Background and career
Alonzo Bodden (; born June 13, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and former political commentator. In 2004, he won NBC's reality competition TV show Last Comic Standing in its third season after being the runner-up in its second season earlier in the year. Bodden debuted his comedy album in 2001, and his hour-long DVD special and his half-hour television special in 2005. He has been a recurring panelist on NPR's quiz radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! since 2010, and has appeared as a host and contributor on news platform The Young Turks.
Bodden was born and raised in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, to an African American mother and an Afro-Honduran father.. Bodden went to Aviation High School in Long Island City, Queens. He went on to work for Lockheed Martin and McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach in the training department in the early 1990s.
Just for Laughs in Montreal provided the opportunity for Bodden's big break, opening the door for many other TV shows. He has been the host of the annual Just for Laughs festival in Bermuda over a dozen times. He hosted the Speed TV program 101 Cars You Must Drive. He is also a host for America's Worst Driver. He also guest starred on Angel. He has performed on numerous television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Make Me Laugh, Late Friday, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central Presents, and It's Showtime at the Apollo. He is also a voice actor who has worked on Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, Masked Rider, and O'Grady. Bodden appears as a panelist on NPR's news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. He has also been a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and on The Adam Carolla Show. He is a co-host of Inside the Vault on WGN America. In 2011, he was a panelist on a BBC America year-end television debut special of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He is also a recurring panelist currently on the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! weekly NPR show and podcast. During 2014, he was a comedic panelist on Game Show Network's original series Mind of a Man. In 2019, he released his special Heavy Lightweight on Amazon Prime Video. Bodden has regularly appeared as a commentator for The Young Turks network.
8 Guys (2003) (short film) Bringing Down the House (2003) The Girl Next Door (2004) Scary Movie 4 (2006) National Lampoon's Totally Baked: A Potumentary (2007) Why We Ride (2013)
Angel (2003) - Eddie Rhodes America's Worst Driver (2010) Californication S07 (2014) - Alonzo Fresh Off the Boat (2018) - Mr. Carlson The Great American Joke Off (2023) - Himself (recurring panelist) Mr. Birchum (2024) - Don Gage
Masked Rider – Ultivore (voice) Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue – Thunderon (voice) Fallout 76: Wastelanders – Aubrie Willem, Dontrelle Haines (voice)
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
