This Day in Black History: Arsenio Hall

Arsenio asks NBC Nightly Brian Williams for apology of not including 
him in his Brady Bunch Late Night Segment, Feb. 18th, 2014 

Arsenio Hall is well known as a pioneer talk show host, comedian an actor. He was born February 12th, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, son of Fred and Anne Hall.  After a 20 year break he decided to rebirth the show to Warner Brothers network debut of "The Arsenio Hall" talk show that previously ran between 1989 to 1994.  He attended Warrensville Heights High School in 1973 and later attended Ohio University.  Arsenio has one son that was born in 1999.  He had A-list stars on his show from Michael Jackson dancing the moonwalk to the former President Bill Clinton playing the saxophone.  He was well known for the famous "Roo, Roo, Roo" chant with the fist pumps along with Arsenio wiggle dance.  Arsenio is also known to do voiceovers, one for the hit 

movie "The Real Ghostbusters" ('86-'87). 

He played well and won on the billionaire real estate investor Donald Trump's reality show "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2012 on NBC network. He acted along side with Eddie Murphy in the hit 80's movie "Coming to America" ('88) featuring supporting actors James Earl Jones. Films including Martial Law (He also was a co-host for Alain Thicke's, Thicke of the Night MTV Video Music Awards ('88-'91) and the hit talent show Star Search ('88). A George Lopez, a sold-out Mexican comedian and actor, also credits Arsenio for breaking barriers that allowed him to have a late night show.  mongst many films and television shows, he was also featured on recently blasted NBC Nightly news correspondent Brian Williams for not including him in his Brady Bunch segment that included all late night hosts including Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kemmel, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and more. He stated that "If you’re doing a story about late night, all I ask is that you mention me." He asked his viewers to petition Brian to make the changes by publishing his number.  He recently responded in an apology to Arsenio that it will never happen again. Arsenio has since announced that he as forgiven him. We hope to see many more years of the hilarious comedian!







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Arsenio Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Retrieved February 27, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenio_Hall