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Phyllis Yvonne Stickney is the second child born to Felix and Belle. Phyllis Yvonne Stickney was one of the first comedians of color to perform at the Juste Pour Rire Comedy Festival in Montreal. Canada. She performed with the late John Candy as well as being introduced at the festival by Ed Begley Jr. to perform her stand up comedy. Her stand-up performance at the world famous Apollo Theater was one of the selling points to sell the now popular Showtime at the Apollo to the network. Ms. Stickney is also a motivational speaker and published author and poet. She was the first female to ever perform with The Last Poets on the soundtrack of Panther (1995). Essence Magazine's 25th Anniversary Issue named her as one of the 200 African American women who has changed the world. Ms. Stickney has created and designed a line of clothing for every woman called Butterbaby scheduled be launched in Spring/Summer of 2004. Ms Stickney is the Founder/Executive Director for a non-profit community based organization called Alternative Careers in the Arts. She is also an accomplished stage performer and has received two AUDELCO Awards for Excellence in Black Theater. She was also the writer/Creative Consultant on the ABC short lived series New Attitude a Castle Rock production.

She performed stand-up comedy before the cameras appeared and was actually slated to be the first Host of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0240272/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Showtime at the Apollo (1987)</a> before <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0005435/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Sinbad</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0171319/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Kim Coles</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0367724/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Steve Harvey</a>
at the same time she was cast in the original line-up of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0092339/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">A Different World (1987)</a>. The was the first Afri-centric character on national TV since <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001807/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Cicely Tyson</a> wore a short afro.

Sister of actor <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0830023/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Timothy D. Stickney</a>

Kick off for The Alternative Careers in the Arts program
in Los Angeles, California. (January 2004)

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