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What is Aries Spears’ Net Worth and Salary?
Aries Spears is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has a net worth of $4 million. Aries Spears was the second longest-serving comedian on Fox’s sketch comedy present “MADtv”, showing in 198 episodes.
Early Life
Aries Spears was born on April 3, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois and moved to New York as an toddler. His mom, Doris Spears, is a jazz singer. At age 11, Spears moved to New Jersey and attended Arthur M. Judd Elementary School. He turned a comedian at age 14 and commenced performing stand-up comedy in numerous comedy golf equipment round New York City.
His first get up comedy was doing impressions on the Upton Comedy Club in Harlem, and Spears remembers doing impressions of James Brown and Jack Nicholson throughout his first efficiency. Spears was expelled from his New Jersey highschool, North Brunswick Township High School, throughout his sophomore yr after getting right into a struggle with different college students.
Career
He continued doing comedy to fill his newfound free time and shortly broke into appearing with an look on “Def Comedy Jam” with Russell Simmons. Spears adopted that up with 1987’s “It’s Showtime on the Apollo.” By the early ’90s, he moved to Los Angeles and commenced appearing on “A Different World” and taking his comedy act to quite a lot of Hollywood venues, together with The Improv and The Laugh Factory.
He additionally appeared in “Malcolm X,” “South of Sunset”, “Home of Angels”, and “Jerry McGuire.” Other TV credit round this time embrace “Crosstown Traffic,” “The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.,” and “Soul Train.
MADtv
In 1997, Spears turned a part of the forged of “MADtv”, the place he stayed for eight seasons. Spears grew well-known for his celeb impersonations, mimicking LL Cool J, Eddie Murphy, Queen Latifah, 50 Cent, O.J. Simpson, Al Roker, and Shaq. He additionally impersonated Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to fellow comedians like Eddie Murphy and Paul Mooney.
Spears left on the finish of the present’s tenth season in 2005. During his time on the present, Spears not solely impersonated lots of of characters but in addition created characters equivalent to comedian Belma Buttons, co-host of the fictional BET present “Reality Check,” Dollar Bill Montgomery, a bunch of the city parody of “Politically Incorrect” referred to as “Real **********ing Talk with Dollar Bill Montgomery,” James Brown Jr. co-host of “Cabana Chat” and controversial rapper Emcee Esher. Aries appeared in 198 episodes and was the second longest-serving forged member on the present behind Michael McDonald.
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Life After Mad TV
Spears appeared in a season two episode of 2005’s Comedy Central present “Mind of Mencia”, which parodied Jamie Foxx’s position in Kanye West’s music video for “Gold Digger.” In 2006, Spears appeared within the film “Hood of Horror.” He was within the present “The Underground” and voiced the character Wizard Kelly in “The Proud Family.” He appeared as Shaquille O’Neal in two episodes of Frank Caliendo’s sketch comedy present “Frank TV.” Spears additionally appeared alongside Cedric the Entertainer and different comedians within the All Star Comedy Jam in 2009. Spears’ different TV and movie credit embrace “Love Chronicles”, “Josie and the Pussycats”, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”, “Out-of-Sync”, “The Boondocks,” “American Dad,” and “Black Dynamite”.
In 2011, Aries launched a get up comedy particular referred to as “Aries Spears: Hollywood, Look I’m Smiling.” It aired on Showtime. Spears is slated to seem at midnight comedy function movie “The Immoralist” in 2020.
Personal Life
Aries obtained married to Elisa Lerrgui in 2010. They divorced in 2014 and the star was ordered to purchase his former spouse a model new home in Florida, with the stipulations that the home Spears buys have to be the home of Elisa’s selecting and should price within the vary of $300-375 thousand {dollars}. Spears was additionally ordered to purchase Lerrgui a luxurious SUV within the worth vary of $60-70 thousand {dollars}.
Aries and Elisa reunited and obtained remarried on May 31, 2015. They separated once more on August 1, 2018 and had been divorced once more by 2019, citing irreconcilable variations. The couple has two youngsters collectively, Jordan and Jada.
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