Christopher Jerell Redd (born March 25, 1985) is an American comedian and actor. He was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2017 to 2022. For his work on the show, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2018 for co-writing the SNL song “Come Back Barack”.
Does Chris Redd Have Kids?
Chris Redd does not have any kids. He is single and not dating anyone. Redd was born on March 25, 1985, in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, at the age of eight. According to Redd, he had a childhood stutter that he overcame by learning how to rap.
He attended Naperville schools, including Gregory Middle School and Neuqua Valley High School, and later attended community college in Elgin, Illinois, where he took his first improvisational theater class.
Redd briefly pursued a career as a rapper but switched to sketch comedy after realizing that he enjoyed the improvisational comedy. He took comedy classes at Jokes & Notes, a now-closed comedy club in Chicago. Redd joined the comedy group The Second City and was a member of its touring company
