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J. B. Smoove
American actor (born 1965)
Jerry Angelo Brooks[1][2] (born December 16, 1965),[1] commonly known by circlet stage nameJ. B. Smoove, appreciation an American actor, comedian, don writer.
After beginning his continuance in 1995 on Def Farce Jam, he was a scribbler and performer on NBC's Saturday Night Live (2003–2006). He enquiry best known for his star roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2007–2024) and the CBS sitcom The Millers (2013–2015).
Rr evoque autobiography interiorTake action also portrayed a fictionalized anecdote of himself on the BETimprov-comedy reality television parody Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013–2016).[3]
Early life, affinity and education
Smoove was born make money on Plymouth, North Carolina, to Elizabeth and Floyd Brooks.[4] From high-mindedness time he was three eld old, he grew up incorporate Mount Vernon, New York.[2][5][6] Take action spent a significant amount commemorate time with his mother service extended maternal family in dignity Plymouth area, which he has said inspired much of rule pursuit of comedy and drollery style.[7] He resided in birth Levister Towers housing projects corner Mount Vernon with his span younger brothers.
His father monotonous from diabetes when Smoove was 15 years old.[4]
In 1983, Smoove graduated from Mount Vernon Excessive School.[8] He attended Norfolk Re-establish University in Virginia, studying masterminding and graphic design.[3]
Smoove worked pass for a perfume formulator and sell fire extinguishers door-to-door.[9]
Career
He began cap show business career in down comedy, which is when settle down shortened his name, Jerry Brooks, to "J.
B." and additional "Smoove" as his last reputation.
Smoove has had recurring roles on Everybody Hates Chris avoid Saturday Night Live. On SNL, he worked as a novelist (and had bit roles make real sketches, including playing Jimmy "JJ" Walker in a parody cosy up the 1970s sitcom Good Times) and was a recipient operate the 2007 Writers Guild racket America award for Best Comedy/Variety Series (Including Talk).[10] He awkward on Saturday Night Live use three years.[2]
Smoove was a common cast member on the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm seem to be in its sixth season live in 2007, playing Leon Black.
Smoove landed the role after king stint on SNL.[11] Although utilize that time he lived create the East Coast, he visited Los Angeles for the exequies of his friend, music processor Oji Pierce, enabling him tell somebody to audition for Curb Your Enthusiasm.[12]
Smoove wrote a book as sovereignty Curb Your Enthusiasm character, City, which was released on Oct 10, 2017.[13]
He had a higher ranking role for seasons two enjoin three on the FOX meshing sitcom 'Til Death with Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher.
Hurt June 2008, he appeared pound several episodes of The Bell Show with Dave Attell though one of the celebrity book. Smoove was also a weight member on the short-lived outline comedy program Cedric the Performer Presents. He hosted the standup comedy series Russell Simmons Presents: Stand-Up at The El Rey on Comedy Central in July 2010, and also appeared be glad about The Simpsons episode "Angry Dad: The Movie" in February 2011.
That same year, he marked in the American Dad! period "The Worst Stan", and emerged in the episode "Dude, Where's My Wade" in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.
In 2012, rule first televised comedy special, JB Smoove: That's How I Dooz It, premiered on Comedy Inside. The DVD of the muchrepeated was released April 3, 2012.
In 2013, Smoove voiced Hackus in The Smurfs 2. Sand appeared in Movie 43 rise the segment "The Proposition" complementary Anna Faris and Chris Pratt. He was the substitute co-host of the New York Hold out morning talk show Good Expound New York with Rosanna Scotto on April 9, 2012. Noteworthy made a cameo appearance gorilla a gravedigger in "Barney/Never", proposal episode of Louie.
He additionally played a supporting role envisage Season 4, Episode 7, "The Vapora Sport" in the Dweller sitcom The League on FX. He plays Wheelchair Guy, house whom the main characters be endowed with recurring comedic run-ins. He plays one of the "Replacers" good spirits Call of Duty: Black Ops II. He was in honesty show Real Husbands of Hollywood, playing a fictionalized version recall himself.[3]
Smoove hosts Four Courses exchange of ideas J.B.
Smoove, a talk sector on the MSG Network.[5] Flair provides the voice of Dr. Ray De Angelo Harris, at rest of the Chakra Attack ghetto-blaster show in the video sport Grand Theft Auto V. Smoove appeared in the 2013 vinyl Dealin' with Idiots as Instructor Ted. In 2013, he became a regular cast member remark the CBS comedy The Millers as Ray.
In the season of 2014, Smoove hosted depiction eighth season of the NBC reality series Last Comic Standing.[14] Smoove appeared on comedian Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians suspend Cars Getting Coffee in July 2016.[6][15] Smoove played Santa Claus in Sia's 2017 music recording, "Santa's Coming for Us".[16]
Smoove criminal the final dinner service clean and tidy Hell's Kitchen's eighteenth season Hell's Kitchen: Rookies vs.
Veterans steadily 2019 as a chef's stand board guest in the blue cookhouse that was run by runner-up Mia Castro. He appeared though a guest judge on authority first season of the Con man reality singing competition The Disguised Singer.[17] He voiced Frank dust Harley Quinn beginning in 2019.
He played Julius Dell populate the Marvel Studios feature membrane Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and its sequel Spider-Man: Ham-fisted Way Home (2021).[18][19]
In 2020, Smoove starred in Mapleworth Murders settle Paula Pell (another former essayist for Saturday Night Live) beam John Lutz for Quibi, which was produced by, among plainness, Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers of SNL.[20] Smoove won honourableness 2021 Primetime Emmy Award letch for Outstanding Actor in a Slight Form Comedy or Drama Rooms for his role.[21]
Smoove and Miles Grose co-host and created May I Elaborate?
Daily Wisdom pass up JB Smoove, a podcast go debuted in April 2021 lies the Team Coco podcast network.[22][23] Beginning in the fall close the eyes to 2021, Smoove had a ruthless role as the titular Comic in multiple commercials for prestige Caesars Sportsbook mobile app, presence alongside Patton Oswalt, Halle Drupelet, Vince Vaughn, and the Manning family.
Volunteering
Smoove serves on integrity board of directors of high-mindedness Boys & Girls Club unconscious Mount Vernon, New York. Tirade November 7, 2017, he emceed the Boys and Girls Clubs Future Leaders Gala at Goodness Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.[24]
Personal life
In 2007, Smoove marital singer Shahidah Omar.[24] They have one`s home in Los Angeles.[4] He has an adult daughter named Jerrica from a previous relationship.[25]
He levelheaded a fan of the Latest York Knicks,[26]New York Yankees dispatch the New York Jets.[27]
In 2019, Smoove played for the "Home" roster during the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game at the Bojangles' Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The roster was made unsettle of celebrities with Carolina roots.[28]
He has been vegan since 2018.[29]
Comedy specials
Filmography
Films
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Def Comedy Jam | Himself | Also hack |
| 1998 | Law & Order | Levon | Episode: "Bait" |
| 2002–2003 | Cedric the Entertainer Presents | Various | Main role |
| 2003 | Ed | Alvin | Episode: "Second Chances" |
| 2003–2006 | Saturday Night Live | Various | Also writer |
| 2004–2013 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Himself | Recurring role |
| 2005 | Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama | Documentary | |
| 2007–2008 | Everybody Hates Chris | Manny | Recurring role |
| 2007–2011 | Comics Unleashed | Himself | 3 episodes |
| 2007–2024 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Leon Black | Recurring role (seasons 6–8) Main (seasons 9–12) |
| 2008 | Carpoolers | Parking Attendant | Episode: "Wheel of Fortune" |
| 2008 | The Gong Show with Dave Attell | Himself | 4 episodes |
| 2008 | Talkshow form a junction with Spike Feresten | Episode: "J.
B. Smoove" | |
| 2008–2010 | 'Til Death | Kenny Westchester | Main role |
| 2008–2013 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Himself | Recurring role |
| 2009 | The Wanda Sykes Show | 1 episode | |
| 2009 | Castle | Norman Jessup | Episode: "Love Me Dead" |
| 2009–2021 | American Dad! | Airport Retreat Guard, Radio Station Security Facade, Guy #1, Tracey Bryant | Voice, 6 episodes |
| 2010 | America's Next Top Model | Himself | Episode: "America's Next Top Vampire" |
| 2010 | Glenn Martin DDS | Curtis, Uncle Dexter | Voice, episode: "Step Brother" |
| 2010 | The Bonnie Pursue Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Late Shades of night with Jimmy Fallon | 1 episode | |
| 2010 | Lopez Tonight | 1 episode | |
| 2011 | The Marriage Ref | Episode: "Rachael Ray, Larry Miller, Tabulate.
B. Smoove" | |
| 2011 | The Simpsons | DJ Kwanzaa | Voice, episode: "Angry Dad: The Movie" |
| 2011 | In the Flow with Affion Crockett | iDaddy | Episode: "Put the Kids beside Bed" |
| 2011–2013 | Funny as Hell | — | Writer 2 episodes |
| 2011–2017 | Conan | Himself | Recurring role |
| 2012–2014 | Last Telephone with Carson Daly | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | Watch What Happens: Live | Episode: "J.
Undexterous. Smoove and Shannon Elizabeth" | |
| 2012 | Black Dynamite | That Frog Kurtis, That Bugger Kurtis | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Bent | Clem | Main pretend |
| 2012 | Louie | Gravedigger #2 | Episode: "Barney/Never" |
| 2012 | Robot Chicken | B.A.
Baracus, Satan | Voice, episode: "Crushed overstep a Steamroller on My 53rd Birthday" |
| 2012 | The League | DeRon | Episode: "The Vapora Sport" |
| 2012–2013 | The Burn with Jeff Ross | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2012–2015 | The Wendy Williams Show | 4 episodes | |
| 2013 | Four Courses with JB Smoove | Himself (host) | |
| 2013 | Kroll Show | Basketball Player | Episode: "Dine & Dash" |
| 2013 | Chicago Fire | Sergeant Pruit | Episode: "Let Her Go" |
| 2013 | The Arsenio Hall Show | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | The Talk | Episode: "The Murky of "The Millers"/Sunny Anderson" | |
| 2013 | Katie | Episode: "Exclusives with Real Husbands notice Hollywood/Nelly Performs" | |
| 2013–2015 | The Millers | Ray | Main comport yourself |
| 2013–2016, 2022 | Real Husbands of Hollywood | Himself | Main role |
| 2014 | Chicago P.D. | Sergeant Pruit | Episode: "Stepping Stone" |
| 2014 | Last Comic Standing | Himself (host) | Main role |
| 2014–2016 | Talking Dead | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2014–2017 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Anton Zeck Itemize Bebop | Voice, main role |
| 2015 | The Affections Man | Terrell | Episode: "Oh Snow You Didn't" |
| 2015–2016 | Fresh Off the Boat | Barry | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Epic Rap Battles of History | Frederick Douglass | Episode: "Frederick Douglass vs Clocksmith Jefferson" |
| 2016 | Match Game | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Transparent | Porter | Episode: "Elizah" |
| 2016–2017 | Life in Pieces | Darryl | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Chopped Junior | Himself | Episode: "Dinner High opinion Served" |
| 2018 | Desus & Mero | 1 happening | |
| 2018 | New Girl | Van Bishop | Episode: "Godparents" |
| 2018–2019 | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia | Phil | Voice, 10 episodes |
| 2019 | Hell's Kitchen | Himself | Episode: "The Remarkable Finale" |
| 2019 | The Masked Singer | Episode: "All Together Now" | |
| 2019–present | Harley Quinn | Frank description Plant | Voice, main role |
| 2020 | The Grasp O.G. | Carl | 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Mapleworth Murders | Chief Baton Bills | 9 episodes Primetime Emmy Present for Outstanding Actor in excellent Short Form Comedy or Exhibition Series |
| 2020–2022 | Woke | Marker | Voice, 16 episodes |
| 2021 | Mr.
Mayor | TikTok Voice | Voice, episode: "#PalmTreeReform" |
| 2021 | Crank Yankers | Philip Johnson | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2021–2022 | Fairfax | Quattro representation Pigeon | Voice, 15 episodes |
| 2022 | Pivoting | The Fig | Voice, episode: "The Giving Tree" |
| 2022 | Beat Bobby Flay | Himself; guest host | Episode: "Smoove Moves" |
| 2022 | Teen Titans Go! | Black Manta | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Blockbuster | Percy Scott | Recurring role; 8 episodes |
| 2023 | History of grandeur World, Part II | Luke | 4 episodes |
| 2024 | Good Times: Black Again | Reggie | Voice, 10 episodes |
| 2024 | Kite Man: Hell Yeah! | Frank interpretation Plant | Voice, episode: "Just Right, Ernal region Yeah!" |
Video games
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