- Born
- Birth nameByron Allen Folks
- Byron Allen was born in 1961 in Detroit. Not long afterward, he moved to LA. When he was just a teenager, he started doing stand-up clubs in Los Angeles. That was where comedian Jimmie 'JJ' Walker discovered him, and offered him a job as a writer. Allen worked alongside David Letterman and Jay Leno. He has been hosting Entertainers with Byron Allen (2000) since 1993.
- IMDb mini biography by: Len Hroskj
- SpouseJennifer Lucas(September 1, 2007 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenChildChild
- ParentsCarolyn Folks
- His company, Entertainment Studios--later Allen Media Group--bought The Weather Channel on May 22,2018 for $300 million.
- At age 18, he was the youngest comedian ever to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962).
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 1739 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on October 20, 2021. His Walk of Fame star is located at the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine.
- On 6/13/20, he paid for a huge two-page advertisement in the "New York Times' Sunday edition entitled "Black America Speaks. America Should Listen. What We Need to do to Never Come Back Here Again". The ad had previously appeared as an online guest column Allen had written for Deadline.com that appeared June 8.
- Became a father exactly four months after his 47th birthday.
- Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best. It's a big gamble. But I believe it's real simple. Number one, you need a good movie. Number two, you need a good release date. And then number three, you need to spend enough money to tell everybody you have a good movie. [Dec.2017]
- I bought 47 Meters Down (2017) off of Bob Weinstein. I never dealt with Harvey Weinstein on that at all, because Harvey wasn't on that side of the house. This movie was on a truck and headed to the DVD store. We were able to stop the trucks from delivering it to the DVD stores, and it ended up being the biggest indie release of the year. [Dec.2017]
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