Anjelah Johnson set to crack sassy, multi-racial jokes.

Standing on the sidelines at NFL football games as an Oakland Raiderette cheerleader, Anjelah Johnson must have wondered if that was all there was for her. In spite of being voted Raiderette Rookie of the Year and appearing at Superbowl XXXVII, she traded in the sidelines for standing in front of a video camera and almost immediately the dominoes fell differently.

Instead of a TV role that led to films, an internet presence and touring, she hit the big time first with a YouTube video called “Nail Salon” that went mega-viral.

“When I first started doing stand-up, I got kinda famous on YouTube for doing this joke about getting my nails done,” she recalls, “It’s crazy – like when this video first came out I had no idea it was gonna blow up like that.”

That same year she joined the cast of popular sketch comedy “MADtv” on Fox with the likes of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (of Key & Peele), which spawned her character “Bon Qui Qui,” another viral star.

The often wickedly-tongued comedienne brandishes her own ethnicity – she’s half Mexican, half Native American – like a get-out-of-jail-free Monopoly card, accruing her a sort of license to say and do things most of us are not supposed to think. Fortunately for her – and her audience – the results are often hilarious.

“I live in L.A. now,” the San Jose-bred entertainer says, “so that’s like Northern Mexico. So that’s the only kind of Spanish that I usually hear.”

She recalls when she first flew to Florida to meet her Puerto Rican husband’s mom. “When I hear a Puerto Rican speak Spanish it sounds like they have water in the mouth and they don’t want it to spill out… so when I get there his mom starts speaking to me in Spanish and I was like: ‘Oh, sorry – I don’t speak Puerto Rican.’”

Not playing favorites, Johnson’s schtick also includes quick-witted takes and racy slams on gypsies, lesbians, Vietnamese, Koreans, babies, blacks, cholos and cholas, Filipinos and all of their collective accents. No group is out of bounds for her.

Onstage, she presents like a Mexican valley girl offering up fast-paced sardonic irreverence and girly-chic comedy all while pacing back and forth across the stage, a la Chris Rock.

And she’s not beyond making fun of herself. Johnson and her husband, Manwell Reyes of the rap group Group 1 Crew, have decided they don’t want kids. “How un-Mexican of me,” she says.

ANJELAH JOHNSON 8pm Sunday, Oct. 9. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey $31-$86. 649-1070, www.goldenstatetheatre.com