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HOWERY
Milton
(Lil
Rel
Howery)
American stand-up comedian and actor
Date of Birth: 17 December 1979
Age: 44 years old
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Profession: Comedian
Biography
Milton Howery Jr., better known as Lil Rel Howery, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Howery is known for playing Robert Carmichael in NBC's television comedy series The Carmichael Show (2015–2017) and Rod Williams in the horror film Get Out (2017). He starred in the short-lived TV series Rel (2018–2019), which he created and co-produced.
Career
Howery began performing comedy in Chicago. He made his television debut in January 2007 on the reality television competition Last Comic Standing. The same year, he was on P. Diddy Presents: The Bad Boys of Comedy on HBO. In 2009, he was part of America's National Night Out Against Crime in Chicago.
In 2012, Howery and five other comedians starred in Fox's revival of the 1990s sketch program In Living Color. The show was canceled in 2013. Howery went on to work as a writer, producer, and one of the regular cast members of the truTV sketch comedy series Friends of the People. In 2015, he began co-starring as Bobby Carmichael on the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show alongside the show's creator, Jerrod Carmichael.
In early 2016, Netflix added Howery's first exclusive solo stand-up special, Kevin Hart Presents: Lil Rel: RELevent, for streaming in the United States.
Howery won the 2017 "Best Comedic Performance" MTV Movie & TV Award for his performance in Jordan Peele's satirical horror film Get Out.
On May 10, 2018, Fox picked up Rel, a sitcom starring Howery in the lead role and Jerrod Carmichael and Mike Scully serving as executive producers. Howery said the show is loosely based on his own life, including being a divorced father. The series premiered September 9, 2018.
Howery starred alongside Ryan Reynolds in the comedy film Free Guy. He played Buddy, a security guard.
From 2019 to 2022, Howery had played the character Bishop on the HBO Max sitcom South Side.
In 2019, HBO released Howery's second stand-up special, Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw. His third special, I said it. Y'all thinking it. was filmed in his hometown of Chicago and released in 2022. He starred in many movies from 2022 to 2023 such as I Love My Dad, Deep Water, and Vacation Friends 2.
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