“I'd always do bits on street corners like Richard Pryor's Mudbone character. And my friends kept telling me, You could make money doing that.'”

American stand-up comedian and actor

Eddie Griffin is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his work in film and television, especially for playing Eddie Sherman in the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie and for leading the 2002 comedy Undercover Brother. He also appeared as T.J. Hicks in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Lester Matthews in John Q., Orpheus in Scary Movie 3, and Pope Sweet Jesus in Norbit. From 2012 to 2015, he voiced Richard Pryor in Black Dynamite. Comedy Central ranked him at number 62 on its list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.