Hǎi Profile: A Conversation with Jiaoying Summers (opens in new tab)

Jiaoying Summers is a stand-up comic who is packing theaters around the U.S., and last year premiered a one-hour comedy special on Hulu. With three and a half million followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, she owes much of her success to short video clips of her standup routines which began going viral as the COVID pandemic was shutting down live entertainment. She had just opened The Hollywood Comedy club in Los Angeles, and found herself performing on her own stage to an empty the...