     
BIG SUMMER FOR COMEDIAN AKINTUNDE and HINTS OF AN EVEN BIGGER FALL & WINTER
Summer 2012 proved to be the busiest summer on record for comedian, writer, actor, and director, Akintunde. In addition to releasing his first DVD in 5 years, “Akintunde Live From Atlanta: The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But” on Atlanta’s Arrow Records, Akintunde subsequently hit the road on the first leg of his annual national tour“The Rebirth of Comedy Tour”. This included stops at the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, LA where Akintunde was a featured comedian on the TBS LOL Lounge stage. Following a much celebrated tour stop to his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, Akintunde hit the main stage in front of thousands at Grammy winner, Cece Winans’ “Always Sisters Forever Brothers” annual youth conference.
He then, capped the summer with an hilarious appearance on TBN’s Praise The Lord, followed by filming a cameo appearance in the upcoming film, “Cataract”, from the newly formed, Creflo Dollar Films, and finally, as host of the three day celebration of Houston’s Bishop I.V. Hilliard’s 50/60 Celebration which featured some of Gospel music’s A-list and most notable Pastors, as they celebrated the Bishop’s 50 years of ministry and 60 years of life. With all of this, Akintunde was honored to continue to tour with Drs. Creflo and Taffi Dollar on the ‘Change Experience’ tour for the third year in a row.
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Akintunde has become one of the “Go To” hosts in the Gospel Music industry having hosted the production of the annual Stellar Awards taping in Nashville Tennessee for the past 4 years. This fall will find Akintunde working in front of and behind the cameras, as he preps for multiple television projects. The 20 year comedy veteran is being “tight lipped” about the projects, but offered that they will span several television formats.
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Akintunde has more than 350 original hours of television to his credit as the former Head Writer for the BET late night series, “The Mo’Nique Show”. 2 year stint as Monologue Writer for “Showtime At The Apollo”, plus “The BET Awards”, and “The NAACP Image Awards”. In addition, Akintunde is a frequent “Ghost Writer” for some of the biggest names in Comedy.
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