Sinbad was a comic in the underground comedy scene who eventually landed a role in A Different World, a spinoff of The Cosby Show that followed the lives of students attending an all-black college.

GRAND RAPIDS -- How can a movie be made called "21 Jump Street" without Holly Robinson Peete's character? That's what comedian Sinbad wants to know. "It's not right," he said in a recent interview. "I ...