Profile
Sinbad
Actor + Comedian
Male
Born
Nov 18, 1956
Age
56
Hometown
Benton Harbor, Mi...
Genres
Satire + Black co...
Nationality
American
Other Names
Adkins, David
David Adkins better known by his stage name of Sinbad, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became well known in the 1990s from being featured on his own HBO specials, appearing on several television series, and starring in the films Necessary… Read More
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Sinbad.
CHILDHOOD
1956
Birth
Sinbad was born David Adkins in Benton Harbor, Michigan on November 19, 1956, the son of Martha and the Baptist Rev. Dr. Donald Adkins.
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TEENAGE
1974
17 Years Old
He attended college from 1974 to 1978 at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, where he lettered two seasons for the basketball team.
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TWENTIES
1981
24 Years Old
While assigned to the 384th Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas, he would often go downtown to do stand-up comedy and competed as a comedian/MC in the U.S. Air Force's Talent Contest in 1981.
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1985
28 Years Old
Sinbad married Meredith Fuller in 1985. They have two children together. The couple divorced in 1992, then remarried in 2002.
THIRTIES
1987
30 Years Old
In 1987, Sinbad landed a role in A Different World, a spin-off of The Cosby Show built around Lisa Bonet's character Denise Huxtable.
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1988
31 Years Old
While Bonet only stayed with the program for a season, Sinbad stayed with the cast from 1988 until 1991 as "Coach Walter Oakes".
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1990
33 Years Old
In 1990, Sinbad did his first stand-up comedy special for HBO called Sinbad: Brain Damaged.
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1991
34 Years Old
The Paramount Pictures film opened September 27, 1991, and grossed over $20 million at the box office.
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1993
36 Years Old
In 1993, Sinbad did his next stand-up special in New York City's Paramount Theater at Madison Square Garden called Sinbad - Afros and Bellbottoms for which he won a 1995 Image Award.
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By 1995, Sinbad had created a company called "David & Goliath Productions" that was located in Studio City.
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In 1996, Sinbad joined First Lady Hillary Clinton and musician Sheryl Crow in a USO tour in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
FORTIES
1998
41 Years Old
Spencer was fired in October, and replaced by Sinbad; the series lasted until the summer of 1998.
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1999
42 Years Old
He was also featured in a 1999 infomercial for Tae Bo, where he claimed that he was successfully using the Tae Bo system to become an action star.
2004
47 Years Old
In 2004 he was named the #78 greatest stand-up comic of all time on "Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time".
2006
49 Years Old
In 2006 Maxim Magazine ranked Sinbad as the "Worst Comic of All Time".
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FIFTIES
2008
51 Years Old
Sinbad also made a cameo appearance on the television show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as himself in a rehab center in the episode Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life, which originally aired October 23, 2008.
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2010
53 Years Old
On March 14, 2010, he debuted on the Celebrity Apprentice and was fired on the second episode (March 21, 2010) after losing in the Kodak challenge as project manager, placing 13th.
On January 25, 2011, he was the celebrity speaker of MacWorld Expo 2011.
2012
55 Years Old
Sinbad made an appearance on "The Eric Andre Show" June 25, 2012, a late night comedy sketch show that airs at 12:00am on "Adult Swim".
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