056 - Comedian Darryl Littleton
From Avert Your Eyes by Michael Gibson Jr
February 9, 2020 · 1h 1m · Season 1 · Episode 56
About this episode
Comedian Darryl Littleton discusses his career in comedy, writing, and producing.
This episode's guest is comedian Darryl Littleton. Darryl began his comedy career writing sketches for "The Tom Joyner Morning Show" on CBS Radio. Soon afterwards he became a regular at the world famous Comedy Store, adopted the stage name, "D'Militant" and landed a job as D. L. Hughley's exclusive writer when he hosted BET's "Comic View". Darryl was promoted to writer/producer and also penned material for Cedric the Entertainer, Sommore and Don DC Curry. Darryl's television credits include Robert Townsend's WB sitcom, "The Parent Hood", "Townsend Television" for Fox, HBO's "Def Comedy Jam", Comedy Central's "Make Me Laugh", Martin Lawrence's "1st Amendment", Telemundo's "Loco Comedy Jam", Byron Allen's "Comic's Unleashed" and ABC's "America's Funniest People" where he was the Grand Prize Winner. Darryl toured Europe and Asia as a stand-up comedian entertaining US military troops, released his comedy CD, "Am I Lying?!", won the prestigious Bay Area Black Comedy Competition on its 20th Anniversary, worked as a commentator for NPR and his first published book, "Black Comedians on Black Comedy", is taught at USC and was adapted into the Robert Townsend directed documentary, "Why We…
People in this episode
Host: Michael Gibson Jr
Guest: Darryl Littleton
Topics covered
- comedy
- stand-up
- writing
- television
- podcasting
- military entertainment
Keywords
- Darryl Littleton
- comedy career
- stand-up comedian
- writing for television
- Black comedy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CBS Radio, BET, NPR, Telemundo, Comedy Central, ABC
Books & works: Black Comedians on Black Comedy, Why We Laugh, Am I Lying?!, Too Raw for Mainstream
Places: Europe, Asia
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