\n\tReggie McFadden, the actor and stand-up comic who got his big break on Def Comedy Jam and worked for a season on the 1990s Fox sketch series In Living Color, has died. He was 57.<\/p>\n
\n\tHis sister, best-selling author Bernice McFadden, told The Hollywood Reporter that the U.S. State Department notified the family that he died in Tanzania, where he had been living for the past 18 years or so. The family does not yet know when he died or what was the cause of death, she added.<\/p>\n
\n\tBorn on Nov. 30, 1968, McFadden grew up in Brooklyn and decided to pursue comedy as a way to escape living in the projects, according to a bio<\/a> posted online.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 1991, he made it on HBO\u2019s Def Comedy Jam, and after moving to Los Angeles, he landed small roles on Martin, Hangin\u2019 With Mr. Cooper, Moesha and Coach, among other TV shows.<\/p>\n \n\tHowever, McFadden is perhaps best remembered for In Living Color. He was on the late-night show in 1993-94, appearing on 23 episodes of the fifth and final season in such sketches as \u201cWheel of Dozens,\u201d \u201cAll Up in the Family\u201d and the \u201cDirty Dozens Tournament of Champions.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe went on to star on Fox\u2019s short-lived 1998 comedy Getting Personal and appear in films including Jacob\u2019s Ladder (1990), Minor Adjustments (1995) and Little Nicky (2000).<\/p>\n \n\tHe\u2019s also remembered for his role as Officer Burt, Larry David\u2019s neighbor, on a 2001 episode of HBO\u2019s Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tMcFadden had his own comedy special on Comedy Central and performed regularly at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to his Facebook page<\/a>, he was the owner of Olduvai Records, a gold-mining and entertainment production company in Tanzania. Its website<\/a> states that Olduvai is signed with Sony Music\u2019s The Orchard in New York for the global distribution of its music and audio visual productions. McFadden released an album, ENJOY, Vol. 1, on the label in May 2025.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cReggie McFadden was a very talented, veteran comedian and actor whose diverse choices and dedication to his profession were highly evident,\u201d Prof. Rel Dowdell, director of film studies at Hampton University, said in a statement.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to Bernice, survivors include another sister, Misty; his sons, Jaron and Myles; his mother, Vivian; and his brother, Kris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reggie McFadden, the actor and stand-up comic who got his big break on Def Comedy Jam and worked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15822,88,10756],"class_list":["post-871287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-curb-your-enthusiasm","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}