{"id":7880,"count":1,"description":"Loni Love\u00a0(born July 14, 1967) is an American comedian, Emmy and NAACP Image Award-winning talk show host, actress, TV personality, author, and former electrical engineer.\n\nAfter graduating high school, she worked for a time on the\u00a0General Motors\u00a0assembly line putting doors on 1993\u00a0Oldsmobile Cutlasses, work which ignited her interest in electrical engineering.\u00a0She then received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from\u00a0Prairie View A&M University\u00a0in\u00a0Texas. She started doing stand-up during her college years.\n\nShe found work as an engineer at\u00a0Xerox\u00a0in California and she continued to do stand-up after work in clubs and became a regular at the\u00a0Laugh Factory.\u00a0After eight years of working at Xerox, Love resigned to pursue comedy during a layoff to prevent someone else from losing their job.\n\nLove did a series on\u00a0VH1\u00a0called\u00a0I Love the 2000s\u00a0in which she gives her view on pop culture highlights. She was also a panelist in the late-night talk show\u00a0Chelsea Lately. Love also appeared in an episode of Supermarket Sweep on July 24, 2000.\n\nLove started her comedic career in 2003, after appearing on\u00a0Star Search, reaching the finals and was chosen runner-up in a close competition to winner John Roy. She was awarded the Jury Prize for best stand-up at the 2003\u00a0US Comedy Arts Festival. Since then, she has appeared in films and numerous television shows.\n\nIn 2008 Love became the\u00a0CNN\u00a0correspondent for\u00a0D. L. Hughley Breaks the News\u00a0and covered the inauguration of President\u00a0Barack Obama. Love was named \"Hot Comic\" for 2009 in\u00a0Campus Activity\u00a0magazine and one of the \"Top 10 Comics to Watch\" in both\u00a0Variety\u00a0and Comedy Central. In late 2009, Love recorded her first one-hour Comedy Central special,\u00a0America's Sister, which aired on May 8, 2010. In July 2013, she released her first comedy advice book titled \"Love Him Or Leave Him But Don't Get Stuck With The Tab\".\n\nFrom July 15, 2013 to June 3, 2022, Love served as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show\u00a0The Real\u00a0originally alongside\u00a0Adrienne Bailon,\u00a0Tamar Braxton,\u00a0Jeannie Mai, and\u00a0Tamera Mowry. In 2018, Love and her\u00a0Real\u00a0co-hosts won the\u00a0Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host\u00a0for their work.\n\nIn 2015, she appeared in the comedy film\u00a0Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, with\u00a0Kevin James, and the action film\u00a0Bad Asses on the Bayou, with\u00a0Danny Trejo\u00a0and\u00a0Danny Glover. In 2016, she appeared as a contestant on the ninth season\u00a0of Worst Cooks in America, competing for $50,000 for her chosen charity.\n\nIn 2020 during the\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic, Love hosts a show on\u00a0Instagram Live\u00a0under the hashtag #quarantinewithloni. Since January 2021, Love has been a recurring guest judge on Season 13 of\u00a0Rupaul's Drag Race.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/loni-love\/","name":"Loni Love","slug":"loni-love","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=7880"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}