Ayo Edebiri’s Most Combative Interview to Date
Welcome to Gawker’s How to Be Funny week, a celebration of people and things who are making us laugh and teaching us how to...
Who is Ayo Edebiri? The actress who voices Missy on Big Mouth
Actress, comedian, and writer Ayo Edebiri has joined the cast of the Netflix animated series Big Mouth.
She takes over the role of Missy from...
The Bear star Ayo Edebiri: ‘The cast feel like family to me’
Ayo Edebiri has always been funny, but it has taken more than a decade for the rest of us to notice. She was funny...
Ayo Edebiri’s New Reality
If Ayo Edebiri goes dark on the movie-reviewing app Letterboxd any time soon, blame Willem Dafoe. “I saw this interview where he was like,...
Ayo Edebiri on Taking Risks, Thom Browne and Looking Like Herself
“A little spectacle is good. It’s healthy,” says Ayo Edebiri after a chilly morning spent wandering through San Francisco’s Ferry Building sipping coffee. The...
The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2025
A pint-sized murder mystery, a searing Spike Lee-directed doc entry and a bittersweetly hilarious Thanksgiving rank among THR critics' favorite small-screen chapters of the...
Ayo Edebiri isn’t following anyone else’s recipe
One year later, Ayo Edebiri starred in Season 2 of “The Bear,” which led to her first-ever Golden Globes win on Jan. 8, 2024, followed by...
Extraordinary Pursuits – Neiman Marcus
“You should always know what it is that you want to do, and why you want to do it.”
It’s been an extraordinarily eventful chapter...
37 Hours in Hollywood
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AYO EDEBIRI
Back in Europe, Hollywood’s latest ingenue (a term Ayo Edebiri pokes fun at in interviews) snaps a picture of...
How Ayo Edebiri Became Hollywood’s Most Beloved New Star
There are worse places that a rising star can find themselves than at loose ends in Europe in July. In the middle of the...
Hollywood’s 30 Under 30 Ushers In Big Gen Z Energy
In HBO’s breakout comedy series Hacks, Hannah Einbinder’s Ava—a striving but canceled comedy writer—tries to order coffee at a comedy club, but non-dairy milks,...
Pals Ramy Youssef and Ayo Edebiri Have ‘Made It’—but They Still Sleep on Each...
CULTURED’s second annual CULT100 issue spotlights 100 names across five generations who are shaping our culture in real time. Some members of the list...