Night Train with Guest Hosts Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams

This week's edition of Night Train will be hosted by the wonderful Phoebe Robinson and equally wonderful Jessica Williams!

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PHOEBE ROBINSON
According to Serial Optimist, NYC-based stand up-comedian and writer Phoebe Robinson "is brilliant and able to critique some really complex concepts in a sentence or two. Bask in it, people." Which is precisely what Flavorwire is trying to get the public to do when it listed her as one of "25 Female Comedians Everyone Should Know," and with the way things are going, it seems the place to get to know her is on TV.

Phoebe most recently appeared on Last Comic Standing, the TODAY show, Comedy Central's Broad City and is a staff writer for MTV's Girl Code. She has co-hosted an episode of the series Raising McCain, starred in the MTV pilot Chicks Out of Water, written on the VH1 pilot Chateau Buteau, appeared on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, VH1’s Big Morning Buzz and has been featured on several talking head shows for Pivot TV, VH-1, and the TV Guide Channel such as 100 Shows to See Before You Die, 25 Biggest Reality Star Blunders, and 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs.

When not on television, Phoebe’s a writer for Glamour.com and contributes to The New York Times, bitch magazine, xoJane, VanityFair.com, and TheDailyBeast. Her blogBlaria (aka Black Daria) was picked up by The Huffington Post and has been featured on their website. She has also been published in Time Out NY, The NY Post, and The Smoking Jacket.


JESSICA WILLIAMS
Jessica Williams is an actress, writer, and all-around funny lady from Los Angeles, California. She credits her ability to be hilarious on her very large funny bone. No really, she has been six feet tall since she was in middle school. At first she was awkward and super weird. Then she became funny and still super weird.

Jessica then became a "comedic animal." She was funny, but intense and domineering. She was only blood- thirsty for the giggles and laughter of others. To fill her insatiable appetite, Jessica threw herself into the intense and cut-throat world of improv and sketch comedy. She frantically performed in shows with "ComedySportz: The College Team" and at the "Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre". A lot of people died laughing.

After practically "killing it" at every single comedic venue in Los Angeles, Jessica decided it was time to conquer New York City. This year, she joined "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" as a new correspondent. Jessica plans to destroy everything that she sees both comedically and physically. As a result, there are a lot of things broken around the studio. She loves it.

Photo: Luke Fontana