The BET Awards

Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions

Queen Latifah is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer and Academy Award-nominated actress best known to television audiences for her lead role as Khadijah James in the sitcom Living Single, appearing in 115 episodes from 1993-1998

Will Smith is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and multiple Grammy-winning hip hop artist

Steve Harvey is an American actor, comedian, entertainer, television and radio personality and best-selling author best known as the star of the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy

Jamie Foxx is an American R&B singer, pianist, comedian and actor who won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for his eponymous performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles

Mo'Nique is an American actress best known for her role as Nicole 'Nikki' Parker in the sitcom The Parkers (1999-2004) and for her role in the film Precious, which won her numerous awards including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award

Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress best known for her starring role as Joan Clayton on the television sitcom Girlfriends, from 2000-2008

Kevin Hart is an American actor and stand-up comedian best known for his roles in the feature films Scary Movie 3, Soul Plane and Scary Movie 4

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Cedric the Entertainer is an American actor and comedian best known as the co-star of the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy

Damon Wayans is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor best known to television audiences for his leading role as Michael Kyle in the sitcom My Wife and Kids, from 2001-2005.

D.L. Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian best known as the star and producer of his namesake television sitcom The Hughleys.

Chris Tucker is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as wisecracking detective James Carter in the Rush Hour movie trilogy

Chris Rock is the Emmy Award-winning executive producer, co-creator and narrator of UPN's comedy Everybody Hates Chris

Anthony Anderson is an American comedian and actor best known for his roles in the feature films Romeo Must Die, Big Momma's House and Me, Myself & Irene, all of which debuted in 2000

Larenz Tate is an American actor best known for his role as the automotively monikered Ford Lincoln Mercury in the 1997 Kevin Costner film The Postman; and for his role as Bart "Black Shawn" Johnson on the television drama series Rescue Me, from 2007-2011

Nick Cannon is an American actor, comedian, rapper and television personality