Godfrey Net Worth 2024

What Is Godfrey’s Net Worth?

Godfrey is an American comedian, actor, author, and producer who has a net worth of $4 million. Godfrey has starred within the stand-up comedy specials “Godfrey: Black by Accident” (2011) and “Godfrey: Regular Black” (2016), and he has written for the HBO Max sketch comedy sequence “That Damn Michael Che” (2021). Godfrey has greater than 50 performing credit to his title, together with the movies “Zoolander” (2001), “Johnson Family Vacation” (2004), “Soul Plane” (2004), “The Cookout” (2004), “Phat Girlz” (2006), and “The Binge” (2020) and the tv sequence “Louie” (2010–2011), “Deadbeat” (2014), “Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter” (2017), “Lucha Underground” (2017–2018), and “South Side” (2021). He has lent his voice to animated tasks resembling “The Mr. Men Show” (2008–2009), “Black Dynamite” (2014), “Steven Universe” (2014–2016), “Our Cartoon President” (2018), and “Human Resources” (2022), and he produced “Godfrey: Regular Black” in addition to the movie “Unemployed” (2008), the particular “In Godfrey We Trust: 2020 Year in Review” (2021), and his episode of “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready” (2021). Godfrey hosted the Fox sport present “Bullseye” in 2015, and he hosts the podcast “In Godfrey We Trust,” on which he “joins a few of his finest mates in comedy, Hip-Hop and Hollywood to speak present occasions, popular culture, race points, motion pictures, music, TV and Kung Fu.”

Early Life

Godfrey was born Godfrey C. Danchimah, Jr. on July 21, 1969, in Lincoln, Nebraska. His dad and mom are Nigerian (of the Igbo tribe), and so they immigrated to the United States in the course of the Nigerian Civil War, which lasted from mid-1967 to early 1970. Godfrey’s uncle was Nigerian musician Sonny Okosun, who was the chief of the Ozzidi band and was recognized for protest songs about freedom and Pan-Africanism. Godfrey grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and he studied at Lane Technical College Preparatory High School. After commencement, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign on an educational scholarship and majored in psychology. As a college pupil, Godfrey was a member of the varsity soccer group, and he found that he had a expertise for comedy whereas acting at a expertise present for brand spanking new members of the soccer group.

Career

Godfrey spent the early ’90s honing his comedy expertise at Chicago’s All Jokes Aside, and in 1995, he started performing in New York on the Comic Strip Live and Carolines on Broadway. After signing with the William Morris Talent Agency, Godfrey began working in tv, beginning with warm-up comedian gigs for the reveals “Cosby” and “Soul Man.” He first appeared on digital camera on NBC’s “Friday Night Videos,” and he carried out on the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2000 and acquired his personal episode of “Comedy Central Presents” in 2005. Godfrey appeared within the movies “Original Gangstas” (1996), “Chain Reaction” (1996), “In the Weeds” (2000), “30 Years to Life” (2001), “Zoolander” (2001), “Johnson Family Vacation” (2004), “Soul Plane” (2004), “The Cookout” (2004), “Virginia” (2005), “Short Fuse” (2005), “Phat Girlz” (2006), “Dead Body” (2007), “A Dennis the Menace Christmas” (2007), and “Unemployed” (2008), and he’s credited as a author and actor within the 2008 movies “Bum Boot Camp” and “The Sweep.”

Godfrey guest-starred on “LateLine” (1999), “Third Watch” (2002), and “30 Rock” (2009), and he hosted “Thunderbox” (2000), “Rock of Ages” (2000), “30 by 30: Kid Flicks” (2001), “I Bet You Will” (2002), and “The Celebrity Look-Alike Show” (2003). He appeared on “The It Factor” (2002), “It’s Showtime on the Apollo” (2002), “I Love the ’80s Strikes Back” (2003), “I Love the ’90s” (2004), “Black within the 80s” (2005), “I Love the Holidays” (2005), “Celebrity Paranormal Project” (2006), “I Love the New Millennium” (2008), “NESN Comedy All-Stars” (2008), “BET News” (2008), and “truTV Presents: World’s Dumbest…” (2008), and from 2008 to 2009, he voiced  Mr. Stubborn, Mr. Tall, and Mr. Metal on the animated sequence “The Mr. Men Show.” Godfrey appeared within the movies “Like Lambs” (2016), “The Hudson Tribes” (2016), “Rapid Eye Movement” (2019), “The Binge” (2020), “The Truth About Santa Claus” (2020), “Americanish” (2021), and “DOMINO: Battle of the Bones” (2021), and he was featured within the documentaries “I Am Comic” (2010), “Stars & Music” (2011), and “The Science of Doctor Who” (2012).

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Godfrey guest-starred on the FX sequence “Louie” in 2010 and 2011, then he appeared on “The Heart, She Holler” (2011), “Juste pour rire” (2013), “Insane Clown Posse Theater” (2013), “Deadbeat” (2014), “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (2014), “Benders” (2015), “South Side” (2021), “Harlem” (2021), and “That Damn Michael Che” (2021–2022). He performed Plaid Jeff on Adult Swim’s “Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter” (2017) and had a recurring function as FBI Agent Winter on the El Rey Network’s “Lucha Underground” (2017–2018), and he co-hosted truTV’s “Upload with Shaquille O’Neal” in 2013. In 2021, Godfrey joined the solid of the VH1 sequence “Wild ‘n Out,” and in 2022, he appeared in W. Kamau Bell’s Showtime miniseries “We Need To Talk About Cosby,” the TV sequence “So Dumb it is Criminal Hosted by Snoop Dogg,” and the Vice documentary sequence “Dark Side of Comedy.” He additionally wrote, produced, and starred within the 2021 particular “In Godfrey We Trust: 2020 Year in Review,” through which he recapped the 12 months, “tackling race, popular culture, social points and politics in his trademark comedic ranting type.”

Awards and Nominations

In 2021, Godfrey was named Best Supporting Actor in an American Indie for “Americanish.” “That Damn Michael Che” has earned him a Black Reel Awards for Television nomination for Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Comedy/Variety Sketch Series.

Real Estate

Godfrey owns residences in New York City and Los Angeles. In 2006 he paid $350,000 for a modest residence within the Bronx, New York that was as soon as owned by jazz singer and actress Maxine Sullivan. Maxine lived within the residence for greater than 4 many years. After some minor renovations, Godfrey offered the house in 2016 for $390,000.