Born in Boston, Leah Kayajanian grew up in small-town Oklahoma when her mother decided she'd had enough of stores being open after 7:00 p.m. Leah started performing standup in 2006 at her home club, The Loony Bin, and worked clubs in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Little Rock, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Wichita, Denver, and Boston. In 2009, she won the title “Funniest Person in Oklahoma City” and immediately dropped everything to move to Los Angeles like a completely sane and well-adjusted person does, thank you very much.
Since her move to L.A., Leah has become a non-paid regular at the World Famous Comedy Store and is a top-ranked performer on the Store’s widely popular live show, Roast Battle, winning the Roast Battle Royale tournament at LA Riot Festival in January 2016, performing on Comedy Central's Road to Roast Battle in July 2016, and Roast Battle, Season 2 in January 2017. Leah has hosted the Hollywood Improv and the Improv clubs in Las Vegas and in Palm Springs. In 2013 and 2015, she performed at Portland’s highly acclaimed Bridgetown Comedy Festival, in 2014, she made it to the semi-final round of NBC’s Standup for Diversity Showcase, and in 2015 and 2016, she was featured on Fox’s Laughs TV.
Since 2017, she disappeared for awhile, still performing but electing instead to concentrate on her day job. Another LA comedian eloquently described this time period as, "You were killin' it. And then you stopped killin' it." The problem is, even though Leah hung up her Roast Battle gloves, she simply cannot stop accidentally roasting her co-workers. (They don't like it. At all.) In 2018, she got pregnant (on purpose!), and now she has a new unborn child to exploit for material. She would really love to somehow profit off this so she could stop watching what she says because that in itself is a full time job. But let's be honest - she never really did that to begin with, and it's kinda crazy she's pulled it off for this long.
Since her move to L.A., Leah has become a non-paid regular at the World Famous Comedy Store and is a top-ranked performer on the Store’s widely popular live show, Roast Battle, winning the Roast Battle Royale tournament at LA Riot Festival in January 2016, performing on Comedy Central's Road to Roast Battle in July 2016, and Roast Battle, Season 2 in January 2017. Leah has hosted the Hollywood Improv and the Improv clubs in Las Vegas and in Palm Springs. In 2013 and 2015, she performed at Portland’s highly acclaimed Bridgetown Comedy Festival, in 2014, she made it to the semi-final round of NBC’s Standup for Diversity Showcase, and in 2015 and 2016, she was featured on Fox’s Laughs TV.
Since 2017, she disappeared for awhile, still performing but electing instead to concentrate on her day job. Another LA comedian eloquently described this time period as, "You were killin' it. And then you stopped killin' it." The problem is, even though Leah hung up her Roast Battle gloves, she simply cannot stop accidentally roasting her co-workers. (They don't like it. At all.) In 2018, she got pregnant (on purpose!), and now she has a new unborn child to exploit for material. She would really love to somehow profit off this so she could stop watching what she says because that in itself is a full time job. But let's be honest - she never really did that to begin with, and it's kinda crazy she's pulled it off for this long.