# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-l-hughley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:14:44.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/d-l-hughley"
name: "D. L. Hughley"
slug: "d-l-hughley"
description: "Darryl Lynn Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the \"Big Four\" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City. In early 2013, D. L. Hughley landed in ninth place on Dancing with the Stars."
tagline: "American actor and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D._L._Hughley%2C_Robin_Roberts%2C_and_Doreen_Ringer-Ross%2C_May_2013_(cropped)x.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.29
  momentum:             0.2879648760330578
  historical:           11.973624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/realdlhughley"
    handle:    "realdlhughley"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/realdlhughley/"
    handle:    "realdlhughley"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgJXR6IRfJXXechraj3F-Q"
    handle:    "UCzgJXR6IRfJXXechraj3F-Q"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/RealDLHughley"
    handle:    "RealDLHughley"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401018/"
    handle:    "nm0401018"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://realdlhughley.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دى. ال. هوجلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A6%DB%8E%DA%B5_%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "دی ئێڵ ھاولی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "D. L. Hughley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "D. L. Hughley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "D. L. Hughley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "D. L. Hughley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%E3%83%BBL%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "D・L・ヒューリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._L._%ED%9C%B4%EA%B8%80%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "D. L. 휴글리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.L._Hughley"
    title: "D.L. Hughley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84_%DB%81%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ڈی ایل ہگلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/D._L._Hughley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "D.L. Hughley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump