Saturday night, comedian Mike Epps performed
to a sold out crowd at The Pearl inside Palms Casino Resort. The AFTER DARK
TOUR is Epps’ newest tour featuring an hour of new material centered around
family, life, fame and babies’ mamas, amongst other topics. He even brought up
the 2012 incident where his daughter took a video of him yelling at her (which
she gave to TMZ – true story!). No topics were off the table for the comedian
and the crowd loved it. Epps continues
to tour and act in all genres of film, his next movie Repentance is out Feb. 28
starring Forest Whitaker.
About
Mike Epps:
Mike
Epps has generated an extraordinary amount of buzz among his peers and within
the entertainment industry for being one of the funniest comedic actors to
emerge into the Hollywood scene.
He
was awarded his first NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role
in the Sony Pictures film, “Jumping the Broom.” He recently starred in the
Warner Brothers comedy “Hangover 3” and in 2012 starred in Sony’s “Sparkle”
opposite Whitney Houston and Jordan Sparks. He can soon be seen in the Nina
Simone bio-pic “Nina” starring opposite Zoe Saldana playing the legendary
Richard Prior who opened for the singer in the early 1960’s.
In
2010, Mike also starred in his third stand up special “Mike Epps: Underrated
and Never Faded” and “Mike Epps Presents…” both which aired on Showtime. He released his first comedy rap album called
“Funny Bidness: Da Album,” which featured Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock and Slim Thug to
name a few. That year also marked the release of his comedy DVD “Funny
Bidness.”
Since
2000, Epps has steadily climbed his way up the stand-up comedy ranks when he
was recognized by a national audience in 1995 when he appeared on the Def
Comedy Jam tour and on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam.
During a performance at LA’s Comedy Store, Epps caught the attention of
Ice Cube. That meeting led to the first
of three feature films they would do together; the cult hits “Next Friday,”
“Friday after Next,” and the New Line comedy “All About the Benjamins.” He also
starred in the Warner Brothers break out comedy “The Hangover” in 2009.
Other
features include the Paramount comedy, “The Fighting Temptations,” “Resident
Evil: Apocalypse,” “Bait,” “How High,” and the voice of Sonny in “Dr.Dolittle
2.”
Photo
credit Denise Truscello.
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