He is best known for hosting the Emmy Award-winning game show Cash Cab in New York City.

[2] Bailey was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and raised in Chatham Borough, New Jersey.

[4] Bailey attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, before moving to Los Angeles in 1993.

Standing at 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm),[1] he was offered a job as a bouncer for The Comedy Store after bumming a cigarette from a man in the parking lot.

Bailey does television commercials for Michigan electric/natural gas company DTE Energy and ALDI.