Cedric the Entertainer Biography
Cedric the Entertainer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television personality. He appeared alongside Steve Harvey on The Steve Harvey Show and was a part of The Original Kings of Comedy. He hosted the 12th season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and appeared in The Soul Man, a TV Land original series. He has provided voices for characters in Ice Age, Madagascar, Charlotte’s Web, Planes, and Planes: Fire & Rescue. He now stars in the CBS series The Neighborhood.
How old is Cedric the Entertainer? – Age
He is 59 years old as of April 24 2023. He was born in 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. His real name is Cedric Antonio Kyles.
Cedric the Entertainer Family – Education
He was in The Original Kings of Comedy and costarred on The Steve Harvey Show with Steve Harvey. He starred in the TV Land original series The Soul Man and hosted the twelfth season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Characters from Ice Age, Madagascar, Charlotte’s Web, Planes, and Planes: Fire & Rescue have been voiced by him. He is currently a star of The Neighborhood, a sitcom on CBS.
He is the son of Kittrell Kyles, a worker for The Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Rosetta (née Boyce), a schoolteacher, Cedric was born in Caruthersville, Missouri, on April 24, 1964. Sharita Kyles Wilson, a communications professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, is his younger sister. After completing junior high school, Cedric relocated to Berkeley, Missouri, a northern St. Louis suburb. He was born and reared in Caruthersville, Missouri. He is Berkeley High School alumnus. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in communications.
Does Cedric the Entertainer have a wife? – Children
He has been married to Lorna Wells since 1990. The couple has three children Croix Kyles, born in 2000 and LLucky Rose Kyles, born in 2003. Tiara Kyles, his daughter from a previous relationship, was born in 1990.
How much money does Cedric the Entertainer make? – Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
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He started acting in films like Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Ride, Serving Sara, Johnson Family Vacation, Code Name: The Cleaner, Intolerable Cruelty, Man of the House, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Madagascar: Escape to Africa, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, and Be Cool. His Barbershop character made controversial remarks regarding Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, which sparked outrage. These comments were spoken in character, as part of the script, and he has never apologized for them. In Madagascar, he voiced Maurice the aye aye. In October 2005, he became a part owner in the Champ Car auto racing series. In the film Charlotte’s Web, he voiced Golly the gander.
Cedric the Entertainer Career
Cedric’s stage name came about when he felt that his genuine name, Cedric Kyles, sounded excessively formal. Enlivened by a performer named Kodak, he thought of the name “Cheerio”, yet got an order to shut everything down from General Factories over their grain Cheerios. He chose his stage name when somebody presented him as “a performer, Cedric the performer” and the name stuck.
In 1995, Cedric moved into acting, trying out for and accepting his very first job as The Fearful Lion in the 1995 Apollo Theater Restoration of The Wiz. He extended his vocation by playing Steve Harvey’s companion Cedric Jackie Robinson on The Steve Harvey Show. While his acting vocation developed, Cedric kept on performing stand-up parody and ventured to every part of the country as one of the Rulers of Satire main events with Steve Harvey, D. L. Hughley and Bernie Macintosh. The demonstration was subsequently made into a Spike Lee film, The First Rulers of Satire.
Cedric had his own sketch satire show, Cedric the Performer Presents, yet in the wake of being restored briefly season, it was dropped by Fox before the season started. He found opportunity to compose a book, Developed A$$ Man. He showed up in the 2003 computer game Tiger Woods PGA Visit 2004. A later HBO Parody Extraordinary was Cedric The Performer: Taking You Higher. He recorded comedic intermissions on two Nelly collections, Nation Syntax (2000) and Nellyville (2002) as well as on Jay-Z’s The Dark Collection (2003).
In the 2007 parody film Code Name: The Cleaner, Cedric plays Jake, a janitor with amnesia who might be a mysterious covert government specialist engaged with an unlawful arms trick. He featured in the 2008 movies Invite Home Roscoe Jenkins and Road Rulers.
Cedric showed up as the lead jokester at the White House Reporters Supper, yet flippantly commented that he was ill-equipped on the grounds that he believed that he would follow a funny discourse by President George W. Shrubbery. He rather followed First Woman Laura Shrubbery, who referred to him as “clever” and “likely the most entertaining individual” she had at any point met.
Cedric has won many honors, starting with $500 in the Johnny Walker Public Parody Challenge in 1990 and coming in first in the Mill operator Authentic Draft Satire Challenge in 1993. Wager named him Richard Pryor Comic of the Year. He has likewise won four NAACP Grants.
He was accepted to the St. Louis Stroll of Acclaim on June 7, 2008. His star is at 6166 Delmar. He was the unique visitor have for WWE Crude on September 21, 2009, in Little Stone, Arkansas. During the show, he partook in a wrestling match, overcoming Chavo Guerrero Jr. by pinfall. The match likewise highlighted Santino Marella as a visitor ref. Cedric additionally found support from an obscure grappler named The Demolition hammer (played by Imani Lee) and Hornswoggle.
In Walk 2010, Cedric made his first time at the helm with Dance Fu, delivered and financed freely by his organization Bird and a Bear Diversion with maker Eric C. Rhone. It featured jokester Kel Mitchell. Cedric made an appearance in the film as a manslaughter criminal investigator. It was delivered directly to DVD on October 4, 2011.
Cedric showed up in the Broadway recovery of David Mamet’s play American Bison. In a June 21, 2011, interview, Cedric said his most recent reality game show, It’s Worth What?, might air on NBC on July 12, 2011, however the beginning date was postponed by multi week to July 19. Beginning in 2012, he played the principal character in the television Land unique series The Spirit Man, highlighting Niecy Nash. The series ran for five seasons and finished in 2016.
Cedric was the host of the American television game show Who Needs to Be a Mogul, starting with its twelfth season in public partnership, which debuted on September 2, 2013. On April 30, 2014, Cedric reported that he was leaving the game show after the 2013-14 season to zero in on different undertakings. Terry Teams took over as host on September 8, 2014. Beginning in 2018, Cedric played the personality of Calvin Head servant in the TV sitcom The Area.
Cedric the Entertainer Movies
♦ 2024 – Outlaw Posse
♦ 2024 – A Hip-Hop Story
♦ 2024 – Unfrosted
♦ 2023 – The Plus One
♦ 2023 – How I Learned to Fly
♦ 2022 – The Black Karen
♦ 2020 – Poor Greg Drowning
♦ 2020 – Son of the South
♦ 2020 – The Opening Act
♦ 2017 – First Reformed
♦ 2016 – Barbershop: The Next Cut
♦ 2016 – Why Him?
♦ 2014 – A Haunted House 2
♦ 2014 – Planes: Fire & Rescue
♦ 2014 – Top Five
♦ 2013 – A Haunted House
♦ 2013 – Madly Madagascar
♦ 2013 – Planes
♦ 2012 – Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
♦ 2011 – Dance Fu
Cedric the Entertainer
♦ 2023 – The Daily Show
♦ 2022–present – The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
♦ 2021 – 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards
♦ 2020–present – The Greatest #AtHome Videos
♦ 2020 – Woke
♦ 2019–2020 – Power
♦ 2018–present – The Neighborhood
♦ 2018–2021 – Summer Camp Island
♦ 2018–2020 – The Last O.G.
♦ 2018 – Black-ish
♦ 2018 – Nobodies
♦ 2017 – Master of None
♦ 2017 – Drop the Mic
♦ 2017 – Nightcap
♦ 2017 – The Comedy Get Down
♦ 2017 – Superior Donuts
♦ 2017 – Funny You Should Ask
♦ 2016 – Another Period
♦ 2015, 2020 – Whose Line is It Anyway?
♦ 2015 – Cedric’s Barber Battle