Best Comedian


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Readers' picks

Best Bartender
 Cat, The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Club DJ
 DJ Kid Fresh

Best Radio Personalities
 Paul Castronovo and Young Ron Brewer, Big 105.9

Best Athlete
 Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat

Best TV Personality
 Jade Alexander, WFOR-TV (Channel 4)
 
Benji Brown
www.benjibrown.com

 This is the year of Miramar High School graduate Benji Brown. Aside from his duties as a morning personality on 99 Jamz and weekly appearances at the Miami Improv, he has gone national with the release of the DVD In Touch With Reality, a slot on Diddy's comics showcase The Bad Boys of Comedy, a Bud Light commercial with Cedric the Entertainer that aired during the Super Bowl and a skit on Trick Daddy's latest, Thug Matrimony. "Trick Daddy would come in the Improv all the time, so when we were making the record, he just told me to do my thing," Brown explains. Brown's thing ranges from FCC-friendly to raunchy comedy. He practically loses his identity when he transforms into sketch character Ki-Ki, a squeaky-voiced ghetto girl, and his parody of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," in which he manically tries to sidestep an army of hos and crackheads, is already a classic.