McFadden once joked on an episode of Def Comedy Jam: \u201cI just came from my cousin\u2019s house, man, he lives in the projects, man.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all got cousins who live in the projects, man. We hate going there, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n
\u201cBrother lives on the 20th floor. And why is it, when you go to the projects, the intercom never works? It\u2019s always broken!\u201d<\/p>\n
McFadden made a number of appearances on Def Comedy Jam, which highlighted a range of rising comics, and served as a writer and comedian between 1991 and 1995.<\/p>\n
He later made ratings history with his own Comedy Central special in 1998, and went on to appear on the likes of Late Night, the Late Show and more.<\/p>\n
For the latter, which was hosted by David Letterman at the time, he auditioned 12 times before he landed a coveted spot.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the LA Times in 1996, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting a long time to get on his show. So when I went out I said, \u2018There\u2019s not going to be any mistakes\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
When McFadden appeared on the show, he made producers nervous with a joke about crack cocaine, which he insisted was \u201cmore of a physical joke\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI just talk about how [crack] is spreading around so much, and I can\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell them how my neighbour smokes it right on the porch like [he\u2019s drinking] lemonade. He\u2019ll talk to me while I\u2019m walking down the block.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll say, \u2018Hey, how was work? Are they keeping you busy?\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t know what to say, \u2018How\u2019s the crack going? The pipe staying hot?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Late Show producers eventually decided to air the joke.<\/p>\n
As well as his stand-up career and starring in season five of live sketch show In Living Colour, McFadden flourished as an actor on the small screen after relocating to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
He scored parts in shows such as Coach, Martin, Hangin\u2019 With Mr Cooper, Getting Personal, and an appearance as Larry David\u2019s neighbour Officer Burt in a 2001 episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.<\/p>\n
He also had a number of minor film roles in the likes of Jacob\u2019s Ladder and Little Nicky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McFadden once joked on an episode of Def Comedy Jam: \u201cI just came from my cousin\u2019s house, man,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[57908,3376,18919,95,26561,40367,6179,7126,156,78,4188,14721,111,139,69,306151,437],"class_list":["post-622062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-57908","tag-actor","tag-aged","tag-and","tag-colour","tag-comedian","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-in","tag-living","tag-mcfadden","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reggie","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}