D.L. Hughley Net Worth 2024

What is D.L. Hughley’s net worth and wage?

D.L. Hughley is an American actor, stand-up comedian, radio host, and creator who has a net worth of $10 million. D.L. Hughley is probably greatest generally known as the unique host of BET’s “ComedianView” within the early ’90s. D.L. is likely one of the members of The Original Kings of Comedy, together with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac.

Early Life

D.L. Hughley, aka Darryl Lynn Hughley, was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on March 6, 1963. He is the son of Audrey and Charles Hughley, a Delta Air Lines upkeep employee. The family solely lived in Portsmouth for 2 months after D.L. was born earlier than they moved to California. He grew up in South Central, Los Angeles, the place he had a troubled time as a teen when he turned a member of avenue gang The Bloods. He was expelled from San Pedro High School, however turned his again on gang life and received his GED. He then began working for The Los Angeles Times.

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Career

Hughley began off as host of a BET stand-up comedy present, “ComedianView”, in 1992. He hosted the present till 1993 and gained recognition there. He received his personal present in 1998 which he starred in, in addition to wrote and produced, referred to as “The Hughleys.” The present ran 89 episodes over 4 seasons till 2002 on ABC and UPN. He briefly hosted a chat present for Comedy Central referred to as “Weekends on the D.L.” and he launched a comedy album in 2005.

D.L. has appeared within the film “Scary Movie 3m” and voiced the Gadgetmobile in “Inspector Gadget”, in addition to “Brer Fox in The Adventures of Brer Rabbit. He has appeared in episodes of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, “Scrubs” as Turk’s Brother, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Glory Daze”, and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” In June 2010, Hughley acted as a particular visitor moderator of ABC’s “The View.” He additionally guest-hosted “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

Hughley was chosen to host and write a comedy information present on CNN that lined world happenings in politics, popular culture, leisure, and sports activities. The present was titled “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News” and premiered in October 2008. However, in March 2009, after simply 5 months, Hughley selected to finish the present, citing a want to maneuver again to Los Angeles to be nearer to his family. He continued working with CNN as an LA-based contributor for the community.

In 2013, Highley appeared on the sixteenth season of “Dancing with the Stars”. He was paired with Cheryl Burke. Since March 2019, Hughley has hosted the discuss present “The D.L. Hughley Show” on TV One.

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Radio

In 2009 he began a radio present, The D.L. Hughley Morning Show, on station WRKS in New York City. After going up immediately towards fellow King of Comedy Steve Harvey’s Morning Show, Hughley’s present was later cancelled. In August 2010, Kiss FM dropped the syndicated program from its schedule and Hughley moved on. It was introduced on August 12, 2013 that REACH Media had finalized a cope with Hughley to host a brand new nationally syndicated afternoon drive present referred to as “The D.L. Hughley Show.”

Books

Hughley has written 4 books. “I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes is Ruining America” was revealed in July 2012. His second guide, “Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years” was revealed in June 2017. In June 2018, he launched “How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People.” On June 30, 2020, Hughley launched “Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace.”

Personal Life

Hughley has been married to LaDonna Hughley since February 1986. They have three youngsters, Ryan, Tyler, and Kyle. Kyle was identified with Asperger’s syndrome as a toddler, one thing Hughley has mentioned extensively.

In November of 2017, Hughley gave an interview on Angela Yee’s podcast, Lipservice, by which he detailed having an affair early in his marriage. Unknowingly, he conceived a toddler along with his extramarital lover. Tragically, the toddler was shaken to loss of life by his mom’s boyfriend at simply 9 months outdated. Ladonna realized of the tragedy and, deeply saddened and affected by the state of affairs, started giving his ex-lover monetary assist. LaDonna did this utterly unbeknownst to D.L, and he or she didn’t disclose it to D.L. for a few years.

On June 19, 2020, Hughley collapsed whereas acting at a membership in Nashville. He later examined optimistic for COVID-19. He had been asymptomatic, and subsequently, his son and a few of his radio present crew additionally examined optimistic for COVID.