Not only is Eddie Murphy an actor he is also a comedian and screen director. He was born and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick on April 3’ 1961, to the parents Lillian, a telephone operator and Charles, a police officer Eddie had many hardships in his life but he got through them, he was a very strong man. Early Years He stayed with his dad in the projects when he was little. He lost his dad when he was eight and his mom went into the hospital when his dad died. He had no choice but to go foster care for a year until his mom got better. After his mom’s recovery, she got married to Vernon Lynch. Soon after the marriage her, murphy, and his brother moved in with her husband in African- American suburb Roosevelt, Long Island. Murphy did nothing but watch TV when he had moved so he developed a great skill for impressions. His mother always told him “you never talk in your own voice”, she said that because he was always acting as a character such as buzz bunny. He then started doing standup comedy as a teenager at clubs. It effected his high school years he never did his homework he was worried about practicing his standup comedy acts after school every day. He had to repeat tenth grade because of the lack of work. He then got back onto task with school and did summer school and night school and only graduated a couple weeks late. …show more content…
He was still doing stand-up comedy at clubs he slowly made his way to New York venues as a comic strip. Even though all of his idols did drugs he stayed away from them. He would say “I don’t have to sniff cocaine to be funny”. After graduating from college he started acting in shows and
At 17, he took his first steps toward becoming a stand up comedian. When he took the stage at a Boston comedy club, he found he was a natural comic. He nurtured his talent while at New York
Generally, when someone is said to be the “best” at something, it is an arbitrary title given to someone by another person based purely of of their own narrow viewpoint. This it true when talking about the best actor, however, there may be a way to determine the best actor on a variety of criteria. Though some may think otherwise, Danny DeVito is a phenomenal actor, who may be considered one of the best in the industry, from his range as an actor, to the sheer number of awards he has won or been nominated for, or even his projects outside of film, he seems to have it all compared to all other actors.
road-life and drug abuse. When he came out of the coma the Dead made a tribute
John Belushi was a well-known comedian, but was hiding a troubling life. Belushi first began his career as a comedian in 1971 when he joined The Second City comedy group in Chicago. In 1973, Belushi began airing on The National Lampoon Radio Hour which was a half-hour comedy program played across the United States. Belushi achieved national fame for his work on Saturday Night Live. Once he turned 30, Animal House was the number one film in the United States, The Blues Brothers: Briefcase Full of Blues was the number one album, and Saturday Night Live was the highest rated late night television program. Even with all his success and fame, Belushi had a different lifestyle and behavior that was not seen by the people watching his shows (Peele 2011).
At age eighteen, Bob had started a dance act with his girl friend Millie Rosequest, but it did not last long. Bob soon teamed up with another dancer named George Burd. They took their act to New York and worked at a lot of vaudeville show houses. It was at one of these places where Bob was asked to do the announcing in between acts. Bob's comedic talent and acts took hold and lead to the beginning of his solo career. In less than five years Bob had become the most sought after talent and the # 1 hit in the vaudeville circuit.
In school he was the class clown and was sent to a special school for rowdy boys. In his new school his teacher was Mary Forchic. She saw that he was a great comedian and she put that into her lessons to make them more understandable for Bill. She made the lessons fun for him and made it easier to learn. He said that she made him what he is today. After a couple years he went back to his old school and even though his grades were dropping he still kept it together.
His family moved to Chicago when he was young. He began theater as a call or stagehead at McVickers Theatre in Chicago. After 2 years, he went to work for John E. Owens at the Variety Theatre in New Orleans. The first stage role he got was in 1859 when he was at the age of 22, in The Little Treasurer. When he made his way back to the north, he was with the onset of the American Civil War. By the early 1860’s, he was appearing in billed roles
Just imagine being the most decorated man in History and a movie star, but no one really knowing who you are. This man had done so much for our country during World War II and more people need to know who he is and what he has done. Audie Murphy is the most decorated Soldier in History and he is basically gone an forgotten about. Although we cannot bring Audie Murphy back, we need to inform more people about him and his accomplishments in the Military and civilian life.
He started having major roles in movies, and even wrote for different shows. He started to extract different kinds of races to his comedian stand up shows. Some downs Pryor had in the late 60s was he walked off stage in Las Vegas asked himself what he was doing and called himself a joke, Pryor then began to fade away from the Hollywood lights and find himself. Once he came back to comedy he took off, his way off comedy was different start telling us about his personal life. Another set back in the 70s Pryor had was, he was put on probation after shooting his wife’s car, and he also had his one of many heart attacks in
Born in Massapequa, New York in 1954, Seinfeld soon discovered the attention that making jokes could garner him, and he admits to having been a class clown throughout his education. After college, Seinfeld starting touring the nation's comedy clubs and college campuses with his odd brand of observational humor. Seinfeld would notice something from society, someone who talked too close to another person for example, and h...
Robin Williams started his soon-to-be successful career as an improvisational comedian in comedy clubs. After achieving major success as a comedian, he began guest starring on a television show called Happy Days. After the show reached its end, he landed his own television show called Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams Biography.com). According to Dave Itzkoff article, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63,” it says that Robin Williams television show Mork and Mindy, was debuted in September 1978 on ABC. Within two weeks, it had reached number seven on the Nielsen ratings.
born in Portland, Marine on Sept 21, 1947. He was raised by his mother, Nellie Pillsbury,
Bobby Flay is one the world’s most famous chef,but just like everyone else he started out as a normal child just trying to make it in life. Born on December 10. 1964. Robert William Flay was raised in New york city by his Irish American separated parents who passed down the red hair and freckles to their son Bill and Dorothy Flay as a young child bobby use to organize his mom grocery list, made his own after school snack with a unique twist each time. He even ask for his own easy bake oven as a child, But he was not very interested in school. He went to a few catholic schools before dropping out at age 17 in tenth grade. After dropping out of school he managed to get his first professional job in 1982. Flay’s father was the manager of the
On that spring break, he met his wife Catherine Cote; they get married after one year of knowing each other. They married in July 1989. They decided to move to Sacramento, where he wrote his second novel, which also never published. He works in a lot of jobs from real state appraisal to waiting tables, and over the phone he sells dental products. In 1990, he work with Billy Mills on a book that was published, but although the book received the poor publicity it sold 50,000 copies in the first year. In 1992, he moved to North Carolina...
Around age eight his very own father introduced Downey to drugs. His addiction started to become serious as he entered his twenties. When he acted in the movie Less Than Zero, he played the role of a cocaine addicted, which fit him well. Downey said that, "Until that movie, I took my drugs after work and on the weekends." He then stated "Maybe I'd turn up hung over on the set, but no more so than the stuntman. That changed on Less Than Zero. I was playing this junkie-faggot guy, and, for me, the role was like the ghost of Christmas future. The character was an exaggeration of myself. Then things changed, and, in some ways, I became an exaggeration of the character. That last...