Booking Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales Biography

Comedian, actress, and radio personality Amanda Seales, AKA Amanda Diva, was born in 1981 in California. Amanda spent her early childhood in Inglewood, before the family moved to Orlando, Florida in 1989. After graduating from Dr. Phillips High School, Seales earned her master’s degree in African-American studies at Columbia University in New York, where she also began her acting career.

Amanda’s earliest roles include a small one in the movie Cop and a Half (1993) and appearances on a number of television shows, including My Brother and Me (1994), Def Poetry Jam (2002), the HBO series Insecure (2016), and her own VJ show on MTV2, Sucker Free Countdown. In 2016, she launched the truTV show Greatest Ever, appearing as the show’s host; later that same year Amanda added stand-up comedy to her entertainment repertoire.

As her acting and comedy career was on the rise, Amanda also began to perform and record her own music, releasing a debut EP, Life Experience, in 2007. The EP Spandex, Rhymes, & Soul followed in 2009, and then Madame Monochrome in 2011. All were self-released via digital download. Between 2008 and 2012, Amanda Seales also appeared as a guest artist on a number of singles, including: “Get Right” and “Blvd Broad” (with Johnny Polygon on his album Rebel Without Applause); “Beautiful Things” (with Kenichiro Nishihara on her album LIFE); and “Proud 2 Be” (with N.O.R.E., on the album Crack on Steroids.)

Amanda Seales most recently began hosting the comedy competition series Bring the Funny on NBC. She appears alongside co-hosts and judges Jeff Foxworthy, Chrissy Teigen, and Kenan Thompson. Seales also debuted her first stand-up comedy special on the HBO network; I Be Knowin’ aired for the first time on January 26, 2019.