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Aries Spears

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Aries Spears is a stand-up comedian, impressionist and actor from New Jersey. [en.wikipedia.org] He was born in Chicago, moved to New York at two and to New Jersey at eleven, and his mother is the jazz singer Doris Spears. [en.wikipedia.org] He first performed stand-up at about fourteen, doing impressions at a Harlem club. [en.wikipedia.org] He appeared on Def Comedy Jam at sixteen, and treats it as the break. [en.wikipedia.org] He was a MADtv cast member for eight seasons and 198 episodes, second only to Michael McDonald in tenure. [en.wikipedia.org]

“Nairobi Aries Spears (born April 3, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, impressionist, and actor from New Jersey.” [en.wikipedia.org]
“Spears was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York when he was two years old. His mother, Doris Spears, is a jazz singer. Spears moved to New Jersey at age eleven and attended Arthur M. Judd Elementary School.” [en.wikipedia.org]
“Spears said in a 2016 interview that his first experience performing stand-up comedy was doing impressions of James Brown and Jack Nicholson at the "Uptown Comedy Cafe" in Harlem at about fourteen years old.” [en.wikipedia.org]
“Spears cites the Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam as his first big break in comedy. He featured in episode nine of the second season of the program in 1992, when he was sixteen years old, and returned in 1997 for episode twelve of the seventh season.” [en.wikipedia.org]
“Spears was a regular on Fox's sketch comedy series Mad TV (1997–2005), appearing in 198 episodes, making him the second longest-serving cast member on the show behind Michael McDonald.” [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Sourcegoodnightscomedy.com, this act says so: "continually touring the country with his stand-up" (http://www.goodnightscomedy.com:80/calendar/detai· captured · per ADC-VS-1

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American Design Collective. “Aries Spears.” ADC-P-006795, v4. Accessed 2026-08-12. americandesigncollective.com/p/006795-aries-spears
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