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He graduated from Marquette University with a degree in journalism and a took a job teaching emotionally disturbed children in Milwaukee, while continuing to do standup comedy.
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He is best known as one third of comedy trio Allah Made Maine Funny. Born Bryant Moss in Washington, District of Columbia, United States to African American parents, Clifford Moss and Mary Moss. He began practicing comedy at the age of seven, when he earned the nickname "Preacher" for his imitations of the pastor at his family"s church.
He was brought up as a Christian in a Maryland suburb and was sent to a local military academy for his schooling.
Moss started out doing sketch comedy when he was 17 and by his early 20s he began to make his way to comedy clubs. In 1994, Moss was the opening act for a comic Darrell Hammond, Hammond hired him as a writer
In order to develop his comedy skills, Moss moved to Los Los Angeles There, he continued to teach special education classes and worked as a writer for comedians, including Damon Wayans and George Lopez.
Moss moved on to perform at mainstream comedy venues.
Moss wrote his own show, titled End of Racism. Beginning in 2000, he toured hundreds of national college campuses and high schools performing, teaching, and discussing poverty, racism, multiculturalism, civil rights, and critical race theory. He performed "End of Racism" for four years when he got an idea for another kind of progressive comedy experience which addressed another kind of prejudice, that was spreading rapidly throughout non-Islamic communities in post-9/11 America.
He has also performed at the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet in Oklahoma City in 2010.
In March 2013, Moss started the process of securing funds to develop a pilot for a sitcom Here Come the Muhammads. In October 2013, production for the sitcom started.
