Holly Walker is an American comedian, actress, and writer known for her role as a correspondent and staff writer on ''

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore ''The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore'' is a 2015–16 American late-night panel talk show hosted by Larry Wilmore that aired for two seasons on Comedy Central. The show was a spin-off of ''The Daily Show'', which featured Wilmore as a recurri ...

''. Prior to working on ''The Nightly Show'', she toured with

The Second City The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre op ...

comedy group, performing in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Las Vegas. Walker got her first taste of performing when she was eight years old and was cast in a production called "For Spring is the Season of Happiness," playing Mother Nature. As an adult, she performed with

Boom Chicago Boom Chicago is an international creative group, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that writes and performs sketch and improvisational comedy at their theater on the Rozengracht.

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