Deon Cole talks ‘The Color Purple’ with Jalen Rose
nypost.comin shows such as “Black-ish,” films such as “Barbershop,” and is soon to steal the show in a breakthrough dramatic role in “The Color Purple.” But, the Chicago native’s career of making laughs — one that dates to the 1990s — almost never happened.
Deon was a late bloomer, to say the least.“I was like, way out of college and high school. I’d never been a real funny dude.
That’s why comedy was never on my radar,” he told me on “Renaissance Man.” “I used to think comedians were just pie in the face, just always on.
Then, I started noticing other comics who were ‘in the pocket’…like George Carlin and Ellen DeGeneres.”Still, it took something extra to finally break Deon out of his comedic shell — a $50 bet from a friend to get him onstage. “It took me a while to see what my friend was talking about.
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