Kid Fury

Gregory A. Smith At the time of the launch he also had a comedy blog and created the YouTube account to drive traffic to his blog. His videos featured comedic, unfiltered takes on pop culture and his real life and attracted a large, diverse audience. The New York Observer called him "Black Twitter's Kingmaker", and Ebony'''s Jamilah Lemieux compared him to Eddie Murphy.

Kid Fury moved to New York City in 2012. Fury asked West to join him and they named the podcast The Read. , The Read was averaging 400,000 listeners per episode. In 2019, the podcast's television adaptation, The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle West, premiered on Fuse.

Television work In 2016, Kid Fury put on a live version of his show that consisted largely of stand-up comedy, called "Furious Thoughts Live".

In July 2018, it was announced that Kid Fury was developing a television show for HBO with executive producer Lena Waithe. The project is described as a "surreal dark comedy" that will follow a gay Black man in his twenties, navigating life in New York City with depression. He also appeared in two episodes of the show's first season.

Personal life Fury is openly gay. In an interview with HuffPost'', he stated, "I want people to understand that being black and gay is so different than just being gay...Black women get overlooked in the fight for women all of the time, so there's I think a similar thing that happens in the gay community with black gays."

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