Tyrone (Ty) Barnett (born 1975) is an American actor and stand-up comic.

Career

Barnett made his first television appearance in 2003 on CBS's '' Star Search'' He cites

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and Richard Pryor as major influences. Ty Barnett was born, raised and attended high school on the south side of Chicago. After high school, he served in the United States Army for six years and was discharged in 1996. He was voted "Up-and-coming Comedian of the Year" in 2002 at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and named "Outstanding Performer" at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival. In 2003, he made it to the semi-finals of CBS's ''Star Search'' and by 2005 first appeared on CBS's ''

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''. He was featured on '' Comedy Central Presents'' and was the 2006 runner-up on the NBC reality show '' Last Comic Standing''. He has appeared on '' The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', ''P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy'', and in two episodes of ''

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''. Barnett has also appeared in the feature film ''

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'', as the opening act for

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, in ''Premium Blend''. He also auditioned for

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in 2020 where he was eliminated in the Judge Cuts.

References

External links

Official website''Last Comic Standing'' profile
* 1975 births Living people Male actors from Chicago American male television actors Male actors from Illinois Last Comic Standing contestants African-American male actors Comedians from Illinois 21st-century American comedians 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people {{US-comedian-stub