Eddie Griffin | |
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Birth name | Edward Rubin Griffin |
Born | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | July 15, 1968
Medium | Stand-up, film, television |
Years active | 1989–present |
Genres | Improvisational comedy, observational comedy, blue comedy, satire |
Subject(s) | African-American culture, recreational drug use, human sexuality, race relations, politics, racism, religion, everyday life |
Spouse | Carla Griffin
(m. 1984; div. 1997)Rochelle Griffin
(m. 2002; div. 2009)Nia Rivers
(m. 2011; div. 2012)Ko Lee (m. 2017) |
Children | 11 |
Website | eddiegriffin |
Edward Rubin Griffin (born July 15, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for portraying Eddie Sherman in the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, the title character in the 2002 comedy film Undercover Brother, and Tiberius Jefferson "T.J." Hicks in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also portrayed Lester Matthews in John Q. (2002), Orpheus in Scary Movie 3 (2003), Pope Sweet Jesus in Norbit (2007), and voiced Richard Pryor on Black Dynamite (2012–2015). Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.[1]