D.L. Hughley

D.L. Hughley was born on Mar 06, 1963 in USA. D.L. Hughley's big-screen debut came with Def Comedy Jam - Season 2 directed by Stan Lathan in 1992, strarring Self - Host. D.L. Hughley is known for Glory Daze directed by Gil Junger, Kelly Blatz stars as Joel Harrington and Matt Bush as Eli Schwartz. The upcoming new movie D.L. Hughley plays is D.L. Hughley: Contrarian which will be released on Sep 18, 2018.

Hughley is the second of four children. His father was an airline maintenance worker and his mother was a homemaker.He grew up in L.A.'s South Central where he was a member of the Bloods gang after getting kicked out of high school. However, he turned his life around after a cousin was shot. He quit the gang and got a job as a telemarketer for the Los Angeles Times, where he moved into management and met his wife-to-be. She was the one who convinced him to try his humor onstage. After years of club dates, he was selected by BET as the first host of "Comic View" and subsequently got additional recognition with two very adult-oriented HBO specials.