Life & Work with Kil Joi of Hollywood Hills

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kil Joi.

Hi Kil, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
Well…Kil Joi a stand up comedian, actor, director, writer, and battle rapper out of Omaha Nebraska named after the 2000s horror movie “Kil Joy” for his sharp and comedic battle rap style, hosting his own rap battle league Kil or be Killed in his hometown which brought the top comedians and battle rappers together for the events. Kil started performing stand up comedy over 10 years ago after being dared to perform his first set at a Goth Film Festival for $500 while shooting his first independent film. From that very first laugh, from the few people that did, he was hooked. Kil started perform regularly every Tuesday at an open mic in Omaha called Shoot Your Mouth and Wednesdays at Barley St Tavern to help hone and sharpen his natural comedic skill set before being booked for the first time professionally by fellow Omaha native Zach Peterson. By year 2 Kil would be producing and hosting his own comedy show at Backline Improv alongside his good comedy brother Quionez Berry called Chocolate Saturdays, named after the legendary Chocolate Sundaes from the World Famous Laugh Factory, that he grew up watching on YouTube. From there as an energic cross between prime Martin Lawrence with Dave Chappelle timing he would appear on the local TV show Omaha LIVE! before producing and hosting his very own stand up comedy TV Show “Oma-HA: A Stand Up Comedy TV Show” on a local televised network. In 2015 Kil would become a finalist in Stand Up NBC unfortunately losing before following that up with a flurry of consecutive 1st place comedy competition wins between 2015-2026 including The Great American Comedy Competition, The Clash of the Comics, The Cross Country Comedy Competition, Comedy for a Cause 2, Comedy for A Cause 3, The NW Comedy Festival Best of Fest Funniest Comedian, Raleigh Comedy Festival Best of Fest, the Burbank Comedy Festival Best of Fest, Jimmy Kimmel Comedy Club Comedian of the night four times, and becoming the only comedian to win 1st place in The US Comedy Contest Headliner Category twice(2018,2025). In 2022 he would win The Best Up and Coming Comedian Award At the World Wide Comedy Awards and in 2025 he would win Cherie Chiles-Buchanan’s 360 Comedy and Kenan Thompsons talent search, Kenan Presents: The Road to SNL, granting him a brief internship and visits to Saturday Night Live. After his initial social media IG and Facebook pages were hacked and deleted, losing the rising star over 300k followers, Kil Joi signed to Golden Artist Entertainment under his mentor comedian Dante Rusciolelli, and would get to work re-building his brand gaining viral popularity across all platforms with his dark direct humor and most known, The Men In Black trend along his comedy brethren Shaq Rolle and for a year straight between 2022-223 would sell out The Comedy Chateau for his first self produced show in Hollywood “The Fresh Comedy Jam” becoming the 4th most successful black comedy showcases in Hollywood. Kil would also often host comedy shows music events and content parties at his penthouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Kil Joi is an “Influencer of Influencer” helping create legendary moments in social media such as Super Hot Fire vs Blueface and develop Content Characters like Purple Pimpin Willie. In 2019 Kil would appear as drug dealer Bishop in the short live series “The Gangstaz” written and directed by screen writer David Terrell Green and In 2020 after after officially moving to Los Angeles Kil would appear as “The Air Force Vet” in the first season and final episode of NBCs I Can See Your voice earning his a spot as the face of series ok Hulu. In 2020 Kil would be casted as the lead Dante in the Amazon Prime film Loving A Younger Man based off the 2017 novel of the same name. In 2022 Kil would also join one of best group internet content creators of all time with All Def Digital, appearing on Roast Me and multiple game All Def game shows and make his second appearance on Chocolate Sundaes Comedy Show. In 2026 Kil Joi would bring together his comedy friends to create the ultimate sketch comedy team Rude Boi World and was also recently added to the Zeus Network Project Development Team. Kil is currently working on his own rap battle league tv show for the network entitled Lyte Work as well as a docuseries called Sharks, about a talent young boxer, Gio, and his former military coach Justin out of Sharks Boxing Club in Los Angeles, following his real life journey into the world of amateur and professional boxing. Kil Joi currently trains in boxing under the same coach and club for a 2029 untitled feature film about underground boxing playing the lead, and resides in Hollywood Hills, California.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Some of the struggles have been major deaths in my immediate family during my career, personal relationships, dealing with mental heath and depression during the ups and downs of a career in the artist industry

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am a stand up comedian, actor, writer, director, and battle rapper. I specialize in stand up comedy and content creation as well and event planning. I own my own rap battle league and i am most proud of being able accomplish what I’ve done in my career while going through some of the worst periods of my life’s. I’m most proud of my team and the projects have have come together to create as well as myself and my own will power and ability to make my imagination, reality. Everything about me sets me apart…my work ethic, experience, energy, style, and smile.

Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Don’t take advice from anyone who doesn’t have the life you want…specially. And work with the people who want to work with you. Don’t force yourself into a group just because of their popularity…build yourself and build your own table, opportunity will come sit with you.

Pricing:

• $1500 (15 min) stand up
• $3000 (30 min)stand up

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.goldenartistsentertainment.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiljoi_ll?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kil.joi.2025?mibextid=wwXIfr
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@kiljoi_ll?si=N8JbetEv7Gq5x3_C
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@kiljoi_ll?_r=1&_t=ZT-99xjTBgOFpt

Image Credits
Qiuonez Berry
Tanisha She is the T