Doug Williams (born June 25, 1969) is an American

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from

Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 202 ...

Early life and education

Williams was born in

. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1990, five years before graduating from

Alabama State University Alabama State University (ASU) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, ASU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. History Alabama State University was founded in 1867 as the Lin ...

in 1995.

Career

After college, Williams moved to Los Angeles where he landed small roles in the 1996 remake of ''

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'' and ''

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''. Since then, he has had guest roles on many sitcoms, including ''

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''. Doug Williams has served as host and executive producer of "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up" for the past four seasons. Williams voiced plans to co-write his own TV sitcom titled ''Domestic Doug''. The show centered around protagonist "Doug Salter", a stand-up comedian trying to make it in Hollywood, not unlike Williams himself. The project never came to fruition.

Emmitt Smith roast

Doug Williams gained internet notoriety in the mid-2000s when a clip of him at a 2002

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surfaced on the internet.

Jamie Foxx Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film '' Ray'', for which he won the ...

, who hosted the event, continuously interrupted Williams' performance, speaking into his own microphone and making sarcastic remarks, acting as Williams's conscience; "Maybe I should say something nice about Emmitt and... wrap it up", "or maybe I should say something about how black people have to struggle. Yeah, that'll get em on my side." In February 2010, Williams spoke about the incident in an interview with

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: "I think a lot of people read more into it than it was. It was a roast, I'm not a roast-type of comedian. The situation just kind of caught me off-guard. I was new at the time. I was new to that environment. I was new to roasting. It's one of those things that happened and I'm better for it. It was a long time ago, I've learned a lot since then and I've come a long way since then." He added, "At that time, Jamie Foxx was an established well known comedian. Nobody knew who I was. It was a situation where no matter what happened, I wasn't going to get the best of him in that setting."LAist: Seven Questions: Doug Williams, Comedian

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

*
www.dougwilliams.net
– official site
comedycentral.com
– stand-up comedy clips Living people American stand-up comedians African-American male comedians American male comedians 21st-century American comedians Writers from Montgomery, Alabama Male actors from Montgomery, Alabama 21st-century African-American people 1969 births {{tv-actor-stub