Booking Arsenio Hall

Arsenio Hall Biography

Arsenio Hall was born in 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio. Before embarking on a career in comedy and film, Hall attended Ohio University and Kent State University. He moved to Los Angeles following graduation and began appearing occasionally on Soul Train, before landing the role as Alan Thicke’s announcer for the show Thick of the Night.

Arsenio Hall’s big breakthrough came with the co-starring role alongside Eddie Murphy in Coming to America in 1988. The Arsenio Hall Show followed in 1989, and ran successfully until 1994. Aside from being a highly rated show known for featuring some of the period’s greatest entertainers, Hall also used the show as a vehicle to educate and inform about the HIV and AIDS crisis, often alongside his friend Magic Johnson, who appeared on the show shortly after publicly acknowledging that he’d acquired the condition.

The Arsenio Hall Show ended in the mid 1990’s, but Arsenio Hall has continued his career into the new millennium with innumerous roles on television, including hosting Star Search from 2003-2004, appearing on Chappelle’s Show in 2004, and hosting The World’s Funniest Moments. Hall appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, The Jay Leno Show, Piers Morgan Tonight, and Lopez Tonight in 2012. His most notable appearance in recent years was as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice, a challenge that he won, beating out semi-finalist Clay Aiken.

Arsenio Hall remained out of the spotlight for the years between 2013 and 2016, mainly to focus on spending time with his newborn son. In 2016, Hall resurfaced to host the ABC television show Greatest Hits. Hall’s most recent television appearance is in the 2017 telefilm Sandy Wexler, in which he appears as himself.