Musical comedy, Political satire, Observational comedy, Character comedy, Black comedy (as actor) Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life and Intuition. His third album Intuition was released in 2008 and was anchored by the single “Blame It”. Foxx released his fourth studio album, Best Night of My Life, in 2010. Foxx was born as Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases. in addition his recurrent in Living Color character LaWanda shared names with Redd’s friend and co-worker, LaWanda Page. As a producer, Foxx played a role in in the Flow with Affion Crockett on Fox in summer 2011.
