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Ashley Nicole Black

American comedian, actress and writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Ashley Nicole Black is an American comedian, actress, writer and producer. She was a writer and correspondent for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2016–2019), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.

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The public source identifies “Ashley Nicole Black” as american comedian, actress and writer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ashley, Nicole and Black.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ashley, Nicole and Black providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ashley Nicole Black” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.