Urban Culture Magazine SEPT/OCT 2017 | Page 9

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WHO IS DEE BROOKS? HE WAS BORN IN THE 70S HIS FATHER WELL RESPECTED IN THE PRINCE HALL MASONS HIS MOTHER AS WELL IN THE EASTERN STARS .RAISED IN THE 80S DEE AN HIS SISTER WERE THE ONLY BLACKS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN A SMALL TOWN IN CALIFORNIA. SINCE A CHILD DEE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE A COMEDIAN WATCHING COMEDY FROM AN EARLY AGE HIS FAVORITES ARE THREE STOOGES, MOMS MABLEY, JOHN RITTER, FLIP WILSON AN MANY MORE. DEE PERFORMED AT PEP RALLIES IN HIGH SCHOOL AN AT SOME OF HIS FATHERS EVENTS. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, DEE JOINED THE U.S . NAVY WHERE HE TRAVELED THE WORLD AN MET A VERITY OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES.

DEE STARTED GETTING SERIOUS WITH HIS COMEDY CAREER IN 2008, WHICH HE WROTE FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE GETTING THE NERVES TO PERFORM IN FRONT OF A CROWD. DEE HAS WORKED HARD AN IT HAS PAID OFF COMING OFF A 23 CITY TOUR WITH MEMBERS OF WU-TANG CLAN AND RUFF RYDERZ, HE HAS PERFORMED ON THE WORLD FAMOUS LAS VEGAS STRIP INSIDE BALLY,S, THE VENETIAN, MANADALAY BAY, HOUSE OF BLUES JUST TO NAME A FEW. NOWADAYS YOU CAN CATCH DEE FEATURING INSIDE THE D CASINO ON THE FREMONT EXPERIENCE, DD BLUE FIRE, AN A CITY NEAR YOU, BECAUSE HE IS LIKE OXYGEN, HE IS EVERYWHERE.

WHEN DEE BROOKS IS NOT RIPPING UP STAGES WITH HIS UNPREDICTABLE STYLE OF COMEDY, WHICH PRODUCES LAUGHS FROM KIDS TO SENIORS. YOU CAN FIND HIM SPENDING TIME WITH HIS 12 KIDS AN 10 GRAND KIDS.

WHO IS DEE BROOKS?

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