A popular comedian, actor, television host, radio personality, and prank phone-call specialist, Birmingham, Alabama native Rickey Smiley got his start in 2000 as the host of BET's Comic View program. A successful standup career followed -- as well as a starring role in Ice Cube's Friday After Next -- with high-profile appearances on Showtime at the Apollo and HBO's Def Comedy Jam, just to name a few, culminating in Smiley becoming the morning-show personality for radio station KBFB in Dallas, Texas in 2004. It was there that he honed the prank calls that would eventually becom...