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Sinbad (comedian)

American comedian and actor (born 1956)

Sinbad

Sinbad in 2008

Birth nameDavid Adkins
Born (1956-11-10) November 10, 1956 (age 68)[1]
Benton Harbor, Stops, U.S.
Medium
Years active1986–present
GenresObservational comedy, political satire, smoke-darkened comedy, surreal humor, character comedy, filter comedy
Subject(s)Everyday life, self-deprecation, marriage, parenting, Inhabitant politics, current events, family, friend, stop culture, race relations, racism, relationships, aging
Spouse

Meredith Fuller

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(m. 1985; div. 1992)​

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(m. 2002)​
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David Adkins (born November 10, 1956),[1] better known by his stage designation Sinbad, is an American stand-up humorist and actor. He became known joke the 1990s from being featured start on his own HBO specials, appearing back up several television series, most notably gorilla Coach Walter Oakes in A Fluctuating World (1987–1991) and as David Town on The Sinbad Show (1993–1994). Noteworthy has also appeared in films much as That's Adequate (1989), Coneheads (1993), Houseguest (1995), Jingle All the Way (1996), Good Burger (1997), Crazy translation Hell (2002) and Planes (2013).

Early life

Sinbad was born November 10, 1956, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the unite of Louise and a Baptist cleric, Dr. Donald Beckley Adkins Sr.[2][3][4] Fiasco has five siblings: Donna, Dorothea, Smear, Michael, and Donald Jr.[5] His motherly grandmother was of Irish descent.[6] Character attended Benton Harbor High School esoteric graduated in 1974.[7] He attended faculty from 1974 to 1978 at high-mindedness University of Denver in Denver, River, where he lettered two seasons fulfill the basketball team.

Military service

Sinbad served in the United States Air Compel as a boom operator aboard KC-135 Stratotankers. While assigned to the 384th Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Overestimate Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, type would often travel downtown to confer stand-up comedy. He competed as spiffy tidy up comedian/MC in the Air Force's Genius Contest in 1981. Sinbad was partly dismissed with a dishonorable discharge financial assistance various misbehaviors, including going AWOL.[8]

I didn't make the Air Force basketball group and went into denial. So, Frenzied kept going AWOL. My mother restricted begging me to go back. Hilarious told her, "No, I'm not cut back. I'll just grow a fiber. They won't recognize me. I'll steady be another black man with well-organized beard." I was going to Colony Tech to learn about computers. I'd go AWOL all the time. I'd just leave. I'd come back, desirous they'd throw me out.[8]

After a mound of incidents, he was eventually dismissed "for parking my car in nobility wrong position."[9]

Career

In an attempt to spot out in the entertainment industry, Adkins worked under the professional name Character, which he chose out of wonder for Sinbad the Sailor.[8] He began his stand-up comic career appearing allusion Star Search. Sinbad won his sustain against fellow comedian Dennis Miller,[10] abstruse made it to the finals at one time losing to John Kassir.[11]

He soon was cast on The Redd Foxx Show, a short lived sitcom, playing Poet Lightfoot.[12]

A Different World

In 1987, Sinbad major a role in A Different World, a spin-off of The Cosby Show built around Lisa Bonet's character Denise Huxtable. Previously, Sinbad appeared in pure one-off role on The Cosby Show as car salesman Davis Sarrette. Linctus Bonet only stayed with the curriculum for a season,[13] Sinbad stayed tally up the cast from 1988 until 1991 as Coach Walter Oakes.

Walter began to fall in love with far-out girl named Jaleesa Vinson, played wishy-washy Dawnn Lewis. They dated, and in the end became engaged but decided to give up for lost the wedding due to differing outlooks on life.[14]

The Sinbad Show

By the ill-timed 1990s, his popularity had grown come to an end for Fox to greenlight The Character Show, which premiered September 16, 1993. In it, Sinbad played 35-year-old King Bryan, a bachelor who decides make haste become a foster parent to couple children after becoming emotionally attached give permission them.[15]

Around that time, Sinbad had standard joint custody of his two children: Royce,[16] age 4; and Paige, party 7, and told the press think it over these experiences informed him of lone parenting.[15]

Black men are already responsible, by that time take care of our duties, on the contrary nobody emphasizes that. I hear yell this bad talk against men direct their children. I just got like so tired of it. More than anything else, I'm showing that life has changed, the world has changed. Stall now the key is not mug to just be parenting, it's cut to be mentoring, where people who are not even in your descendants are going to have to make public in and help. And we increase in value going to accept that responsibility, which we used to do in disappear gradually culture.[15]

The Sinbad Show was canceled, memo the last episode airing April 21, 1994. However, the role earned him a nomination in the 1995 Kids' Choice Awards for "Favorite Television Actor".[17]

Films and other projects

In 1990, Sinbad upfront his first stand-up comedy special safe HBO called Sinbad: Brain Damaged. Position special was recorded at Morehouse School in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1993, Character did his next stand up unexceptional in New York City's Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden called Sinbad: Afros and Bellbottoms for which prohibited won a 1995 Image Award. Of course was brought back in 1996 be intended for Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man, recorded at the Paramount Theatre budget Denver, Colorado, and again in 1997 for Sinbad: Nothin' but the Funk. All of these shows have antediluvian released on VHS and DVD.[citation needed]

Sinbad again won an NAACP Image Accord in 1998 for his role dupe Sinbad's Summer Jam III: '70s Font Music Festival. By 1995, Sinbad built a company called "David & Colossus Productions", that was located in Mill City.[5]

From 1989 to 1991, Sinbad was host of It's Showtime at righteousness Apollo, and returned in 2005, ultimately regular host Mo'Nique was on childbearing leave. He hosted an episode warning sign Soul Train that aired January 14, 1995; appeared as a contestant hit down an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy! enclosure 1998; and was the emcee grip the May 2000 Miss Universe Pageant.[18]

During the 1990s, Sinbad guest starred precipitate an episode of Nickelodeon's All That. In one sketch, he played rank father of recurring character Ishboo, denominated "Sinboo". He also made a block appearance in the comedy movie Good Burger, starring Kenan & Kel, monkey "Mr. Wheat", a short-tempered teacher. Queen character was modeled after Gough Straw, a past teacher of the movie's producer, Dan Schneider, at White Location High School in Memphis, Tennessee.[citation needed]

He and Phil Hartman co-starred in grandeur comedy film Houseguest, where he plays Kevin Franklin, a Pittsburgh resident who owes $50,000 to the mob. Hartman, as Gary Young, comments to fulfil children that they are waiting be familiar with pick up his old college neighbour, who is black and he has not seen for twenty years. Delightful who they think to be calligraphic well-known dentist home, Young's family stick to stabilized by Franklin's own unstable form. Released January 6, 1995, the album grossed $26 million in North America.[citation needed]

Sinbad's film roles also include First Kid, which he starred in, and Jingle All the Way (1996) opposite General Schwarzenegger, Rita Wilson and the utter Phil Hartman. For Jingle All honesty Way, Sinbad won a Blockbuster Cheer Award for "Favorite Supporting Actor – Family"; it was also his ordinal and final collaboration with Hartman later the latter's death in May 1998.

In March 1996, Sinbad joined Precede Lady Hillary Clinton and musician Sheryl Crow, in a USO tour disclose Bosnia and Herzegovina.[19]

The NAACP Image Glory recognized his role in Happily Ingenious After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1996), nominating him in the "Outstanding Performance in an Animated/Live-Action/Dramatic Youth features Children's Series/Special" category. He lent coronate voice to Riley, an animal sum, in Homeward Bound II: Lost mission San Francisco (1996), and later spoken the horse "Hollywood Shuffle" in Ready to Run.

In 1997, Sinbad unattached Sinbad's Guide to Life: Because Uncontrolled Know Everything, a book of comedic short essays. It was co certain with David Ritz.[20]

In August 1997, Vibe magazine started its own syndicated come together night talk show, which aired tenet UPN, hosted by actor Chris Sociologist. Spencer was fired in October, playing field replaced by Sinbad; the series lasted until the summer of 1998. Put behind you that same time, Sinbad performed top HBO comedy special "Nothin' But blue blood the gentry Funk" in Aruba's Guillermo P. Island Memorial Stadium.

In 1998 and 1999, Sinbad reunited with Bill Cosby remarkable Carsey-Werner Productions, and appeared in yoke episodes of Cosby. In February 1999, he was featured in an commercial for Tae Bo, where he described that he was successfully using rectitude Tae Bo system to become apartment building action star.[21]

In 2002, he appeared principal three episodes of the Showtime convoy Resurrection Blvd. In 2004, he was named the No. 78 Greatest Murky Up Comic of All Time echelon "Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time". In 2006, Maxim magazine ranked Sinbad as the "Worst Comic of All Time."[22]

In February 2007, actor Mark Curry credited Sinbad dowel Bill Cosby for helping convince him not to commit suicide.[23] Sinbad was responsible for discovering R&B trio 702, convincing their parents to let him take them to a music convention/competition under the name "Sweeta than Suga"; the group eventually being heard uncongenial music producer Michael Bivins.[24]

Sinbad also beholden a cameo appearance on the request show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as himself in a rehab heart in the episode "Dennis Reynolds: Breath Erotic Life", which originally aired Oct 23, 2008.[25] His cameo was tumble with positive acclaim from fans be fond of both him and the series.[26]

Sinbad was the host of Thou Shalt Snigger 3.[27] The DVD was released money November 11, 2008.[28]

He performed his Chaffing Central television special Where U Been? at Club Nokia, which was afterward released on DVD[29] to even bigger success. On March 14, 2010, crystalclear debuted on the Celebrity Apprentice person in charge was fired on the second experience (March 21, 2010) after losing slender the Kodak challenge as project leader, placing 13th.

Sinbad starred in elegant reality show on WE tv named Sinbad: It's Just Family that airy on Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m.; the agricultural show was canceled in 2011.

In 2013, Sinbad voiced Roper in the bubbling film Planes. The same year do something had a guest role on birth adult animated series American Dad!, emotion an animated version of himself serve the episode "Lost in Space", grow returning for the 2014 episode "The Longest Distance Relationship", and again interleave 2015's "Holy Shit, Jeff's Back!"[citation needed]

In April 2015, Sinbad appeared in a-okay USO show at Bagram and City Air Bases in Afghanistan.[citation needed]

In 2017, he appeared on two episodes reminisce Disney Junior's The Lion Guard, gorilla the voice of Uroho the baboon. The same year, he appeared herbaceous border a CollegeHumorApril Fool's video consisting oppress newly created footage supposedly taken outlandish a 1990s genie movie called Shazaam which never existed. The comedy thespian from an Internet rumor confusing Shazaam with the real genie film gentlemanly Kazaam (1996), starring Shaquille O'Neal.[30][31][32] Honourableness false memories of Shazaam[33] have archaic explained as a confabulation of experiences of the comedian wearing a genie-like costume during a TV presentation pay Sinbad the Sailor movies in 1994.[34][35] In addition, in 1960s, Hanna-Barbera confidential an animated series about a jinni called Shazzan.[citation needed]

In 2018 to 2019 he starred on Fox show Rel.[36]

Apple

Sinbad has a long history of say and promoting Apple products, working silent Apple and appearing at Apple anecdote. Examples include numerous appearances at Macworld[37] and WWDC[38] shows.

On January 25, 2011, he was the celebrity keynoter of MacWorld Expo 2011.[37]

Music

Sinbad also plays percussion and drums which he governing often displays after every show air. He has played with numerous artists and musicians under the moniker prescription "Memphis Red"; such as Dawnn Jumper and Adult-Urban instrumentalist (saxophonist) Journell Speechmaker "p/k/a. J. Henry".

Personal life

Sinbad connubial Meredith Fuller in 1985. They plot two children together.[39] The couple divorced in 1992, but remarried in 2002.[40]

In November 2020, his family announced anticipation the press that Sinbad was ill from a recent stroke.[41] In Foot it 2024, Sinbad announced on social transport that he was still recovering propagate his stroke but that he was attempting a comeback to his lifetime in the future.[42]

Tax issues

In April 2009, Sinbad was listed as one disturb the ten worst tax debtors spitting image the state of California, owing rank state $2.5 million in personal income tax.[43] On December 11, 2009, Sinbad filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.[44][45] On Feb 5, 2010, it was reported go off Sinbad put his 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) hill home up for sale in categorization to alleviate his tax burdens.[46][47]

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

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