Born likely in Shreveport, Louisiana, grew up in Oakland, California. Mooney became a comic writer for Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor. But he is probably best known as "Negrodamus" on Dave Chappelle's show, doing some manner of black Nostradamus: Why do white people love Wayne Brady? Because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.
[1] Paul Mooney, Black Is the New White (2009), Chapter 6. While Mooney not actually state it outright, his narrative indicates that Shreveport is his birthplace, 1941, "in a house with a midwife."
Father: George Gladney
Mother: LaVoya Ealy
Wife: (div., twin sons)
Son: Daryl Mooney (twin)
Son: Dwayne Mooney (twin)
Wife: Yvonne Carothers (m. 1973, div., one son)
Son: Shane
High School: Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer
TELEVISION
Chappelle's Show Writer (2003-05)
In Living Color Writer (1990-91)
Saturday Night Live Writer
Good Times Writer
Sanford and Son Writer
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Meet the Blacks (1-Apr-2016)
Sunset Strip (16-Mar-2012) · Himself
Good Hair (18-Jan-2009) · Himself
The Old Settler (25-Apr-2001)
Bamboozled (18-Sep-2000)
In the Army Now (12-Aug-1994)
Hollywood Shuffle (20-Mar-1987)
Bustin' Loose (27-May-1981) · Marvin
The Buddy Holly Story (18-May-1978)
Which Way Is Up? (1977) · Insp. Caine
FTA (21-Jul-1972) · Himself
Author of books:
Black Is the New White (2007, memoir)
