Jordan Black (actor)

Jordan Black (born Gary Andre McCrory; November 9, 1970) is an American comedy writer and actor.

Jordan Black
Born
Gary Andre McCrory

(1970-11-09) November 9, 1970
Kankakee, Illinois
Occupation(s)Writer, actor
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Life and career

Black was born in Kankakee, Illinois. He has written for Saturday Night Live and starred in the Comedy Central show Halfway Home as Sebastian "C-Bass" Yates, an ex-convict for internet fraud. He voiced Sullivan Carrew in the 2004 mockumentary The Old Negro Space Program. He also appeared as himself in a 2003 episode of MADtv.

Black is also an alumnus of The Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe and theatre. Although he retired from the theatre's Main Stage Company in the mid-2000s, Black still comes back regularly to perform in The Groundlings’ all-improv shows The Crazy Uncle Joe Show and Cookin' with Gas, and is also a teacher at the groundlings. He has made cameos on the NBC television show Community as the dean of City Community College, Steven Spreck, and on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.[1] He appeared in Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine in 2020.[2]

References
  1. "IMDb: How I Met Your Mother: The Chain of Screaming". IMDb.
  2. "Sarah Cooper's 'Everything's Fine' is a 2020 Time Capsule, but not Much More: TV Review". 27 October 2020.


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