Broderick Stephen Harvey, Sr.[2][3] (born January 17, 1957) is an American television and radio presenter, actor, author, businessman, and former stand-up comedian. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition, Family Feud Africa, and arbitration-based court comedy, Judge Steve Harvey.
Harvey began his career as a comedian. He did stand-up comedy in the early 1980s and hosted Showtime at the Apollo and The Steve Harvey Show on The WB. He was later featured in The Original Kings of Comedy after starring in the Kings of Comedy Tour. He performed his last standup show in 2012.
Harvey is the host of both Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud, which he has done since 2010. He has also hosted Little Big Shots, Little Big Shots Forever Young, and Steve Harvey’s Funderdome. As an author, he has written four books, including his bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009.
In 2017, Harvey founded Steve Harvey Global, an entertainment company that houses his production company East 112 and various other ventures. He launched an African version of Family Feud and also invested in the HDNet takeover along with Anthem Sports and Entertainment. He and his wife Marjorie are the founders of The Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on youth education.
He is a six-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, two-time Marconi Award winner, and a 14-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Early career and comedy
2.2 1990–2009; Move to television and film
2.3 2010–2016; Family Feud and other ventures
2.4 2017–present; Steve Harvey Global
3 Controversies
3.1 Politics
3.2 Racial comments about Asian men
3.3 Comments about Flint water crisis
4 Philanthropy
5 Personal life
6 Bibliography
7 Filmography
7.1 Television
7.2 Film
7.3 Internet / Web media streaming
8 Awards and honors
9 References
10 External links
Early career and comedy
Harvey has been a boxer, an autoworker, an insurance salesman, a carpet cleaner, and a mail carrier.[6][9][10] He first performed stand-up comedy on October 8, 1985, at the Hilarities Comedy Club in Cleveland, Ohio. In the late 1980s, Harvey was homeless for three years.[11] He slept in his 1976 Ford when not performing gigs that provided a hotel, and he showered at gas stations or swimming pool showers.[12] Rich and Becky Liss helped Harvey during this time with a contract for carpet cleaning and credit at a travel agency.
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