Life and career

Love was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the Brewster-Douglass 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 bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M 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 stand-up 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 stand-up 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 layoff to prevent someone else from losing their job. Recently Love did a show on VH1 called I love the 2000s which she gives her view on 2000-2009's pop culture highlights and became a Roundtable panelist for her friend and fellow comic Chelsea Handler.

Love started her comedic career in 2004, after appearing on Star Search, reaching the finals and losing in a close competition to the winner. Since then, she has appeared in films and numerous television shows. She has also acted in dramatic theatre plays. Love was named "Hot Comic" for 2009 in Campus Activity magazine and one of the "Top 10 Comics to Watch" in both Variety and Comedy Central. She was awarded the Jury Prize for best stand-up at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival. In 2008 Love became the CNN correspondent for D. L. Hughley Breaks the News and covered the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She also appears regularly in comedy clubs and the college comedy circuit. In late 2009, Love recorded her first one-hour Comedy Central special, America's Sister, which aired on May 8, 2010. In 2013, Loni released her first comedy advice book titled "Love Him Or Leave Him But Don't Get Stuck With The Tab". It was published by Simon and Schuster. In 2015, she appeared in the comedy film Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, with Kevin James, and the action film Bad Asses on the Bayou, with Danny Trejo and Danny Glover.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2016	Mother's Day	Kimberly
2015	Bad Asses on the Bayou	Carmen
2015	Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2	Donna Ericone
2014	Gutshot Straight	Ms. Love
2014	Bad Asses	Carmen
2004	Soul Plane	Shaniece
	With or Without You	Waitress
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	American Dad!	Iris	Guest star (1 episode)
2014	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Herself	Recurring Guest star & DJ
2014	I Love the 2000s	Herself
2013-present	The Real	Co-Host
2012	Bethenny
2011	Whitney	Nurse
2011	Kickin' It	Marge	Recurring
2011-2013	After Lately	Herself
2010	The Gossip Queens
2009	Wildest TV Show Moments
	D. L. Hughley Breaks the News
2008	GSN Live
	Phineas and Ferb		Carl's Saleswoman Disguise
2008-2014	Chelsea Lately
2008-2014	TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest...
2008	Chocolate News
	Comics Unleashed
2006	Thick and Thin	Viola	Series regular
2005	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Herself	Featured comic
	Weekends at the DL		Panelist
	Cuts	Pepper	Guest star (1 episode)
2004-2007	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	Lunch Lady	Recurring
2004	Girlfriends	Guest star (1 episode)
	Redlight, Greenlight	Herself	Series host
	Premium Blend
2003-2004	Hollywood Squares
2003	Star Search		Finalist
	I Love the '70s		Series regular
	I Love the '80s Strikes Back

[ Source: Wikipedia ]