In this Episode, Donnell sits down with Rapper / Actor / Comedian T.I. to talk about life and his next journey into being a comedian. A joke could be too soon, but it could never be too soon for a funny observation.
Over the past couple of months, Tip Harris has garnered mainstream attention with several surprise stand-up comedy performances. Starting at a comedy club in Atlanta, Georgia, and highlighted by an exceptional guest performance during Crack’em Up Thursdays inside the world-famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, California, Harris quickly becomes one of comedy’s newest superstars.
A multi-platinum selling recording artist with smash hits Swagga Like Us and What You Know, Harris is considered one of the pioneers of trap music. Aside from music, the 41-year-old boasts an acting résumé that includes roles in ATL, American Gangster Ant-Man, and Takers, as well as his VH1 reality series T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle.
Donnell Rawlings is best known as a cast member on the Comedy Central sketch comedy TV series Chappelle’s Show and the HBO drama The Wire.
Rawlings is most notable for frequently appearing in sketches on Chappelle’s Show and hosting the third season along with Charlie Murphy. His catchphrase on the show was “I’m rich, biaaaaatch!” (which is played at the end of every episode as part of Dave Chappelle’s vanity card) as well as frequently adding “Son!” at the end of each sentence.
He demonstrates his knowledge of broken Korean he learned in the Air Force in the sketches “Player Hater’s Ball” and “The Time Haters”, the latter of which was featured in the “Failures” episode. Rawlings reprises his role as the hater “Beautiful”, known for wearing a Jheri curl and a suit similar to ones that Little Richard has worn. In the sketches, he responds to the comments of Korean hater “Mr. Roboto” with insults in Korean. He reprised the role of Beautiful on Chappelle’s episode of Saturday Night Live.
Rawlings appears in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 and in a cameo appearance in the music video for Jim Jones’ “We Fly High” (Ballin’ Remix). He was a regular on The Ricki Lake Show mostly as a judge on various challenge episodes
