In 2003, Mitchell became a featured player on Saturday Night Live. After two seasons, in 2005, he was promoted to full cast member.[3] His screen time was drastically reduced after this promotion.[4] On September 20, 2006, Saturday Night Live announced that the show was dropping Mitchell, Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz from the show due to budget cuts.
From 2008 to 2009, Mitchell made several appearances on The Today Show as a guest correspondent and on Tyra and Chelsea Lately as a guest panelist. In 2010, he appeared in the Comedy Central sketch series Nick Swardson's Pretend Time.
With the help of Quincy Jones's son QD3, Mitchell released his stand-up comedy DVD titled Snap Famous. His 2007 book, Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much, gives dating advice to African-American women.[1][6]
In January 2015, he appeared at Ron White’s Comedy Salute to the Troops. In 2016 he recurred as Harvey in the Showtime series Roadies. He had a role in the film Barely Lethal.
On December 4, 2019, Mitchell was cast as a series regular, playing Irwin on the Fox comedy Outmatched. The character is the best friend of main character Mike.[10]
In 2022, he appeared on the Netflix baking competition Is It Cake? as a judge.[11]
Personal life
On September 13, 2008, he married Jessica Santos in Atlanta.[12] On May 20, 2011, Mitchell and Santos divorced.
He married again, in September 2013, to Adris DeBarge, daughter of singer El DeBarge.[9][13] Their eldest daughter was born in March 2015.[14]
Elle Kate is their youngest daughter.
