Janine Brito is an American comedienne, actress, and writer. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene, she is recognized nationally as a writer and on-air correspondent for the television program Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, which premiered on FX in 2012 and was cancelled early in its second season due to a drop in ratings after the series was moved to FX's spin-off network FXX. She joined the comedy series One Day at a Time on Netflix in the show's third season as both a writer and an actor.