Brito was born in
Florida. She attended junior high school in
Scotland and
Hong Kong and high school in
Kentucky. She is of Cuban and Icelandic descent and spoke only Spanish before
kindergarten. After high school, Brito moved to
St. Louis to pursue a business degree at the
Washington University in St. Louis. Once she graduated from college, she remained in St. Louis and launched her career in
comedy. Though she was politically active in college with the student and
labor rights movement, her comedy was not explicitly
political at first. Eventually, she moved to
Oakland specifically for the city's comedy scene and reputation for fostering progressive comics. It was in Oakland that she honed her focus on
identity politics and decided to take more risks in her act, such as adopting her signature
androgynous style. In 2010, she joined Bell and fellow comic Nato Green in Laughter Against the Machine, a political comedy tour that was subsequently made into a
documentary set to premiere in 2014. In 2012, Bell invited Brito to join the writing staff of his new FX series
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In addition to writing on the series, Brito frequently appeared on air in pieces covering topics like Miss Fire Island, LGBTQ athletes, and the "war on women". In 2019, Brito joined the comedy web television series
One Day at a Time as both a writer and an actor. She had a small part in
Amy Poehler's feature-film directorial debut,
Wine Country. In May 2019, Brito performed as a stand-up comedian on
Late Night with Seth Meyers. She is a writer on the animated comedy series
Bless the Harts, starring
Maya Rudolph and
Kristen Wiig. In the
Peacock/
Netflix musical comedy series
Girls5eva, she plays Caroline, the ex-wife of Gloria (played by her real-life wife,
Paula Pell). She also wrote for the series in the third season. ==Comedy style==