What NBC show was the actor of the title character of Fat Albert a cast member of?
Fat Albert (film) Fat Albert is a 2004 American live-action/animated fantasy romantic comedy film based on the Filmation animated series of the same name created by Bill Cosby. The film was produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and stars Kenan Thompson as the title character alongside Cosby himself in a key supporting role. Unlike films that meld the cartoon world with the real world while at the same time keeping the cartoon characters two-dimensional (e.g., "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Space Jam", ""), "Fat Albert" takes a twist and transforms the cartoon characters into three-dimensional humans, who have to come to grips with the differences that exist between their world and the real world. The film acts as a continuation of the series; its plot surrounds Fat Albert and the gang leaving their 1970s cartoon world and entering the 21st century real world in order to help a teenage girl, Doris Robertson (Kyla Pratt), deal with the challenges of being unpopular, and not having any friends aside from her foster sister, Lauri. Doris has withdrawn and fallen into depression after the death of her grandfather, Albert Robertson (who was a friend of Cosby and the real-life inspiration for the Fat Albert character). Fat Albert and the gang must show her that she is special and that she can make friends. But if Fat Albert and his friends stay in the real world, they will turn to celluloid dust, and it is up to Cosby to help them get them back into the cartoon world.
Bert Kreischer Albert "Bert" Kreischer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and reality television host. In 1997, as a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, he was featured in "Rolling Stone" as "the top partier" at Florida State University, the "top party school in the US", while he was in his sixth year of college. The "Rolling Stone" article was the inspiration for the 2002 movie "Van Wilder". From 2000 to 2001, he was the co-host of the FX Network variety show "The X Show". A segment that aired on the show, "Ass Wax", where Kreischer had his hair removed with hot wax, led Kreischer to gain his own show on the FX Network, titled "Hurt Bert", in 2004. In the same year, he had a role in an episode of the police drama "The Shield".