award winning and critically celebrated Chappelle’s Show as
‘Ashy Larry’, the 70’s jheri curled ‘Beautiful’, and numerous other characters
he’s played. Donnell is the franchise player Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan
wanted as a writer and prime time player on their team. Since Dave Chappelle
had business to take care of in Africa, Donnell was asked to step into the huge
shoes Dave left behind, and host the Lost Episodes. “Hilarious” is what Linda
Stasi of The New York Post calls Donnell’s performance as host.
His
unique brand of observational humor earned Donnell co-hosting duties On Power
105’s (NY’s #1 Hip Hop and R&B radio station) morning show “Egypt and Ashy
in the Morning”. He is now co-hosting “The Big Tigger Morning Show” on WPGC in
Washington DC. Currently, Donnell can be seen regularly on E!’s hit show
“Chelsea Lately,” MTV’s new show “Hatin.’”. His new 1 Hour Stand-Up “Ashy to
Classy” premiered on Comedy Central October 23, 2010 is also available in
stores on DVD. He also enjoyed reprising his character of Day-Day Price on
HBO’s Emmy-Award winning series “The Wire” during a 3-episode arc, during the
show’s final season (2007- 2008). In 2007, Donnell co-created and starred in
Heavy.com’s hit web series “From Ashy to Classy”, in which Donnell portrays the
loveable yet clueless culture critic, Ashford Lawrence. The series was picked
up for a second round of episodes and remains one of Heavy.com most popular
shows. Additionally, Donnell has starred in “Reality Bites Back” for Comedy
Central and tours heavily with his stand up dates.
Donnell has
performed his intelligently bold stand-up throughout the U.S., Europe, and the
Caribbean. He has appeared on award winning Law & Order series, Special
Victims Unit (SVU) and Criminal Intent (CI) and has also appeared on NBC’s
Third Watch and the Emmy award winning HBO Special: The Corner. Growing up,
this Washington, D.C. native used humor as a means of persuasion with the
ladies and whipped out his wicked wit as a weapon of mass destruction in verbal
battle. While in the Air Force, Donnell’s wordplay shotdown more military
personnel than the G.I. issued arms. When Donnell returned to the States and
settled into civilian life, he decided to check out the local comedy scene in
D.C. He quickly became the “official heckler” as he ate comedians alive from
the audience.
Source: http://www.donnellrawlings.com/about/
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