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name: "Yassir Lester"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yassir-lester"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 June 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T19:10:42.007592+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yassir Lester

Writer. Born 22 June 1984 in Miami, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 June 1984, Miami, Florida, USA
- **Also known as:** Yessir Lester 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassir_Lester, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59261604, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2849922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1653368

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Key & Peele*](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md) (82)

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## Biography

Yassir Lester is an American comedian, actor and writer. Born on 22 June 1984 in Miami, Florida, he grew up in Marietta, Georgia, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21 to pursue stand-up comedy.

He worked as a writer on *Girls* (2016–2017) and *The Carmichael Show* (2016). Lester is known for acting roles including Chris in *Making History* (2017), the stockbroker Yassir in *Black Monday* (2019–2021), and Laron's Friend #1 in *Key & Peele* (2012). He wrote, produced and directed the 2024 sports comedy film *The Gutter*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Girls* (2012), Fi1m 82, as Delcan — [page](https://film.one/tv/girls.md)
- *Key & Peele* (2012), Fi1m 82, as Laron's Friend #1 — [page](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Gutter* (2024), Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Sausage Party: Foodtopia* (2024), series, as (voice)
- *The Clerks 3 Documentary* (2022), Acting
- *Clerks III* (2022), as RST Customer
- *Loot* (2022), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Single Drunk Female* (2022), series, as Lucas
- *Ghosts* (2021), series, as Garrett
- *Ten Year Old Tom* (2021), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Kenan* (2021), series, Writer, Supervising Producer
- *United We Fall* (2020), series, as Yassir
- *#blackAF* (2020), series, as Director, Producer
- *Duncanville* (2020), series, as Yangzi (voice)
- *Basic* (2020), Producer
- *Black Monday* (2019), series, Yassir X, Writer, Supervising Producer, Executive Story Editor, Co-Executive Producer
- *Champaign Ill* (2018), series, Writer
- *Champions* (2018), series, as Shabaz
- *Loudermilk* (2017), series, Writer
- *Making History* (2017), series, as Chris
- *The Bet* (2016), as Ed McDoogle
- *The Carmichael Show* (2015), series, Writer, Story Editor
- *black-ish* (2014), series, as Jamal
- *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), series, as Quentin Chase — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md)
- *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, as David
- *Girls* (2012), series, Delcan, Staff Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/girls.md)
- *Key & Peele* (2012), series, as Laron's Friend #1 — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md)

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