In 2005 a nationally syndicated television show, The Tom Joyner Show was launched with Joyner as emcee of a one hour comedy show, combining sketch comedy featuring the Tom Joyner Show Players, talent contests, and musical performances by such artists as Earth, Wind and Fire, Brian McKnight, Kenneth Babyface Edmonds and Toni Braxton/
In 2005 Warner Books published I’m Just a DJ but … It Makes Sense to Me written with his longtime writer, Mary Flowers Boyce. The book chronicles Tom’s childhood and early days in radio as well as offers Joyner’s thoughts on HBCUs, the power of the black consumer and fatherhood.
In February 2009, Amber Books published Tom Joyner Presents How to Prepare for College, a primer for parents and their children offering specific suggests and advice.
With his first wife Dora, Tom is the father of two sons, Thomas Jr. (below, left) and Oscar (below, right) whom he calls “Killer” and “Thriller.” He is currently married to celebrity aerobics instructor, Donna Richardson (pictured above, right, with Oprah’s BFF Gail)
