Yassir Lester is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who was born on June 22, 1984. He worked as a writer for Girls and The Carmichael Show. His most well-known roles are those of Chris in Making History and Yassir, the stockbroker in the 2019 Showtime series Black Monday.

Filmography

• Sausage Party: Foodtopia — (voice)
• 2024The Gutter — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2022Clerks III — RST Customer
• Loot — Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• Single Drunk Female — Lucas
• 2022The Clerks 3 Documentary
• Ghosts — Garrett
• Kenan — Writer, Supervising Producer
• Ten Year Old Tom — Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• #blackAF — Director, Producer
• 2020Basic — Producer
• Duncanville — Yangzi (voice)
• United We Fall — Yassir
• Black Monday — Yassir X, Writer, Executive Story Editor, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer
• Champaign Ill — Writer
• Champions — Shabaz
• Loudermilk — Writer
• Making History — Chris
• 2016The Bet — Ed McDoogle
• The Carmichael Show — Writer, Story Editor
• black-ish — Jamal
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Quentin Chase
• Girls — Delcan, Staff Writer, Story Editor
• Key & Peele — Laron's Friend #1
• The Mindy Project — David

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2018A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy — Self
• 2014Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats — Himself
• @midnight with Chris Hardwick — Self