Ali LeRoi

Ali LeRoi (born February 12, 1962) is an Emmy Award-winning American television producer, director, writer and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chris Rock semi-autobiographical sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series in 2008. LeRoi met Rock during the set on his eponymous HBO late-night talk show in 1997. LeRoi wrote and directed several episodes of the series, on a team that earned four consecutive Emmy Award nominations (1998-2001) for "Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program," winning that Emmy in 1999. In 2001, the talk show was also nominated for "Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series," citing LeRoi as a Supervising Producer. A native of Chicago, LeRoi attended Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy. He then studied film at Columbia College Chicago. LeRoi also co-hosted the podcast called "Alias Smith and LeRoi" (2013–15) with comedian Owen H.M. Smith.