Lavell Crawford Talks Lil Boosie, Club Shay Shay, Katt Williams, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and him losing 250 pounds.

Crawford began performing standup comedy professionally in 1990. He frequently performed on BET 's ComicView during the 1990s. He was a contestant on NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2007, where in the two-hour season finale he lost to Jon Reep . In 2011 at the Roberts Orpheum Theatre in St. Louis, he recorded Lavell Crawford: Can a Brother Get Some Love. Crawford portrayed Saul Goodman 's iconic bodyguard Huell Babineaux in the crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spinoff, Better Call Saul , from 2011 to 2022. He also played Babineaux in Huell's Rules , a non-canonical comedy short set after the events of Breaking Bad . Crawford has also appeared in comedic roles in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , Tosh.0 , The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore , and Aqua TV Show Show . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices