Steve Harvey’s Ups and Downs Over the Years

Steve Harvey is among the most profitable hosts in current TV historical past, however he’s handled loads of ups and downs over time.

The West Virginia native started his comedy profession within the early Nineteen Nineties, working as a stand-up and internet hosting Showtime on the Apollo from 1993 till 2000. In 1997, he hit the highway with fellow comedians Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac for the mega-successful Kings of Comedy tour, which turned a film in 2000.

The Daytime Emmy winner stored increasing his profession into movie, TV and radio all through the early aughts, beginning his syndicated radio program The Steve Harvey Morning Present in 2000 and making his narrative movie debut in 2003’s The Preventing Temptations.

Ultimately, the comic had to surrender his stand-up profession as a result of he was so busy juggling his radio present, his sitcom and extra. In 2022, nevertheless, he claimed that he stopped performing stand-up due to he nervous about “cancel tradition” affecting his different work.

“The one approach I can do another particular is that it must be on the finish of my tv profession, as a result of it’s going to finish my tv profession,” he stated through the Tv Critics Affiliation press tour in January 2022. “We’re within the cancel tradition, and no one — no stand-up alive that’s sponsor-driven — can say something he needs to.”

Regardless of placing his stand-up profession on maintain, Harvey has stored his plate full because the starting of the twenty first century. In 2010, he turned the brand new host of the long-running recreation present Household Feud, and 5 years later, he signed on to helm a reboot of the spinoff Superstar Household Feud.

The Johnson Household Trip star has additionally authored 4 books, together with 2009’s Act Like a Girl, Suppose Like a Man. Three years later, the e book impressed the hit rom-com Suppose Like a Man, starring Regina Corridor, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy and Taraji P. Henson. (Harvey had a cameo position as himself.)

Although the BET Award winner already had a profitable profession by the point the film debuted, he was nonetheless stunned that the self-help e book turned a movie.

“The potential of it turning into a film by no means even entered my thoughts. Not for a millisecond,” he advised in April 2012. “After I wrote the e book, my aim was to make the New York Instances bestseller checklist. That was it. I had no concept the e book could be as profitable because it was.”

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