Always one of the hardest working jokester and producer in Hollywood, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris stops by Power 105’s The Breakfast Club to discuss Entergalactic with Kid Cudi, The Wizard Of Oz Remake, Black-ish, and much more.
Upon returning home to Los Angeles after graduation, Barris took a position as a writer’s assistant on the WB sitcom, “Sister/Sister”. It was there that Steve Stark took note of him and assisted him in entering the Paramount Comedy Writer’s Workshop. After leaving the program and receiving an episode on Sister/Sister, Barris was placed in the WGA Writer’s Trainee program on Fox’s, “The Keenan Ivory Wayan’s Show,” a late-night talk/sketch show. From there, Barris went on to work on several other short-run sketch shows and eventually, thanks to a feature script that was sold to Artists Production Group, he was placed with his life-long mentor, Felicia D. Henderson, on the Showtime drama series “Soul Food,” where he stayed four seasons. While on “Soul Food,” he co-created UPN’s breakout reality hit “America’s Next Top Model” with Tyra Banks. After leaving “Soul Food” he returned to his comedy roots on shows like “Listen Up,” “Like Family,” and “The Game.” He also worked as a writer on CBS’s “Listen Up,” UPN/The CW’s “Girlfriends,” and Fox’s “I Hate My Teenage Daughter,” and directed and executive produced a ten-part mini-documentary music series entitled “Music Love” for Warner Brothers. Additionally, he wrote and created BET’s “The Start Up” and Hulu’s first half-hour comedy series “We Got Next.”
Kenya Barris is under an overall deal at ABC Studios where he is currently the executive producer and co-showrunner on “Black-ish” for ABC. Most recently, he penned “Barbershop: The Next Cut” and is currently writing multiple features for Universal, New Line, and MGM.
The Breakfast Club is an American syndicated radio show based in New York City hosted by DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne tha God that currently airs in over 90 radio markets around the United States. Common topics of discussion on the show are celebrity gossip (especially in the hip hop industry), progressive politics, and sexual and dating issues. In January 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special). In July 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Talk radio industry magazine Talkers included it in its 2020 “Heavy Hundred” list of top 100 influential talk radio shows, calling the show “appointment listening every day for people of color.” During the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Los Angeles Times called it “a radio forum for the nation’s racial reckoning.” As of July 2020 the show reach 8 million listeners a month according to Nielsen.
In November 2021 the show stopped its simulcast on Revolt.
