Loni Love
Known for: Acting
Loni Love (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. After graduating high school, she worked for a time on the General Motors assembly line putting doors on 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlasses, work which ignited her interest in electrical engineering. She then received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University in Texas. She started doing stand-up during her college years. She found work as an engineer at Xerox in California and 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. Love did a series on VH1 called I Love the 2000s in which she gives her view on pop culture highlights. She was also a panelist in the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately. Love also appeared in an episode of Supermarket Sweep on July 24, 2000. Love started her comedic career in 2003, after appearing on Star 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 US Comedy Arts Festival. Since then, she has appeared in films and numerous television shows. In 2008 Love became the CNN correspondent for D. L. Hughley Breaks the News and covered the inauguration of President Barack Obama. 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. In late 2009, Love recorded her first one-hour Comedy Central special, America'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". From July 15, 2013 to June 3, 2022, Love served as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real originally alongside Adrienne Bailon, Tamar Braxton, Jeannie Mai, and Tamera Mowry. In 2018, Love and her Real co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work. 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. In 2016, she appeared as a contestant on the ninth season of Worst Cooks in America, competing for $50,000 for her chosen charity. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Love hosts a show on Instagram Live under the hashtag #quarantinewithloni. Since January 2021, Love has been a recurring guest judge on Season 13 of Rupaul's Drag Race.
Filmography
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
American Dad!
Iris (voice)
2005
Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Series
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Series
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
2009
Series
Hell's Kitchen
Self - Restaurant Patron
2005
Series
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
2019
Series
Girlfriends
Woman
2000
Series
25 Words or Less
Self
2018
Series
Beat Bobby Flay
Self
2013
Series
After Midnight
Self
2024
Series
To Tell the Truth
Self - Panelist
2016
Series
Pictionary
2022
Series
Match Game
Self - Panelist
2016
Series
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Rose, the Lunch Lady
2004
Series
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Self - Contestant
2021
Series
Worst Cooks in America
2010
Series
Worst Cooks in America
Self - Contestant
2010
Series
Kickin' It
Marge
2011
Series
The Real
Host
2014
Series
Gotham Comedy Live
Self - Hostess
2012
Series
Comedy Central Presents
1998
Series
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Fuega
2019
Series
Hollywood Squares
Self
2025
Series
Name That Tune
Self - Contestant
2021
Series
Whitney
Nurse
2011
Series
Is It Cake?
Self - Judge
2022
Series
I Can See Your Voice
2020
Series
Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry
Self - Guest
2016
Series
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
Mary J. Ross - Contestant
2020
Series
Kevin Can Wait
Yvette
2016
Comedy.tv
Self - Host
2009
Comedy.tv
Self
2009
Series
Cuts
2005
Film
Soul Plane
Shaniece
2004
Series
Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts
Self
2021
Film
Mother's Day
Kimberly
2016
Film
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Carl in Disguise (voice)
2011
The Great Debate
2009
Film
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Donna Ericone
2015
Series
Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump
Self
2021
Series
The Wheel
Self - Expert
2022
Series
About Last Night
Self
2022
Series
World's Funniest Fails
Self - Panelist
2015
Series
I Love the '70s: Volume 2
Self
2006
Film
Adopt a Highway
Cher
2019
Series
RuPaul
Self
2019
Series
Bethenny
Self - Guest
2012
Film
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Carmen
2014
Series
So Dumb It's Criminal Hosted by Snoop Dogg
Self
2022
Series
Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars
Self - Judge
2022
Series
Home Town: Ben's Workshop
Loni Love
2021
Film
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Carmen Gutierrez
2015
Film
Gutshot Straight
Ms. Love
2014
Series
Celebrity Beef
2022
Series
The Real Dirty Dancing
Self - Contestant
2022
Film
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Field Trips, Permission Slips, Signs, and Weasels
Lunchlady
2007
Film
2021 and Done with Snoop Dogg & Kevin Hart
Self
2021
Film
Meghan Markle: An American Princess
Self
2018
Film
With or Without You
Waitress
2003
Film
Binged to Death
Kristen
2023
Film
The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour
Airport Security
2007
Loni Love: America's Sister
Herself
2010