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What Is Godfrey's Net Worth?

Godfrey is an American comedian, histrion, writer, and producer who has a net worth of $4 1000000. Godfrey has starred in the stand up-up one-act specials "Godfrey: Blackness by Accident" (2011) and "Godfrey: Regular Black" (2016), and he has written for the HBO Max sketch comedy series "That Damn Michael Che" (2021). Godfrey has more than l acting credits to his name, including the films "Zoolander" (2001), "Johnson Family Holiday" (2004), "Soul Plane" (2004), "The Cookout" (2004), "Phat Girlz" (2006), and "The Binge" (2020) and the television series "Louie" (2010–2011), "Deadbeat" (2014), "Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter" (2017), "Lucha Underground" (2017–2018), and "Due south Side" (2021). He has lent his phonation to animated projects such as "The Mr. Men Testify" (2008–2009), "Black Dynamite" (2014), "Steven Universe" (2014–2016), "Our Drawing President" (2018), and "Human being Resource" (2022), and he produced "Godfrey: Regular Black" as well as the pic "Unemployed" (2008), the special "In Godfrey We Trust: 2020 Twelvemonth in Review" (2021), and his episode of "Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready" (2021). Godfrey hosted the Fob game show "Bullseye" in 2015, and he hosts the podcast "In Godfrey Nosotros Trust," on which he "joins some of his best friends in comedy, Hip-Hop and Hollywood to talk current events, pop culture, race issues, movies, music, Television set and Kung Fu."

1. Early Life
2. Career
3. Awards and Nominations
4. Real Manor

Early Life

Godfrey was born Godfrey C. Danchimah, Jr. on July 21, 1969, in Lincoln, Nebraska. His parents are Nigerian (of the Igbo tribe), and they immigrated to the United States during the Nigerian Civil War, which lasted from mid-1967 to early on 1970. Godfrey'south uncle was Nigerian musician Sonny Okosun, who was the leader of the Ozzidi band and was known for protest songs most freedom and Pan-Africanism. Godfrey grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and he studied at Lane Technical College Preparatory Loftier Schoolhouse. After graduation, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign on an bookish scholarship and majored in psychology. Equally a college pupil, Godfrey was a member of the varsity football team, and he discovered that he had a talent for one-act while performing at a talent show for new members of the football team.

Career

Godfrey spent the early '90s honing his comedy skills at Chicago's All Jokes Bated, and in 1995, he began performing in New York at the Comic Strip Live and Carolines on Broadway. Afterwards signing with the William Morris Talent Agency, Godfrey started working in television, starting with warm-up comedian gigs for the shows "Cosby" and "Soul Homo." He outset appeared on photographic camera on NBC's "Friday Night Videos," and he performed at the Aspen One-act Festival in 2000 and got his own episode of "Comedy Primal Presents" in 2005. Godfrey appeared in the films "Original Gangstas" (1996), "Chain Reaction" (1996), "In the Weeds" (2000), "30 Years to Life" (2001), "Zoolander" (2001), "Johnson Family Holiday" (2004), "Soul Plane" (2004), "The Cookout" (2004), "Virginia" (2005), "Short Fuse" (2005), "Phat Girlz" (2006), "Dead Torso" (2007), "A Dennis the Menace Christmas" (2007), and "Unemployed" (2008), and he is credited as a writer and role player in the 2008 films "Bum Boot Camp" and "The Sweep."

Godfrey guest-starred on "LateLine" (1999), "Third Watch" (2002), and "thirty Rock" (2009), and he hosted "Thunderbox" (2000), "Rock of Ages" (2000), "30 past thirty: Kid Flicks" (2001), "I Bet You Will" (2002), and "The Celebrity Look-Akin Evidence" (2003). He appeared on "The It Factor" (2002), "It's Showtime at the Apollo" (2002), "I Dear the '80s Strikes Back" (2003), "I Love the '90s" (2004), "Black in the 80s" (2005), "I Dear the Holidays" (2005), "Celebrity Paranormal Projection" (2006), "I Love the New Millennium" (2008), "NESN Comedy All-Stars" (2008), "BET News" (2008), and "truTV Presents: World'due south Dumbest…" (2008), and from 2008 to 2009, he voiced  Mr. Stubborn, Mr. Tall, and Mr. Metal on the blithe series "The Mr. Men Show." Godfrey appeared in the films "Similar Lambs" (2016), "The Hudson Tribes" (2016), "Rapid Eye Motion" (2019), "The Rampage" (2020), "The Truth About Santa Claus" (2020), "Americanish" (2021), and "DOMINO: Boxing of the Bones" (2021), and he was featured in the documentaries "I Am Comic" (2010), "Stars & Music" (2011), and "The Science of Doc Who" (2012).

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Godfrey invitee-starred on the FX series "Louie" in 2010 and 2011, then he appeared on "The Center, She Holler" (2011), "Juste cascade rire" (2013), "Insane Clown Posse Theater" (2013), "Deadbeat" (2014), "Law & Society: Special Victims Unit" (2014), "Benders" (2015), "Due south Side" (2021), "Harlem" (2021), and "That Damn Michael Che" (2021–2022). He played Plaid Jeff on Adult Swim's "Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter" (2017) and had a recurring role as FBI Agent Winter on the El Rey Network's "Lucha Hugger-mugger" (2017–2018), and he co-hosted truTV's "Upload with Shaquille O'Neal" in 2013. In 2021, Godfrey joined the cast of the VH1 series "Wild 'n Out," and in 2022, he appeared in West. Kamau Bell'southward Showtime miniseries "We Need To Talk Almost Cosby," the TV series "Then Dumb information technology's Criminal Hosted by Snoop Dogg," and the Vice documentary series "Night Side of Comedy." He also wrote, produced, and starred in the 2021 special "In Godfrey Nosotros Trust: 2020 Year in Review," in which he recapped the year, "tackling race, popular culture, social issues and politics in his trademark comedic ranting style."

Awards and Nominations

In 2021, Godfrey was named Best Supporting Actor in an American Indie for "Americanish." "That Damn Michael Che" has earned him a Black Reel Awards for Television nomination for Outstanding Writing, Comedy Series and a Writers Gild of America Award nomination for Comedy/Variety Sketch Series.

Real Estate

Godfrey owns apartments in New York City and Los Angeles. In 2006 he paid $350,000 for a modest home in the Bronx, New York that was once endemic by jazz singer and actress Maxine Sullivan. Maxine lived in the domicile for more than 4 decades. Later some minor renovations, Godfrey sold the home in 2016 for $390,000.

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