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15 Facts About Alonzo Bodden

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Alonzo Bodden is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and former political commentator.

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Alonzo Bodden has been a recurring panelist on NPR's quiz radio show Wait Wait.

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Alonzo Bodden was born and raised in the St Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, to an African American mother and an Afro-Honduran father.

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Alonzo Bodden went to Aviation High School in Long Island City, Queens.

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Alonzo Bodden went on to work for Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach in the training department in the early 1990s.

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Alonzo Bodden has been the host of the annual Just for Laughs festival in Bermuda over a dozen times.

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Alonzo Bodden hosted the Speed TV program 101 Cars You Must Drive.

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Alonzo Bodden has performed on numerous television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Make Me Laugh, Late Friday, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central Presents, and It's Showtime at the Apollo.

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Alonzo Bodden is a voice actor who has worked on Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Masked Rider, and O'Grady.

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Alonzo Bodden appears as a panelist on NPR's news quiz show Wait Wait.

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Alonzo Bodden has been a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and on The Adam Carolla Show.

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Alonzo Bodden is a co-host of Inside the Vault on WGN America.

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Alonzo Bodden has regularly appeared as a commentator for The Young Turks network.

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In 2019, Alonzo Bodden was tapped to host Family Feud Live, a live traveling version of the game show Family Feud, which featured celebrity "team captains" Brian Baumgartner, Cathy Rigby and "Grocery Store Joe" Amabile.

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On March 26,2013, Alonzo Bodden donated a kidney to his brother, who is three years older.