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Role
  
Stand-up comedian

Name
  
Wyatt Cenac


Website
  
wyattcenac.com

Years active
  
1995–present

Books
  
Earth (The Book)

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Born
  
April 19, 1976 (age 48) (
1976-04-19
)
New York City, New York

Education
  
Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Awards
  
WGA Award for Best Comedy/Variety - (Including Talk) Series - Television

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

Movies and TV shows
  
The Daily Show, Growing Up And Other Lies, Medicine for Melancholy, Hits, Fanboy & Chum Chum

Similar People
  
Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Aasif Mandvi, Rory Albanese, Stephen Colbert

Profiles


Occupation
  
Actor comedian, writer

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Wyatt Cenac (; born April 19, 1976) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He was a correspondent and a writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012. He currently stars in the TBS series People of Earth.

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Ancestry

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He is of Grenadian descent and according to the results of a DNA test, revealed in a 2014 YouTube video uploaded by Okayplayer, Cenac's maternal ancestry can be traced to the Yoruba people of Nigeria.

Early life

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Cenac was born in New York on April 19, 1976. Cenac's father, Wyatt Cenac, Sr. was a New York City cab driver who was born in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada in 1944. He was shot and killed in his cab when Cenac was 4, when Cenac moved with his mother and stepfather to Dallas, Texas. Growing up, he frequently visited his maternal grandmother and spent summers with her in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. However, Cenac has had no contact and has no communication or involvement with his paternal family side. He attended high school in Texas at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. While in elementary school, he became friends with comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan, who also introduced him to comic books. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to Los Angeles to further his career. As of October 2014, Cenac lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Career

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Having previously worked for three years as a writer on King of the Hill, Cenac garnered public attention in The Doomed Planet comedy sketch in which he did an impression of then-senator Barack Obama, discussing possible campaign posters.

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In June 2008, Cenac was hired as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. After making several comedic appearances along with other correspondents, Cenac filed his first field report on July 21, 2008; titled "Baruch Obama," the report discussed Jewish voters' opinions of Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. He continued to integrate satirical Black-oriented material in his Daily Show segments, including "Rapper or Republican" until his final Daily Show appearance on December 13, 2012. In a July 2015 appearance on WTF with Marc Maron, Cenac revealed that his departure from The Daily Show stemmed in part from a heated argument he had with Jon Stewart over a June 2011 Daily Show bit about Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain. Despite this, Wyatt appeared on Stewart's final episode of Daily Show; both agreed that they're "good", a reference to the Maron podcast.

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In October 2009, he worked with rapper Slim Thug on the music video "Still a Boss", a parody of how the recession is affecting the rap community. Cenac costarred in Medicine for Melancholy, an independent drama by Barry Jenkins released in 2008 that includes issues of African American identity and gentrification in San Francisco.

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Cenac plays the voice of Lenny and Michael Johnson in the Nickelodeon animated series Fanboy & Chum Chum.

Cenac guest-starred on the MC Frontalot album Solved. Cenac's first hour-long comedy special, Comedy Person, premiered May 14, 2011, on Comedy Central.

In October 2014, Netflix released Cenac's second comedy special, Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn. In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman. The following year, he appeared in a filmed segment with fellow comedians Rachel Feinstein and Alex Karpovsky on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Cenac's film roles include parts in Sleepwalk with Me and Hits, as well as a lead role in 2016's Jacqueline Argentine.

References

Wyatt Cenac Wikipedia


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