{"id":1960559,"date":"2025-08-14T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1960559"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:33:25","slug":"innovative-artists-entertainment-signs-comedian-cp-and-benji-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/innovative-artists-entertainment-signs-comedian-cp-and-benji-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Artists Entertainment Signs Comedian CP and Benji Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/innovative-artists-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_innovative-artists-entertainment\" data-tag=\"innovative-artists-entertainment\">Innovative Artists Entertainment<\/a> has signed Comedian CP and Benji Brown for representation in all areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tComedian CP is currently a writer and producer on the second season of \u201cDiarra From Detroit\u201d for BET+. He previously served as a writer\/producer and played DeShawn on \u201cHow to Die Alone\u201d for Hulu\/Onyx, winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Scripted Series. He also starred on the second season of the HBO Max anthology series \u201cLove Life,\u201d which will be streaming on Netflix starting Aug. 5th. Comedian CP created and starred in the Adult Swim special \u201cOle Bud\u2019s Anu Football Weekly\u201d and recurred as Ned on the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series \u201cDetroiters.\u201d \u201cSunday After Six,\u201d his debut comedy special produced by 800 Pound Gorilla and Artists First is currently available on VEEPS as well as all TVOD platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe continues to be represented by Artists First and attorney Gregg Gellman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBenji Brown currently hosts Martin Lawrence\u2019s \u201cYall Know What It Is Tour,\u201d taking place from now until Fall 2025. Brown led the \u201cAct Crazy If You Want To\u201d tour as a stand alone headliner in 2019. He\u2019s worked with additional headliners including Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, Rickey Smiley and Monique. His list of shows and appearances include \u201cNick Cannon Presents: Wild \u2018n Out\u201d (Lionsgate), \u201cThe Rickey Smiley Show\u201d and \u201cJamie Foxx Presents Laffapalooza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe signings come amid a period of continued growth for Innovative Artists Entertainment, particularly in the comedy division, whose worldwide group is led by Tamra Goins.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed Comedian CP and Benji Brown for representation in all areas. Comedian CP is currently a writer and producer on the second season of \u201cDiarra From Detroit\u201d for BET+. He previously served as a writer\/producer and played DeShawn on \u201cHow to Die Alone\u201d for Hulu\/Onyx, winner of the Independent Spirit Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1960560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[343659],"class_list":["post-1960559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-innovative-artists-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Innovative-Artists-Entertainment-Signs-Comedian-CP-and-Benji-Brown.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}