They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

[citation needed] His role as Day-Day Jones was a breakthrough for the new actor who was already familiar to much of the audience from his stand-up work[citation needed]. Epps had a voice role in the 2001 movie Dr. Epps most recently starred alongside Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston in the 2012 remake of Sparkle in his first non-comedic role as the main antagonist Satin.

He is also known for playing L. Michael Elliot "Mike" Epps (born November 18 1970) is an American stand-up comedian actor film producer writer and rapper. He was the voice of Boog in Open Season 2 (the sequel to Open Season) but was replaced by Matthew J.