Send For The Sandman! 9 Celebs Who Got Rejected Or Booed Off The Apollo Stage Before Making It Big

Jamie Foxx

Before he was winning Academy Awards and starring in his own television shows, Jamie Foxx was just another young comedian trying to get some love (and money). In the same vein as Lyfe Jennings, Foxx got treated with a nice East Coast boo before he even got to pull out one joke. According to Eurweb, this is what Foxx had to say:

I’ve been booed at the Apollo,” says Jamie Foxx, the executive producer of “Apollo Live” along with Marcus King and Don Weiner.  “When I first went to New York as a young comedian and Sinbad brought me out, I think he kind of set me up, too, because he said, ‘We’ve got a West Coast comedian.’ Immediately they started booing before I even got on the stage.

But Foxx definitely gets the last laugh because he will be the executive producer behind “Apollo Live,” a revival of the show, which will hopefully air on the BET network. The program will be following in the exact footsteps of its original show, but with Tony Rock as host.