Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / NetflixBefore Donnell Rawlings was a professional comedian, he was an amateur heckler. He would go to comedy clubs and yell back at the stage, sometimes getting even bigger laughs than the guy with the mic. So even with his Dave Chappelle-produced stand-up special A New Day dropping on Netflix this week, it’s perhaps no surprise that he recently came full circle, getting caught on camera heckling a fellow comic for going after both him and his famous frien
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Isiah Whitlock Jr. is ready to give back. Last week, via Twitter, he announced his plans to auction off a tweet that features his character Clay Davis’ trademark “Sheeeeeeeeeit” catchphrase from
The Wire. And though he isn’t the first actor or public figure to jump into the NFT game, Whitlock Jr.’s decision to hold the auction came from a desire to give back to his community.
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A survey conducted by the Associated Press earlier this month revealed that, over the course of the pandemic, 76% of actors reported a loss of income and 79% reported that their mental health deteriorated and they experienced an increase in anxiety or depression. Whitlock Jr. was all too familiar with these stats and he wanted a more tangible way to provide support. “We had started an NFT and then I was looking at the tweet that Jack Dorsey had auctioned off and I thought it would be a good idea to auction off a tweet and raise money for the Ac
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actors can say they have a catchphrase all their own? For Isiah Whitlock Jr., his one of a kind, distinctive, drawn-out reading of the word, “sheeeeeeeeeit” (that’s nine “e’s,” for those counting) has followed him from multiple film roles to an all-time-great television series, all the way to the canals of Venice, Italy. He’s even made it into a lucrative side business, selling talking bobbleheads with his likeness. The actor has no problem being branded as “the ‘sheeeeeeeeeit’ guy” “it makes people happy!,” Whitlock says so he’s learned to live with it, even if it may have cursed one of his relationships.