Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2008
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That’s Entertainment
Cedric the Entertainer appears at Resorts Superstar Theater at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21. Tickets are $60.
Cedric “Ceddy Bear” Kyles, better known as Cedric the Entertainer, brings his crowd-pleasing comedy to Resorts on June 21.
Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Cedric was an insurance man before taking the leap into full-time comedy. His breakthrough came in 1992 when he co-starred on TV’s It's Showtime at the Apollo, and his star quickly rose. He soon appeared on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam and BET’s ComicView, which he would later host. In 1994, Cedric won the Richard Pryor Comic of the Year Award.
By 1996 he had turned his attention to acting both on television (The Steve Harvey Show) and in films (Big Momma’s House, Barbershop, Johnson Family Vacation and Madagascar, in which he provided the voice of a lemur). Cedric traveled the country as a headliner with Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac, a tour which inspired the Spike Lee documentary The Original Kings of Comedy.
For all his multi-media success, it’s great to see Cedric where he started: standing up, facing a mic and an audience full of fans.
