Wyatt Cenac was a correspondent and writer for The Daily Show from 2008 to 2012.
14 Facts About Wyatt Cenac
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Wyatt Cenac starred in the TBS series People of Earth and in Barry Jenkins's first feature Medicine for Melancholy.
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Wyatt Cenac hosted and produced the HBO series Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas.
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When Wyatt Cenac was five, his father was shot and killed in his cab by a teenage passenger in Harlem.
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Wyatt Cenac moved with his mother, a New York native, and Trinidadian stepfather to Dallas, Texas, in 1981.
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Wyatt Cenac spent his summers with his maternal grandmother in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in an apartment on President Street.
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Wyatt Cenac graduated from the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to Los Angeles.
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Wyatt Cenac's father was the cousin of former deputy prime minister of Grenada Bernard Coard, who was imprisoned for 25 years following the American invasion of Grenada in October 1983.
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Wyatt Cenac's paternal thrice-great-grandfather Cherebin Wyatt Cenac was an officer from Agen, France, on a French battleship during the Napoleonic Wars who settled in Soufriere, Saint Lucia.
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In June 2008, Wyatt Cenac was hired as a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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Wyatt Cenac continued to integrate satirical Black-oriented material in his Daily Show segments, including "Rapper or Republican" until his final Daily Show appearance on December 13,2012.
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Wyatt Cenac costarred in Medicine for Melancholy, an independent drama by Barry Jenkins released in 2008 that includes issues of African American identity and gentrification in San Francisco.
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Wyatt Cenac has co-hosted four episodes of The Bugle podcast with Andy Zaltzman since 2016.
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Wyatt Cenac released his third stand up album "Furry Dumb Fighter" in 2016 both digitally and on vinyl.