Aries Spears
Aries Spears was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on April 3rd, 1975 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 49, Aries Spears biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Aries Spears (born April 3, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from New York City.
Spears appeared on Fox's sketch comedy program MADtv, making him the second longest-serving cast member on the show behind Michael McDonald.
Look, I'm Smiling. He released Aries Spears, a comedy in 2011.
Early life
Spears was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York when he was a year or two old. Doris Spears, his mother, is a jazz singer. At the age of 11, the Spears moved to Arthur M. Judd Elementary School in New Jersey. At 14, he performed stand-up comedy in several comedy clubs in New York City. At the age of 17, he was banned from fighting during his sophomore year at North Brunswick Township High School in North Brunswick Township. Spears started doing his own sketch routine around his neighborhood.
Spears said that his first stand-up comedy was doing appearances at the Uptown Comedy Club in Harlem, and that Spears remembered himself doing impressions of James Brown and Jack Nicholson during his first stand-up comedy.
Career
Spears' first television appearance was on Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam, followed by It's Showtime at the Apollo (1987). He moved to Los Angeles in 1992, landed a recurring role on A Different World (1993) and became a regular at The Comedy Store, The Improv and The Laugh Factory. Other television credits include Crosstown Traffic, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993) and Soul Train.
At 16, Spears landed a part in the movie Malcolm X. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in a starring role opposite Glenn Frey in South of Sunset (1993). Spears's other movie appearances include Home of Angels (1994), The Pest (1997), Jerry Maguire in which he played Teepee, brother of Rod Tidwell (1996), Out-of-Sync (1995), and The Proud Family (2003).
He joined the cast of MADtv during its 3rd season in 1997, and he left at the end of its 10th season in 2005. During his stay, he created characters such as comedian Belma Buttons (co-host of fictional BET show "Reality Check"), Dollar Bill Montgomery (a host of an urban parody of Politically Incorrect called "Real **********ing Talk with Dollar Bill Montgomery"), James Brown Jr. (co-host of Cabana Chat), and controversial rapper Emcee Esher. He is well known for his impressions of celebrities, including rappers Jay-Z, Kanye West, LL Cool J, DMX, and Snoop Dogg actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Denzel Washington, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as fellow comedians Eddie Murphy and Paul Mooney.
Spears appeared in a 2nd-season episode of Mind of Mencia, which parodied Jamie Foxx's role in Kanye West's music video for "Gold Digger." He also appeared in the 2006 movie Hood of Horror. Spears performed in the TV series The Underground and voiced the character Wizard Kelly in the animated television series The Proud Family.
Spears appeared in two episodes of Frank Caliendo's sketch comedy show Frank TV as Shaquille O'Neal.
He appeared alongside Cedric the Entertainer and other comedians in the All Star Comedy Jam in 2009.
His 2011 stand-up comedy special Aries Spears: Hollywood, Look I'm Smiling was shown on Showtime. According to Deadline Hollywood, Spears was expected to appear in the dark comedy feature film directed by Vladislav Kozlov The Immortalist in 2020, along with Franco Nero, Sherilyn Fenn, Paul Rodriguez, and Jeff DuJardin.