I've told this story a million times but I feel like you need to know...

Why they call you DooDooh?

Sometime in High School...

THe name came from hanging around various idiots for long periods of time. I walked down the basement steps of long time friend P.Lowe's house (hangout) as Luke's "I Wanna Rock" was playing and he decided my nickname should be DooDooh Brown. I totally objected to the nickname assignment. (Paul has always been Mr. Nickname assigner: fants, Bebop, and a host of other unexplainably horrible nicknames) "I am not answering to DooDooh, fuck yall! Why can't Marshall or Jermaine be DooDooh?" I complained and moved on.

So as basketball season for the Tigers started and my friends would show up to home games enjoyably inebriated and sit in the upper corner of the bleachers. When I would check in the games I would hear a chant-like groan ..Doooo Doooooh. No one really payed attention to it, or realized who they were talking about, or cared, and I was happy with that cause it was a nickname I didn't want. No one that is but Kiel Robinson who would ask me about last night's game in the hallway the next day and let me know he was aware of the nickname.

Fast Forward to College...

As a student on the campus of Hampton University (the better HU!) a large percentage of my friends I already had the pleasure of knowing before college. Of this group of friends there were atleast 5 Marcus' including me. There was Fats (self explanatory), Football Marcus (who also went by Fat Daddy which I refused to call him cause it seemmed & still seems gay) cause he played on the Football Team, Kojak (I think cause he had a bald head), Mute (cause I never heard him speak), and me. Kiel one day decided to call me by DooDooh in front of people who ran with it and would never call me Marcus again! The inside nickname was  now out. When being introduced to people (females particularly) I would never refer to myself as DooDooh ...but it did have a nice "come-hither" ring to it when sexy females would say it (after getting over the initial "ugggh, why do you let them call you that??). And there were those who had a special dance and a special way to say it combo that made me conclude if you can't beat em... Join them! (but still would never refer to myself or introduce myself as ...DooDooh!) To this day when I speak to alumns, we'll re-introduce ouselves and I'll say, "Hi I am Marcus" and they'll reply "That's not what I know you as.."

In the comedy game...

My first time performing was at Takoma Station with the help of World Famous Red Grant. I told 2 people that I might be getting on stage to tell jokes and ended up packing the room (in the back of my mind I felt like they came not to support but to see if this shit was real and will he fail?) I was 3rd or forth and my friends heckled off every comic before me, screaming out where is DooDooh? Red wondered who they were referring to because their was no DooDooh on the list. I informed him that it was an unfortunate nickname, he introduced me as it, and I did it well. 
     While I know I will probably never get away from it as a nickname,  on stage I plan to gradually phaze it out like the Fresh Prince to Will Smith phaze out