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What is Rickey Smiley’s net worth?
Rickey Smiley is a stand-up comedian, radio and tv persona, and actor who has a net worth of $2.5 million. Rickey Smiley is finest identified for his prank telephone calls. He serves because the host of the nationally syndicated radio program “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show,” and beforehand starred on the tv sitcom “The Rickey Smiley Show” and the truth collection “Rickey Smiley For Real.” In 2002 Rickey performed the function of “Santa Claus” within the Ice Cube movie “Friday After Next.” That identical yr he appeared as “Snitch Mitch” within the Ice Cube film “All About the Benjamins.” In the 2008 Ice Cube film he appeared as his character “Bernice Jenkins.” Among his different credit, he appeared within the movies “First Sunday” and “Baggage Claim.”
Early Life and Education
Rickey Smiley was born as Broderick Smiley on August 10, 1968 in Birmingham, Alabama. For his larger training, he attended Alabama State University in Montgomery.
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Stand-up Comedy
Early in his profession as a stand-up comedian, Smiley carried out on such tv reveals as “Def Comedy Jam,” “Snaps,” and “Showtime on the Apollo.” He additionally hosted the thirteenth season of the BET stand-up comedy present “Comic View” in 2004. In his comedy routines, Smiley sometimes performs quite a lot of colourful fictional characters, resembling Bernice Jenkins, Rusty Dale, and Lil’ Daryl.
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Radio Career
In 2004, Smiley turned the morning present persona for the Dallas, Texas radio station KBFB. He turned identified on the station for his elaborate prank calls, which contain him roleplaying as varied characters. Some of Smiley’s most notable prank calls embrace “Buried Alive,” wherein he pretends to be a narcoleptic working at a funeral dwelling who’s unintentionally buried alive; “Uncle Melvin,” wherein he prank calls his uncle; and “She P-E-E-D,” which ends with the recipient of the decision, an aged woman, laughing so exhausting that she pees on herself. In 2008, Smiley signed a take care of Syndication One to take his radio program nationwide as “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.” The present is heard on many mainstream city and concrete grownup modern stations within the United States.
Television Career
In 2011, Smiley turned a number on the newly created Fox-produced tv program “Dish Nation,” which options tabloid information and commentary on popular culture. For the second season of the present, he was joined by his forged mates from “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” in Atlanta. Smiley remained on “Dish Nation” till 2019. Meanwhile, he appeared on plenty of different tv reveals. From 2012 to 2014, he starred on his personal sitcom, “The Rickey Smiley Show,” which aired on TV One. After that, from 2014 to 2016, he cohosted the Stellar Awards.
Smiley went on to land his personal actuality collection, “Rickey Smiley For Real,” which premiered on TV One in 2015. The collection adopted Smiley as he balanced his profession and his private life as a father. “Rickey Smiley For Real” ran for 5 seasons via 2018. Elsewhere on tv, Smiley made many appearances on the Bravo actuality collection “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” between 2014 and 2018. He additionally cohosted the Black Music Honors from 2017 to 2020, and cohosted the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration in 2021.
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Film Career
Smiley made his characteristic movie debut within the 2002 stoner comedy “Friday After Next,” the third movie within the “Friday” franchise starring Ice Cube. He reunited with Ice Cube in 2008 for the crime comedy “First Sunday,” which additionally featured Katt Williams and Clifton Powell from “Friday After Next.” In the movie, Smiley performed his common stand-up character Bernice Jenkins. His subsequent movie was the 2010 direct-to-video dance drama “Stomp the Yard: Homecoming,” a sequel to “Stomp the Yard.” Three years after that, Smiley appeared in David E. Talbert’s romcom “Baggage Claim,” which Talbert tailored from his ebook of the identical identify.
Personal Life
Smiley was beforehand married for 12 years to Brenda Morris, with whom he had 4 youngsters: Brandon, D’Essence, Aaryn, and Malik. In the summer season of 2020, their daughter Aaryn was shot throughout a street rage incident. Later, in early 2023, their 32-year-old son Brandon killed himself through intentional drug overdose.
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