Crystal Marie Denha

Before the stand-up, there was sports news. Crystal Marie Denha first built an audience online as host and producer of The Fumble, a viral sports news channel, and she worked as a sports and entertainment reporter for Extra, HLN's The Daily Share and Hollyscoop.

Crystal comes from Detroit and is based in Los Angeles, where she performs regularly at the city's major clubs. Her material draws on growing up as a first generation Iraqi American, and she has opened for Jay Leno, Russell Peters and Maz Jobrani while headlining clubs of her own across the country.

Her screen work includes the Punk'd reboot hosted by Chance the Rapper, where she was a recurring prankster, plus Comics Unleashed and Fuse's We Need to Talk About America. She acted alongside Shameik Moore, Adam Brody and Susan Sarandon in the comedy The Gutter, which premiered at SXSW in 2024. That same year she was a featured artist at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival.