It Ain’t Just Ice Cube And Dr. Dre: Did You Know They Were From Compton?
Anthony Anderson
The now slimmed down funny man (and another Leo on the list–so is Yo Yo) was born and raised in Compton. While trying to get his start on the comedy circuit in Compton, he met with pretty tough crowds. As the story goes, he tried to go with the stage name “Tasty Tony, the One and Only, and if there’s another, he’s a phony.” In his first big show at The Comedy Theater in Compton, when that name was announced, he was booed off the stage before he could even really tell some jokes…