Michael Elliot “Mike” Epps (born November 18, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, singer, musician, and rapper, best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and the sequel-to-the-sequel, Friday After Next, and also starring alongside Ice Cube in All About The Benjamins. He is known as the new voice of Boog in Open Season 2 and Open Season 3.

As of 2010, Epps was the executive producer on a documentary about the life story of a former member of Tupac Shakur’s Outlawz, Napoleon: Life Of An Outlaw.