American Carlos Biography

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ordan Carlos is an American stand-up humorist who played a repeating character on The Colbert Report and is a co-host in the Nickelodeon children's show Me-TV. Andre Braugher, Toni Morrison, and Avery Brooks are all related to Carlos. He was an alumni of Brown University's "Improvidence" improv comedy troupe and was an Eagle scout in the boy scouts, which was the highest rank.

In the wake of moving on from Brown University in 2001, Carlos went to fill in as a marketing specialist in a New York promotion firm. Carlos did this amid the day and utilized the significant paycheck to finance a vocation class in hold up. In the long run, Carlos surrendered publicizing through and through, in spite of the fact that he feels he experienced difficulty finding the right audience since he "wasn't a cliché black man". He later figured out how to utilize that trademark as the premise for large portions of his jokes. On The
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Carlos has showed up his acting skills as an actor for one of his guest appearances on the Keith and the Girl podcast "Episode253: Chuuch". He additionally showed up in Nickelback's "Rockstar" music video and has shown his commentator skills on the E! System's Worst Dating Show Moments. He showed up in the mate cop film Cop Out. Likewise, he played the Math educator in the short film The Old Man and the Seymour and he was thrown in a fundamental part, on the MTV arrangement, I Just Want My Pants Back. Carlos has likewise shown up in CollegeHumor.com's unique recordings. As of late, he depicted President Barack Obama in the video entitled, "BarackObama'sBBQ". Jordan was a thrown part on Guy Code, Guy Court and Girl Code. Jordan likewise came in two scenes of season 1 of MTV's "JokingOff". He also voiced Gene on the vivified arrangement Super 4. He currently shows up as a specialist and correspondent on The Nightly Show with Larry

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