Career/Profession: Comedian, Actor, Film Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter, Film Director, Television Director

Edward “Eddie”Rubin Griffin as the name itself brings a smile on our face. He is popularly known as Eddie Griffin or we can say a funny man who is always ready to burn the stage with his style and jokes. He is a fantastic American actor and stand-up comedian. People used to know him with his role in the series Malcolm & Eddie as Eddie Sherman instead of his original name. He started his daring and amazed career in 1990. He is a gifted star in the world of entertainment.

Focus shifted from dancing to Acting:

Eddie was born on July 15^th, 1968 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised by his mother Doris Thomas who was an operator in Phone Company. He completed his high schooling in Kansas and got admitted to Kansas State University in biological Engineering but he left the university after three months. During his school time he was selected as a class clown for continuously three years. Instead he has perceived his career as a comedian but his first love was dance. He opened his own studio and worked there as choreographer. Suddenly his life took a turn when his brother forced him to perform at local stage as a comedian. He was told to perform for only three minutes but he performed continuously without break for 45 minutes. This incident opened a new door for him and he moved to Los Angeles for pursuing his career as stand-up comedian.

Acting gave him a shining career:

Griffin after moving to Los Angeles started his career by performing small roles in several films. He reached to the top after making use of each and every small opportunity. He was seen starred in several movies such as The Meteor Man in 1993, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo in 1999 etc. he established his career as a comedian when he performed for The Last Boy Scout in 1991, Coneheads in 1993 etc. these movies created a big fan following for Eddie and get him a role in Malcolm and Eddie from 1996-2000. The role in this series got him nominated for NAACP Image Award. He continued his acting in movies and list includes Scary Movie 3 in 2003, Norbit in 2007 etc. He also became writer and directed several episodes. He was fed up of doing small roles and taking just small advantage of the movie. Finally in 2001 he got lead role along with Orlando Jones in Double Take. John Q movie brought him respect as an actor in 2002. This list is endless including some big hits and some flops too. He also tried his hands on production of the movie My Baby’s Daddy in 2004 for Miramax Production.

Carved his name among the best Comedians:

As we know Griffin was interested in dancing but took stand up comedy as his career. It was seen that his behaviour and the speed with which he achieved the success in this field gave a feeling of his passion towards this profession. In a period of one month he carved his name in the good books of comedians and sooner he was compared with Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce etc. He was amongst the list of top 100 in the Stand ups comedians of All time. His successful performances led him to make a position in the industry and got so roles in Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam. He was also nominated for Cable Ace Award for One Night Stand in 1992. He also gave some funny musical performances for the Message in the Hat in 1993 and The Message in 1999. His credits are endless and actually increasing with time. He gave his performance for two tracks in two albums i.e. 2001 and Helter Skelter. He imitates Michael Jackson and Crack Cocaine in a very amazing way that sometimes his identity is lost. He came on Chappelle’s show in the role of Grits n Gravy.

Personal Life:

Griffin made a hat trick in marriage. He firstly got married to Carla in 1983 and at that time he was just 16 years old. The couple had been together for 13 years. After getting divorced from Carla he got married to Rochelle in 2002 but unfortunately this relationship also ended. The couple had nine children. In 2011 he tied knots with Nia Rivers.

Investments and his Assets:

Eddie Griffin is very particular about his looks and apparels. He is always seen in some new looks and tends to follow the trends. Starting from his glasses he nevertheless used to step down from the particular brand and his glasses are generally polarized. His accessories which he used to wear during his acting or stage comedies are generally of Aklia. He used to cover his head with NY Yankees Cap every time. He tends to invest all his mponey

Perfect mixture of talent:

Recently Eddie is working for Comedy Central for the show You Can Tell ‘em I said it which started in 2011. He was entitled amongst the top 100 greatest comedians of all time by Comedy Central. He has made his image not only on the stage but also covered silver screens. He has a record of 47 films and around 20 television shows. He is perfect mixture of talents and skills.

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Career/Profession: Actor, Comedian

Dane Jeffery Cook is popularly known as Dane Cook. He is an American stand-up comedian, actor who is acclaimed for his comedian personality. He is widely known for his observational looks and dark comedy. His style is very casual, but he always uses long-stories with repetitive phrases. He has a net worth of about $30 million. He is a one of the comedian actor who uses web pages and space pages to build and expand his fan following.

Education Profile:

Cook was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 18, 1972. He was the second son of George F. Cook and Donna Jean. He has five sisters and one elder half- brother named Darryl. He belongs to Roman Catholic Family and his parents were very religious and believed in Catholic traditions. They have an Irish ancestry. Cook grew up in Arlington and completed his studies from Arlington High School. His behavior was slightly confusing in his childhood as in school, he was very shy and introvert type of boy rather at home he was an extrovert boy. He became an open character when he was in his high school. He started doing stand-up comedy and became a part of the drama club. This helped him to boost his knowledge and expose his talent to the country. After graduation, he pursued some course in graphic designing and kept it as his back-up plan if he did not reach his goal. Due to this learning he is now capable of designing cover designs for his albums and don’t need to hire any cover designer. He neither drinks nor takes any drugs.

Cheated By his Brother:

Dane’s elder brother Darryl was his partner and his business manager till 2008. After that he and his family were surprised as they came to know that his brother and his wife cheated on him. They embezzled lots of money from his account to make their future lightened. They both were sentenced to prison for this fraud despite of blood relation.

Big Break as a Comedian:

Cook started his career by performing at the clubs in 1990. In 1994, he moved to New York for achieving more fame. In 1998, ‘Comedy’s Central Premium Blend’ gave his career a bang start. In 2003, he launched his first album ‘Harmful If Swallowed’ based on comedy and signed a treaty with Comedy Central Record.  In 2005, he came up with his second album named ‘Retaliation’ which topped the Billboard chart. It was a great success for him as it was platinum certified. Later in the following year he acted in ‘Vicious Circle’. In 2012, he starred in the NBC comedy series ‘Next Caller’ but the show was criticized a lot more than appreciation and got cancelled very soon. In 2007, he released ‘Rough around the Edges’ which was filmed at Madison Square Garden in New York. During the following year, he also performed on stage for about 3 hours 50 minutes and broke the record of Richard Pryor i.e. Laugh Factory’s Endurance Record. He also broke the record of Chapelle after on stage performance of 8 hours.

In 2005, he hosted a widely famous show ‘Saturday Nightly Live’. Then he goes on to host season 32 of SNL. In 2006, he grabbed the opportunity to host Teen Choice Awards against Jessica Simpson. He was awarded as ‘Hot Comic of the Year’ by Rolling Stones.

Acting Career:

He also pursued his career as a comedy actor by performing in various movies. In 1999, he started with ‘Mystery Man’. In 2006, he got a lead role in ‘Employee of the Month’ and earned $ 30 million. In 2007, he performed in ‘Mr. Brooks’ as the devious photographer. This movie hit the box office. In the same year, ‘Good Luck Chuck’ was released and became the 2^nd highest earning movie on its opening weekend. Later, he came up with ‘Dan in Real Life’ which was rated 2^nd at the box office. It grossed around $11.8 million in thousands of theatres. In 2008, he performed in ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ as a supervisor which earned $ 8.2 million in its first weekend. He also tried his hands on animated movies such as ‘Planes’ in 2013.

Criticism:

As cook’s comedy style is very simple and casual. It has a feature of long-form storytelling with repetitive phrases. He used to say that he had inherited this from his parents. But media found him an unfunny character and criticized him by saying that he did not suit to the role. Ron White, another comedian, actor criticized him and said that he lacked in real material and did not perform up to the mark. Nick DiPaolo also agreed with him and accepted that he was not capable of making any scene funny at all. He was rated as one of the Worst Comedians on the radio show Toucher and Rich in Boston. In Michigan Daily also, Elie Zwiebel stated that his act is really boring.

Famous Quotes:

• I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
• My fame is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

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Profession: Comedian, Screenwriter, television and flim Producer and actor.

Know Dave Chappelle:

Dave Chappelle’s full name is David Khari Webber Chappelle. He was born on 24 August 1973 to William David Chappelle and Yvonne Reed. His birth place is Washington DC, USA. He had three siblings among which he was the youngest. His source of wealth are Comedy, acting  and writing. His star sign is Virgo.

After he graduated from Duke Ellington School of Arts in 1991, Dave moved to New York to pursue his career in the field of acting and precisely in comedy. Chappelle was greatly inspired by Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor . He made his first debut when he was 19 years old.

Path of Success:

Chappelle performed his first performance in Harlem’s Apollo theatre which did not go very well and he had to face his first failure on the way of success.  He began his acting career in 1993, when he was offered a  movie to act in namely, “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”. In between he acted in many Tv shows but he did not gain much recognition. He also got a role in one of the most successful movie “Forest Gump” which he thought will be a failure and turned it down.

The stage of success started in his life when he was given the opportunity to host his own show on Comedy Central. Soon people were very impressed by his sense of humour, his references to the acute political and social questions. His first season of the show sold 3 million copies of the DVDs. Chappelle surpassed the Simpsons and became the best selling DVD of a TV show so far. He acted as the lead role in 1998 in the movie “Half Baked”.

Know  Dave Chappelle more:

He has a production company named “Pilot Boy Productions” in reference to the many failed pilots in which he starred.

He likes to play video games, and even has a World Of Warcraft account.

His favorite show is MTV’s The Real World (1992).

His maternal grandfather was a blind Caucasian who was raised to believe that he was African-American.

He is considered among top 10 stand-up comedians of the world.

Dave Chappelle’s Block Party:

Chappelle was the star and a producer of the Michel Gondry-directed documentary Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, which was held on September 18, 2004 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. He brought Yellow Springs residents to Brooklyn at his own expense. Another surprising highlight of the event was the (temporary) reunion of popular 1990s hip-hop group The Fugees.

Chappelle toured several cities in February and March 2006 to promote the film under the name “Block Party All-Stars featuring Dave Chappelle”. The film was released in the U.S. on March 3, 2006. It was successful and had a gross total of $11.7 million on a $3 million budget.

Personal Life:

Dave’s both parents were professors. Daves father worked as a statistician before becoming a professor at Antioch College  in Yellow Spring ,Ohio. His mother was a professor at Howard University, Prince George’s Community College, and the University of Maryland, and is also a Unitarian Universalist minister. Chappelle also has a stepmother and a stepbrother.He was very young when his parents got divorced. He had spend most of his time with his mom.

Chappelle was married in the year 2001 to Elaine Mendoza Erfe, who is an Filipino descendent. He has two sons named Sulayman and Ibrahim Chappelle and a daughter named Sonal Chappelle and lives in Yellow Springs. It is a village in Greene country, Ohio, United States. He also owns several houses in Xenia, Ohio. Chappelle converted to Islam in 1998.

Controversies and recent news:

He is one of the top ten most reclusive celebrities.

After the successful run of the show Comdey central show for two seasons, when the 3^rd season was scheduled, Chappelle left the show and went to South Africa. After that he did performance in Los Angeles, went on a tour to Newport and he kept on touring and performing.

After his flight to South Africa, where he stayed with a friend, rumors raged about drug abuse, mental instability and problems with the network. The only one of those things that seemed supported by his behavior were the creative struggles with Comedy Central. Yet in an interview with TIME the comedian refused to blame the show’s producers.

Recently in August 2013  he returned on the stage to celebrate Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival which was sponsored by Funny or Die, but he had to walk off the stage  because when he tried to address the audience he was heckled down. Following this he stopped his performance in Chicago also.

Glories and Triumphs:

Chappelle was nominated for the Primetime Emmy awards in the year 2004 and 2005. Also, he was nominated for Teen Choice awards and Image awards in the year 2004 and 2005.

He won NAMIC Vision Awards in 2004 under the category “Best Comedian Performance” for Chappelle’s show(2003)(TV). He won the NAMIC Vision award again in the year 2005 under the same category for the same show.

Other investments:

Dave Chappelle wealth is not only because of his profession but also because he is engaged in many other things. For over 32 years he have been a real state investor and property owner. He currently owns and successfully manages around 300 units. His holdings consists of duplex, apartments etc. But  his major part of wealth is earned from his shows and tours on which he goes. For his show Comdey Central he earned nearly about $1,000,000 for each one season

Personal quote:

One of the Dave’s personal quote-

“You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous”

In an interview with Esquire magazine in 2006, Chappelle memorably described his relationship with fame:

“Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through. You just don’t walk around feeling like ‘I’m a goddamn star.’ You walk around feeling like you.”

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PROFESSION: Actor, Comedian, Producer and Director.

Eddie Regan Murphy is an American Comedian, actor, writer, singer, director and musician. He is known for his role in Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984. He has been bestowed with a lot of awards and has been ranked no 10 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of all time. Murphy is influenced by Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and his roles depict his tribute to one of his idols, Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in several of his films.

CHILDHOOD

Murphy belongs to the arty boroughs of Brooklyn. He is the younger son of Lilian and Charles Edward Murphy. His father was an amateur actor and comedian who died when Murphy was still a child. He spent one year in foster care. Murphy often says that the time he spent in foster care played a very influential role in developing his sense of humor. By the bright age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines.

CAREER

Eddie Murphy is a man of many talents. His career can be divided into 3 categories-

STAND UP COMEDIAN

Murphy basically started out as a Stand Up Comedian and his early comedy involved a lot of swearing. It was interesting. Murphy has always had a refreshing take on things that go unnoticed by the masses. Eddie was successful in releasing two stand-up specials. They were Eddie Murphy in 1982 and Delirious in 1983. Raw was released in 1987 and it was filmed in the famous Madison Square Garden in the Big Apple.

ACTOR

Murphy entered the acting scene as a regular actor at Saturday Night Live. Buckwheat was his most popular character. Murphy made his big debut in 1982, with a film called 48 hrs. The movie was a hit with the audience! His next movie, Trading Places, proved to be an even bigger hit than 48 hrs. Murphy’s first starring role was in Beverly Hills Cop which grossed over $230 million at the box office.

Murphy has starred in a supernatural comedy called The Golden Child, in 1986. But, this movie was not as critically acclaimed as his earlier movies like 48 hrs, Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop.

Paramount Pictures released all of his early films, which is indeed an honor.

In the 90s, Murphy was criticized by filmmaker Spike Lee. Spike Lee often showed displeasure towards Murphy because Murphy never used his fame and show business stature to help black actors break into the films even though all the films Murphy produced were predominantly featuring black casts.

The early 1990s weren’t really a bright phase in Murphy’s life but his box office results began to recover in 1996 with The Nutty Professor.

In 2007, Murphy was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In December, 2013, it was announced that Murphy would star in the Fourth Film of the Beverly Hills Cop series.

SINGER

Murphy is a man of many talents! He is also a singer and musician. He lent his voice to the song “The Boys Are Back in Town”which was featured in 48 hrs. He has two hit singles, “Party All the Time” and “Put Your Mouth on Me”. He also performed in a music video of the single “Whatzupwitu” featuring Micheal Jackson, the King of Pop. All of the musical work of Eddie Murphy has not received its due credit. Murphy even performed several songs in the Shrek film franchise. Presently, he is working on a new album titled 9.

FAMILY

Eddie Murphy married his long time sweetheart in 1993. He had five children with his wife Nicole Mitchell. Mitchell successfully divorced Murphy in 2006. As of 2008, Murphy has been residing in Long Island, New York. Murphy has also had children out of wedlock with Melanie Brown, Tamara Hood, and Paulette Mcneely. In 2008, Murphy exchanged marriage vows with Tracey Edmonds thought their wedding was never official. It was more of a symbolic union.

CONTROVERSIES

Murphy has led a clean life, as compared to the many actors of his generation. The most famous lawsuit filed against him was in 1988 where Art Buchwald sues Murphy and Paramount Pictures, alleging that they had used ideas from a screenplay he had submitted to Paramount as the basis for the film Coming to America. He never came into the limelight for any controversies.

PHILANTHROPY

Eddie Murphy is a man with a big heart. He has more than often been a part of many organizations that support various medical causes. He has been known to be associated with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, where he donated a huge sum of money. He donates money to the AIDS Foundation, and charities for cancer, education, creative arts etc. He is also known to have donated $100, 000 to the Screen Actors’ Guild’s strike relief fund. Murphy is a man who has his feet firmly planted in the ground. Though he has received a lot of recognition for his work, he hasn’t let that get to his head

ASSETS

- Granite Bay, his house in California, is worth $6.5 million.

- Rooster Cay, an island, was bought by him in 2007. This island, at that time, cost him $15 million.

- Murphy has an undying love for automobiles. He is the proud owner of Rolls- Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Rolls- Royce Phantom, Mercedes Benz SLS and Aston Martin Vanquish

THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT EDDIE MURPHY

- He is Kylie Minogue’ number one fan.

- He’s the first actor to receive one million dollars for his first film.

- He owns his own, personal island in the Bahamas, “Rooster Cay.”

- He loves Elvis Presley.

- He has played multiple roles in seven different movies.

- He was originally considered for the title role of the horror movie, “Candyman” in 1992.

Known for playing multiple roles in seven of his films

NOTABLE WORKS AND ROLES

- Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop.

- Various on Saturday Night Live.

- Donkey in Shrek series.

FUN QUOTES

- “I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.”

- ‘”The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.”

- “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”

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