so did the demand for her talent. Lee began opening for some of the hottest comedy acts, performing with such big-named stars as George Wallace, Sinbad and Byron Allen. She has also worked with Kim Coles, Mark Curry, David Allen Grier, Shirley Hemphill and Marsha Warfield.

 

A natural actress, Lee has performed on stage in Straight Talk and The Night I Fell in Love. Her television credits include appearances on Dallas' ABC News, ShowTime at the Apollo, HBO's Def Comedy Jam and BET's Comic View.

 



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