Tiffany Haddish wins a Grammy

Only the fourth solo female comedian to do in 60 years

Tiffany Haddish has won the Grammy for best comedy album for the audio recording of her stand-up special Black Mitzvah.

She is only the fourth solo woman to have won the prize since it was founded in 1959, and only the second woman of colour after Whoopi Goldberg in 1986.

Girls Trip star  Haddish was also the only woman nominated this year, sharing the shortlist with with Jim Gaffigan Bill Burr, Patton Oswalt and Jerry Seinfeld.

The other previous solo female winners were Lily Tomlin in 1972, and Kathy Griffin in 2014.  Two women have won the award for collaborations: Jo Stafford with Paul Weston in 1961, and Elaine May & Mike Nichols the following year.

Black Mitzvah describes her rise to fame and her unexpected discovery that she was Jewish, as well as what streaming service Netflix called  ‘raunchy reflections on her long road to womanhood’.

Haddish, 41, had previously been nominated for an Emmy award for the screen version of the same show, too , but lost out to Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones.

Published: 14 Mar 2021

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