Perseverance: Hollywood rejected his ideas. Now an award-winning Executive Producer.
Strawberry Letter
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed, Chris Spencer.
Chris Spencer is an actor, comedian, producer and director. He co-created and executive produced BET/Netflix's hit original series Real Husbands of Hollywood, a faux reality-TV satire, that has starred everyone from Chris Brown to Katie Courie. In its first season, he won a prestigious NAACP Image Award. The show is entirely based on a sketch Spencer created for the BET Awards in 2070 that immediately went viral. In addition to Real Husbands of Hollywood, Chris has been the head writer for countless award shows featuring hosts such as Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Jones and Cedric the Entertainer. He also wrote and Executive Produced Grown-ish, which is Freeform's spinoff of ABC's hit show Black-ish. He currently has major projects around town with Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart. “Chris Spencer...the Other Chris" or his TV credits, which include Blackish, Being Mary Jane, Black Love, Jimmy Kimmel, Def Comedy Jam or his own late-night talk show, VIBE. His film credits include Bad Ass, Black Dynamite, Sin, Sixth Man and Don't Be a Menace. He has published the bestselling book 750 Ways to Tell If You're Ghetto. His notable writer/producer projects also include The Emmy's, The ESPY Awards, The BET Awards, SNL and the MTV Video Music Awards...to name a few.
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