What you can expect from tonight's Emmys host, CedEntertainer:
Cedric the Entertainer’s favorite show growing up was “Get Smart.” He loves the comedy of Billy Crystal. And he remembers when saying “damn” on TV was a big deal.
He has fond memories of sitting with his grandmother in the rural town of Caruthersville, Mo., watching their favorite shows. “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” “The Jackie Gleason Show.” . “We grew up in that TV era where it was only a few stations, so the TV stars were big stars, you know? I remember that with nostalgia.”Today, he is one of those network stars.
Playing a small club one night early in his career, he noticed the emcee would introduce each act as “Our next comedian …” But Cedric didn’t have enough material to consider himself a comedian; his comedy sets also included a little singing, a little poetry, a little of whatever he was feeling that night. “So I just told the dude to call me an entertainer,” he says. “He introduced me as Cedric the Entertainer, and that was it.
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