Paul Mooney AKA Paul Gladney Born: 4-Aug-1941 Birthplace: Shreveport, LA [1] Died: 19-May-2021 Location of death: Oakland, CA Cause of death: Heart Attack
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Comic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Negrodamus Born likely in Shreveport, Louisiana, grew up in Oakland, California. Mooney became a comic writer for Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor. But he is probably best known as "Negrodamus" on Dave Chappelle's show, doing some manner of black Nostradamus: Why do white people love Wayne Brady? Because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X. [1] Paul Mooney, Black Is the New White (2009), Chapter 6. While Mooney not actually state it outright, his narrative indicates that Shreveport is his birthplace, 1941, "in a house with a midwife."
Father: George Gladney Mother: LaVoya Ealy Wife: (div., twin sons) Son: Daryl Mooney (twin) Son: Dwayne Mooney (twin) Wife: Yvonne Carothers (m. 1973, div., one son) Son: Shane
High School: Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer
TELEVISION Chappelle's Show Writer (2003-05) In Living Color Writer (1990-91) Saturday Night Live Writer Good Times Writer Sanford and Son Writer
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Meet the Blacks (1-Apr-2016) Sunset Strip (16-Mar-2012) · Himself Good Hair (18-Jan-2009) · Himself The Old Settler (25-Apr-2001) Bamboozled (18-Sep-2000) In the Army Now (12-Aug-1994) Hollywood Shuffle (20-Mar-1987) Bustin' Loose (27-May-1981) · Marvin The Buddy Holly Story (18-May-1978) Which Way Is Up? (1977) · Insp. Caine FTA (21-Jul-1972) · Himself
Author of books:
Black Is the New White (2007, memoir)
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