Even before graduating from the University of Hawaii with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, Jenée did what many people spend years trying to do: she found a job in her field. She was the sole female in the sports department at Hawaii’s #1 TV news station, but realized it wasn’t her true calling.

On a trip to her native Los Angeles, Jenée gave standup a try at the Laugh Factory open mic. She was a natural, receiving a paying job offer after her very first performance. More importantly, she was hooked. So she gave up a promising career in television journalism, sold her surfboard and returned to Tinseltown to work toward her dream of being a standup comic.

Don’t let the easy smile fool you; Jenée’s not a fluffy “chick comic.” Reminiscent of the old Hollywood broads, she’s got the right combination of brains and sex appeal. She shows that you can hang with the boys without looking like one. Sharing views on topics such as gambling, sexual harassment and the homeless, she tends to sound more like a guy than a girl. Jenée’s clever style of comedy is “delivered in a confident breezy package,” according to a Los Angeles Times article. She can shift effortlessly between clean, racy and downright dirty while still being true to herself. This versatility has allowed her to perform for a wide range of crowds and venues, from small clubs around the country to the Camp Pendleton Fourth of July Beach Bash attended by 30,000 Marines and their families. Her greatest pleasure in comedy comes from performing for our military troops and she has done so in a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia, Kosovo, and South Korea.

Jenée has taken other media outlets by storm as well. She appeared in the film, Some Kinda Joke, in the tv pilot The Court of Common Sense (starring Joe Rogan) and, in the early part of the decade, she co-hosted the weekly Internet show Comics’ Day Off, which featured such future comedy stars as Dane Cook, Aisha Tyler, Doug Stanhope and Alonzo Bodden. Her material can be found in two joke books, She’s So Funny and From the Stage to the Stove, and for several years she offered quips on celebrities’ ensembles as a contributor to US Weekly magazine’s “Fashion Police.”

In recent years, standup took a slight backseat to a different passion: Internet poker. It started out as a diversion but by the time she turned one thousand in play chips into five million, she decided to try it for real money and turned it into a successful career…until Congress passed the Internet Gaming Bill, which essentially put an end to that. In the aftermath, she returned to her writing roots in print, television and cyberspace. While she no longer performs standup full time, she still gets a huge thrill every time she steps on the comedy stage.