Calise Hawkins is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress. Her standup has been featured on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Russell Simmons Presents Live At The El Rey on Comedy Central, FOX’s Gotham Live, TV Guide’s Stand Up in Stilettos, Nick Mom’s Night Out, among others. She has written for Comedy Central’s @Midnight and Hood Adjacent, MTV’s Totally Clueless, Girl Code, and Charlemagne’s Uncommon Sense. Calise was a cast member on Oxygen’s Funny Girls and was featured on Viceland’s Danny’s World. In 2020, Calise released her debut comedy album 40 AF on Blonde Medicine Records. In 2021 Hawkins produced on Comedy Central’s Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinson and was a staff writer for season 2 of That Damn Michael Che airing on HBOMax. Calise is currently a story editor on Freeform’s Everything’s Trash.