 He attended Chesterfield Elementary School (where by his own admission he was a class comedian), and when he became a teenager (after his family had moved to suburban Shaker Heights), he attended Shaker Heights High School, where he graduated in 1972.Malone then went to college, originally attending Cleveland State University, transferring after a semester to Morehouse College in Atlanta, before settling in at Ohio University, where he eventually graduated from in the mid '70s.After college, Malone had bounced around between jobs as an insurance salesman and a real estate agent (following in his father's footsteps), while performing as a stand-up comedian on the side.