The Bold and the Beautiful's Wayne Brady launches comedy competition series

Comedian Wayne Brady (ex-Reese Buckingham, The Bold and the Beautiful) has created a new competition series that will feature young comics across the country vying for the highest "comedy IQ." The reality series, titled Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ, is set to debut this April.

Comedian Wayne Brady is branching out from CBS Daytime. The star, who hosts Let's Make a Deal and did a guest-starring appearance as The Bold and the Beautiful's Reese Buckingham, has teamed with BYUtv for an upcoming game show called Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ.

Created and hosted by Brady, the series will feature talented young comics from across the country who compete in a one-of-a-kind performers' boot camp to demonstrate the highest "comedy IQ." Each new challenge will teach them to be multifaceted in writing, directing, performing, and creating comedic and musical content. Along the way, the teens will learn universal skills that can bring them success in the real world.

"I'm so grateful to BYUtv for giving me the chance to pass on my 30 years plus of comedy and performing knowledge," Brady says via an official press release. "It means so much to me to help the next generation of funny along. I get to give the comedy guidance I never had at that age!"

Says Michael Dunn, managing director of BYUtv, "The brilliant Wayne Brady and his producing partner, Mandie Taketa, came to us with a passion and plan for finding and nurturing young artists that we were delighted to make a reality. What's special about Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ is that it guides the contestants in navigating achievement, rejection and resiliency both in the entertainment industry and in everyday life. It's a positive show about the human side of humor and reaching our own potential."

Wayne Brady's Comedy IQ has completed production in Los Angeles and was executive produced by Brady, Mandie Taketa, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Mechelle Collins, and Kevin Dill. The ten-episode unscripted series will premiere on April 6, 2020, on BYUtv.

Wayne Brady has made his mark on stage and screen as an actor, singer, dancer, improviser, songwriter, and television personality. He was named the winner of season two of The Masked Singer in December 2019, after which he dropped an original single titled "Flirtin' with Forever." Brady is known across America as host of the CBS game show Let's Make a Deal, which has earned him two Daytime Emmy Awards -- Outstanding Game Show Host and Outstanding Original Song. He also was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his guest-starring role on B&B, which aired in 2019. He won two Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show for The Wayne Brady Show in 2003 and 2004, and a Primetime Emmy in 2003 for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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Some of his other credits include Chappelle's Show, Colony, Aftermath, How I Met Your Mother, Key and Peele, Everybody Hates Chris, and 30 Rock. He can next be seen in the CW's Black Lightning as Gravedigger, a character that will reportedly show up this February.

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