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Rickey Smiley (born in Birmingham,
Alabama) is a standup
comedian, television
host, actor, member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated
and radio
personality best known for his prank phone calls. The calls feature Smiley
using a disguised voice and talking to whoever answers the
phone.
Smiley became the morning show personality for KBFB Radio in Dallas, Texas
in April 2004. The show features the trademark prank calls, as well
as news, information and the latest hip hop music.
Smiley is also known as the host of the 2000 season of BET's "ComicView"
program. He has also appeared on "Showtime at the Apollo", HBO's "Def Comedy Jam", HBO's "Snaps",
"The Nashville Network", "Uptown Comedy Club", and "Comic Escape."
He is known as one of the few "clean" African American comics,
preferring to use humor rather than vulgarity to get laughs. His
original comedy routines often feature the role-play of fictional
characters such as "Bernice Jenkins" (AKA Granny Swims, Ms. Johnson
or Mrs. Francis), "Lil' Daryl," "Rusty Dale" and "Beauford."
Bernice Jenkins has a Grandson named Rufus, who's a stereotype of the modern
day "Gangsta". He is
referenced in "Two Of My Toes Fell Off" and another prank phone
call where Smiley calls a pharmacy.
He also has released several humorous songs based on his bits,
such as "Roll Tide" featuring his redneck
character Buford, and "We Miss Robert" based on a routine of his in
which a friend of a deceased drug dealer performs a rap song called
"We Miss Robert" at the funeral, which is actually a song about a
woman, performed in hopes of landing a record deal. He currently
has a morning show on a Baltimore, Maryland radio station.
Smiley had a starring role in Ice Cube's Friday After Next.
Filmography
Discography
To date, Smiley has released five albums of his renowned prank
calls:
- The Best of Comedian Rickey Smiley Vol. I
- Rickey Smiley: Prank Calls Vol. II
- Rickey Smiley: Vol. III
- Rickey Smiley "Off The Hook Volume 4"
- Rickey Smiley: Vol. V (spring 2006).
Trivia
- Smiley is a graduate of Alabama State University. He
is a member of Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and is known for informing audiences
of his membership in his acts.
- Smiley is also a pianist
and often plays the piano in his shows.
- Smiley also plays the organ and sometimes refers to himself
playing it at his home church
Prank
calls
Some of Smiley's most notable calls include:
- "Buried Alive" - Smiley plays a narcoleptic who works
at a funeral home and "fell asleep in one of these caskets" who
calls a cemetery claiming that "they done buried me alive" and
insists he is calling from inside a casket on his cell phone. He
then requests that someone come and "dig all these graves
open".
- "Come Over" - in a bit of a reverse prank (similar to the ones
the Jerky Boys innovated), a hapless caller
known as "K.D." calls a Smiley character named "Gina", a woman who
initially entices him with statements like "I'm just 'bout to go
crazy over here" and "I want you to come over and hurt me" before
revealing she is a hermaphrodite ("that means I got both
genitals"). K.D. assures Gina he is "still comin'", which prompts
her to up the stakes by announcing that "my grandmama over here
too...she a real freak." K.D. then speaks to the
grandmother who demands "I want you to scrub my head to the white
meat" and wants to know "what kind of draws you got on."
- "Uncle Melvin" - Smiley prank calls his uncle, as a man who
believes his girlfriend has left him, and who punctuates every
remark with the word "dawg" ("Is my girl over there dawg...tell her
I love her, dawg").
- "Churches" - Smiley plays two characters in this call, both of
whom call Church's Chicken. One is an elderly
lady who wants to know "what time do y'all start service" and asks
"who is y'all pastor"; when informed that she has called a
restaurant, asks "Don't the chicken belong to the church?" The
other caller is "Willie", who claims to be a heavyset man with a thyroid problem ("I can't get
out the house no more"), and who asks for a rundown of the menu
("Is y'all okra fried, or is it
all slimy in the pot, like grandmama used to") and who constantly
requests delivery of food to his house.
- "Pray For Me" - Using his "Granny" voice again, Smiley calls
"Miss Ola Mae Benton Carter Jackson Glenn", and asks her to pray
for a member of her church, who had been:
-stabbed
-involved in an ambulance crash
-hit by a train
-had a leg cut off by the Jaws of Life
-shot "in the right eye"
Smiley then gets the woman to lead her in several verses of "Walk
With Me, Lord", each verse increasing in silliness.
- "She P-E-E-D" - Smiley prank calls an elderly woman using his
"Granny" voice; the aftermath of the call causes the woman to laugh
so hard that she ends up urinating on herself.
- "Is My Daddy Over There" - Smiley plays Lil' Daryl and his
brother Brandon as they call a lady claiming their father was
supposed to return home with milk for their cereal.
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