Michael Elliot "Mike" Epps is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer and rapper. He is regarded as one of the funniest comic actors to emerge in the Hollywood scene as of late. A major portion of his fame happened with his association with several Ice Cube films, including Next Friday, How High Friday After Next, and All About the Benjamins. Apart from featuring with Ice Cube, all of these films have hilarious marijuana-smoking comic characters like the ones portrayed by Epps. Born in Indianapolis, he began performing stand-up as a teenager. He starred in Def Comedy Jam while his first major film role was in Vin Diesel's Strays, a dramatic portrayal of relationships and drugs. He had several other feature-film appearances including Bait and 3 Strikes. He performed the voice of Sonny in Dr. Dolittle 2. As he gained more recognition, his comedic talent began to blossom, as demonstrated in, All About the Benjamins, Friday After Next, The Honeymooners, Talk to Me, The Hangover, and Sparkle. In addition, he has appeared in many videos and has guest starred on several rap and hip-hop songs, including "A Bay Bay" by Hurricane Chris. He has a song to his credit too.