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Lewis Black
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Birth nameLewis Niles Black
Born (1948-08-30) August 30, 1948 (age 75)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Medium
Education University of Maryland, College Park
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA)
Yale University (MFA)
Years active1970s–present
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Subject(s)
Website lewisblack.com

Lewis Niles Black [1] (born August 30, 1948) [2] is an American stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, and cultural trends.

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He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show delivering his "Back in Black" commentary segment, which he has been doing since The Daily Show was hosted by Craig Kilborn. [3] He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004; and was voted 5th in Comedy Central's Stand Up Showdown in 2008 and 11th in 2010. In 2015, he appeared as the voice of Anger in the Pixar film Inside Out, a role he will reprise in the 2024 sequel, Inside Out 2 .

Lewis Black is also a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority, appearing in television ads that first aired in late 2009 and 2010. He has served as an "ambassador for voting rights" for the American Civil Liberties Union since 2013. [4] Since 2022, he has been the chair of the executive committee and the board of directors of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. He had been an honorary member of the board for about 10 years before that. [5] [6]

When not on the road performing, Black resides in Manhattan, but also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Early life

Lewis Black was born on August 30, 1948, in Washington, D.C., [7] the elder son of Jeannette Black (née Kaplan; 1918-2022), a teacher, and Samuel Black (1918–2019), an artist and mechanical engineer. [8] He had a younger brother, Ronald, who died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 47. [9]

He is Jewish and was raised in a middle-class Jewish family in the Burnt Mills neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. [10] His grandparents emigrated from the Russian Empire, including Chornyi Ostriv in Ukraine and Białystok in Poland and his paternal grandfather was originally named Leib Blech, later changed to Louis Black. [11] Black graduated from Springbrook High School in 1966. [12]

Black recounts in his book Nothing's Sacred that he scored highly on the math section of his SAT exam and later applied to Yale, Princeton, Brown, Amherst, Williams, and Georgetown. Every college he applied to except Georgetown rejected him, but by that point he had decided he did not want to go there, so he attended the University of Maryland, College Park for one year before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, he studied playwriting and was a brother of Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity and a member of Student Congress. [13] After graduating in 1970, Black moved to Colorado Springs with a group of performers based in Chapel Hill, purchased an old log cabin theater and attempted to establish a theatre company. Calling themselves the Homestead Arts Theatre, the group performed regionally at parks, schools, and prisons, but were unable to open the theatre due to code violations. [14] [15] He eventually returned to Washington where he worked at the Appalachian Regional Commission, wrote plays, and performed stand-up comedy at the Brickskeller in Dupont Circle. [2]

He earned an MFA degree at the Yale School of Drama in 1977, and was married for ten months when he was 26 years old. [2] [16]

Black's career began in theater as a playwright; however, he has stated that he was always doing stand-up "on the side." [3] He served as the playwright-in-residence and associate artistic director of Steve Olsen's West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theatre Bar in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, where he collaborated with composer and lyricist Rusty Magee and artistic director Rand Foerster on hundreds of one-act plays[ citation needed ] from 1981 to 1989. Also with Rusty Magee, Black wrote the musical The Czar of Rock and Roll, which premiered at Houston's Alley Theatre in 1990. Black's stand-up comedy began as an opening act for the plays; he was also the master of ceremonies. After a management change at the theater, Black left and began working as a comedian, as well as finding bit parts in television and films.

Comedic style

Black lists his comedic influences as George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Bob Newhart and Shelley Berman. [17]

Career

Stand-up comedy

In 1994, Black appeared on A&E's An Evening at the Improv. [18]

In 1998, Black starred in his first comedy special on the series Comedy Central Presents. He starred in two additional episodes of the series in 2000 and 2002. He starred in another special for the network in 2002, titled Taxed Beyond Belief. In 2004 and 2005, Black hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival. In 2004, he had an HBO stand-up special titled Black on Broadway. Black hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '07, which aired on December 2, 2007, along with Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley.

In 2006, Black performed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. for an HBO special, Red, White, and Screwed. It aired in June and a DVD was released in October. When explaining his choice of venue, Black said that "some asshole" was paid to count the number of times the word "fuck" was said in his previous HBO special, Black On Broadway, and that the original location, the Kennedy Center, wanted him to cut back on its use. Black was told the number was 42, when actually it was approximately 78. [19]

Black received a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Comedy Album" for his album The Carnegie Hall Performance . [20] He hosted the Comedy Central television series The Root of All Evil in 2008. The show pitted two people or pop-culture topics against each other as a panel of comedians argued, in the style of a court trial, which is more evil, e.g., "Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney" and "Internet Porn vs. YouTube". After hearing arguments from both sides, Black, acting as judge, made the final decision as to which is more evil. [21] In 2008, Black hosted History of the Joke with Lewis Black, [22] a 2-hour comedy-documentary on The History Channel.

Comedy Central's "Stand-Up Month" in 2008 featured specials originally presented on HBO by Black, along with programs featuring Dane Cook and Chris Rock. That year, as part of Comedy Central's "Stand-Up Month", Black's routine finished at #5 on "Stand-Up Showdown 2008", a viewer-based countdown of the top Comedy Central Presents routine. In 2009, Black filmed two shows at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan. These were the basis for the concert film Stark Raving Black, which appeared in theaters for a limited time in October, and was released on video the next year. [23] At the end of 2009, Black returned to the History Channel to host Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black, in which he discussed the year-end pressures of Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year's.

In 2011, Black filmed two shows at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [24] The shows were used for Black's comedy special In God We Rust. The special premiered on Epix HD. [25] An extended and uncensored version of the special was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11, 2011. [26]

In August 2013, Black recorded his ninth stand-up special Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata . Deadline reported that Black and the company that was releasing the stand-up special, Image Entertainment, would later air it in the form of pay-per-view and VOD, making it the first comedy special to air simultaneously on all cable, satellite and telco platforms. [27]

In October 2020, Black released his fourteenth stand-up special, Thanks for Risking Your Life , live at the Four Winds New Buffalo casino. [28] The special was filmed at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown and reflects that in material. [29]

Film and television career

On the screen

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Black in 2007 at "Stand Up for Heroes"

Black appeared in episode 25 "Aria" (1991) of Law and Order as porn director Franklin Frome, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Obscene" (2004) as a shock jock, and in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Jiminy Conjecture" (2009) as Professor Crawley, an entomologist. He also released his autobiography, Nothing's Sacred , in 2005. Since November 9, 2005, Black has been making appearances in small segments on The Weather Channel. In December 2005, he appeared in an animated holiday special The Happy Elf , as the voice of the extremely tightly wound elf, Norbert.

In the film Accepted , a film about high school graduates who create a college when they fail to get accepted into any, he played Dean Ben Lewis of the school "South Harmon Institute of Technology". He also appeared in the 2006 films Man of the Year and Unaccompanied Minors . Black hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '06, which aired on December 10, 2006.

Voice

Black was the voice of "Manobrain" during the third season of the Cartoon Network series Duck Dodgers . He was the inventor of a diet pill which was stolen while he was in college. He blamed the theft on his college friend Dr. I. Q. Hi, not realizing that the actual thief was Duck Dodgers. The theft set Manobrain on the path of evil.

He provided the voice of the Deadly Duplicator in four episodes of the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and in the video game based on the show.

Black provided the voice of oxpecker Ted in the My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode, "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey". The character is portrayed in the same fashion as his comedy shows, though without profanity. In addition, the bird's clothes, looks, and mannerisms resemble his.

He also voiced Mr. E/Ricky Owens in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles played a middle-aged man named Vic who is kidnapped by the Kraang and mutated into a spider-like monster called "Spider-Bytez" by Michelangelo.

Black voiced Anger in the Pixar film Inside Out .

He also guest starred as the voice of Santa Claus in the SpongeBob SquarePants episodes "Goons on the Moon", "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas" and would reprise the role in spinoff series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years .

Tours

On June 18, 2007, he sat in with Southern rock/Jam band Gov't Mule at the 6th annual Bonnaroo music festival, where he had performed earlier that weekend, for what was to be a quick joke. A member of the audience threw a bottle at Black, which struck him. Black was upset and he encouraged the audience to boo the heckler before leaving the stage in disgust, while shouting obscenities at the heckler. This act was seen in an episode of Lewis Black's Root of All Evil titled "YouTube vs. simply".

On June 29, 2007, Black gave a benefit show at Springbrook High School, his alma mater, in the school's auditorium for 1,100 alumni, faculty, and students. He performed in his usual style, stopping at points to remark how good it felt to use that language on that particular stage. At the end of the show he was given a Springbrook football jersey, and cursed at one teacher for giving him a B and causing him not to graduate first in his class.

In mid-December 2007, Black went with Robin Williams, Kid Rock, Lance Armstrong and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007, on a United Service Organizations trip to support the troops in Iraq and Kuwait. The last show was on December 22 at the U.S Naval Station in Rota, Spain. In 2008, Black went on tour to promote his book Me of Little Faith. [30] Black did a stand-up tour called "Let Them Eat Cake", with material from that tour being featured on his comedy album Anticipation . Beginning in January 2010, Black embarked on a new tour called "In God We Rust".[ citation needed ]

In 2000, Black and fellow comedian Jim Norton were arrested for their involvement[ clarification needed ] with "The Naked Teen Voyeur Bus", [31] a specially designed bus with acrylic glass walls containing numerous 18- and 19-year-old topless women. This bus was driven around Manhattan while reports about it were broadcast on the Opie and Anthony radio show. [3] The radio station management did not inform the O&A show that the bus's route was also the route that President Bill Clinton was using that day. Twenty-eight hours after their arrest, Black and Norton were released. Black appeared on The Daily Show the following night where he stated he was exercising his constitutional rights. He then joked that the location of this particular right was unclear, but that it was "between 'all men are created equal' and 'don't shit where you eat.'" [32]

Published works

Media releases

CDs

DVDs

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Paul
1990 Jacob's Ladder Jacob's Doctor
1991 The Hard Way Banker
1993 The Night We Never Met Marty Holder
Joey Breaker Pete Grimm
2000Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick StoryBurtShort film
2002American DummyClub Owner
2003The GynecologistsCookie LaMotte
2006 Accepted Ben Lewis
Man of the Year Eddie Langston
Falling for Grace Rob York
Unaccompanied Minors Oliver Porter
2007 Farce of the Penguins Jimmy (voice)
2008 History of the Joke NarratorDocumentary
No Free LunchLewisShort film
What Blows Up Must Come Down!Furry Murray
2009Ollie & the Baked HalibutBaked HalibutShort film
2010 Peep World Narrator
2011 Afghan Luke Himself
2013Comedy Warriors: Healing through Humor [33] [34] Himself
2015Introducing Parker DowdDrewShort film
Inside Out Anger (voice)
Riley's First Date? Short film
Stereotypically YouCharlie's Therapist
2016 Rock Dog Linnux (voice)
Better Off SingleTherapist
2017 Gilbert HimselfDocumentary
Imitation GirlLew
2019 The Last Laugh Max Becker
2024 Inside Out 2 Anger (voice)

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990–1991 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Bernie5 episodes
1991 Law & Order Director Franklin FromeSeason 2, Episode 3: "Aria"
1994A&E's An Evening at the ImprovHimselfSeason 15, Episode 17
1996–present The Daily Show Commentator"Back in Black" segment [35]
1997 Homicide: Life on the Street Laslo "Punchy" DeleonEpisode: "Deception"
1997 Mad About You The Pizza SliceSeason 6, Episode 7: "Le Sex Show"
2003 The Brak Show Brain Slug / Zorak2 episodes
2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit BJ CameronEpisode: "Obscene"
2005 Duck Dodgers Manobrain (voice)Episode: "A Lame Duck Mind"
2005 The Happy Elf Norbert (voice)TV movie
2005–2007 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law The Deadly Duplicator, Elliott (voices)four episodes
2006Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed [36] HimselfHBO comedy special
2007 My Gym Partner's a Monkey Ted (voice)Episode 36: "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey"
2008 Lewis Black's Root of All Evil Himself
2009 The Big Bang Theory Professor CrawleySeason 3, Episode 2: "The Jiminy Conjecture"
2010 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Mr. E/Adult Ricky Owens (voice)
2011 Robotomy Gore-Ax (voice)Episode: "Mean Green"
2011 The Penguins of Madagascar Dale (voice)Episode: "Arch-Enemy/The Big S.T.A.N.K."
2012–2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Spider Bytez / Vic (voice)two episodes
2016 Madoff Ezra MerkinMiniseries
2016 Crisis in Six Scenes Al2 episodes
2017 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! Mayor Stoughton (voice)Episode: "World of Witchcraft"
2017 The President Show Trump's PsycheEpisode: "Joe Cirincione"
2018–2021 SpongeBob SquarePants Santa Claus (voice)2 episodes, guest voice
2019 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Ragely J. Snarlingtooth (voice)Episode: "The Angry Abnormal Atrocities of the Astute Animal Aggressors"
2021 Devil May Care Atheist Steve (voice)Episode: "The Atheist"
2021 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years Santa Claus (voice)Episode: "The Ho! Ho! Horror!", guest voice
2023 The Daily Show Himself (Guest Host)Delayed due to Writers' Strike (Originally for Week of June 20) [37]

Video games

YearTitleRole
2008 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law The Deadly Duplicator
2015 Disney Infinity 3.0 [38] Anger

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