Lewis Black

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Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, playwright, social critic, and actor.

He is best known for his vivacious demeanor and ferocious comedic style, in which he often mimics having a mental breakdown.

His comedies often morph into inflammatory debates about history, politics, faith, or other societal trends.

Black formerly worked on Comedy Central's Roots of All Evil and appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah's "Back in Black" commentary segment, which he has been doing since Craig Kilborn hosted the show.

He also appears in television ads that first aired in late 2009 and 2010, as well as the voice of Anger in 2015's Pixar film Inside Out.

In 2004, Comedy Central selected him 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time; he was voted 5th in 2008 and 10th in 2010.

Since 2013, Black has been a "ambassador for voting rights" for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Early life

Lewis Black was born in Washington, D.C., in the elder son of Jeannette Black (née Kaplan; 1918-2022), a scholar, and Samuel Black (1918–2019), an artist and mechanical engineer. Ronald, his younger brother, who died in 1997 at the age of 47 after a fight with cancer, was his father.

He was raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Silver Spring, Maryland's Burnt Mills neighborhood. His grandparents, including Chornyi Ostriv and Biaystok, immigrated from the Russian Empire, and his paternal grandfather, Leib Blech, was later identified as Louis Black, which later became Leib Blech. In 1966, Black graduated from Springbrook High School.

Black reveals in his book Nothing's Sacred that he scored well on his SAT math section and applied to Yale, Princeton, Brown, Amherst, Williams, and Georgetown. Every college except Georgetown refused him, but by that time, he had already decided he did not want to go to college, so he enrolled the University of Maryland, College Park for one year before heading to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He studied playwriting and was a member of the Student Congress and a brother of Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity. After graduating in 1970, he returned to Washington, where he worked with the Appalachian Regional Commission and performed stand-up comedy at the Brickskeller in Dupont Circle.

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.

Black's career began as a playwright, but he has also stated that he was always doing stand-up "on the side." He performed as the playwright-in-residence and associate artistic director of Steve Olsen's West Bank Café 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 performances ranging from 1981 to 1989. The Czar of Rock and Roll, written by Rusty Magee, was also produced by Black in the Houston's Alley Theatre in 1990. Black's stand-up comedy began as an opening act for the productions; he also served as the master of ceremonies. Following a leadership change at the theater, Black left and began acting as a comedian, as well as getting bit parts in television and films.

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Career

Black appeared on A&E's An Evening at the Improv in 1994.

Black appeared in his first comedy special on the program Comedian Presents in 1998. In 2000 and 2002, he appeared in two additional episodes of the series. In 2002, he appeared in another special for the network named Taxed Beyond Belief. Black hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, he appeared on Broadway for the first time. Last Laugh '07, a black comedy series on Comedy Central, starred Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley was a character in the film "The Prince of Hughley"

Black appeared on HBO's special, Red, White, and Screwed, at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 2006. It premiered in June and a DVD was released in October. In his previous HBO special, Black On Broadway, Black said, "some asshole" was paid to count the number of times the word "fuck" was used in his previous HBO show, Black On Broadway, and that the original location, the Kennedy Center, wanted him to limit the use of the word "fuck" was used. Black was told that the number was 42, when in reality it was actually 78.

Black's album The Carnegie Hall Show received a Grammy Award for his album "Best Comedy Album" in 2007. In 2008, he hosted The Root of All Evil, a comedy central television series. In the style of a court trial, two individuals or pop-culture topics were pitted against each other as a panel of comedians debated, "Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney" and "Internet Porn vs. YouTube" is among the show's debates. After hearing testimony from both sides of the controversy, Black, acting as judge, made the final decision about which is more harmful. On The History Channel, Black hosted History of the Joke, a 2-hour comedy-documentary.

The "Stand-Up Month" on Comedy Central in 2008 premiered on HBO by Black, as well as programs starring Dane Cook and Chris Rock. Black's routine debuted at number 5 on "Stand-Up Showdown 2008," a viewer-based countdown of the top Comedy Central Presents routine, earlier this year. In 2009, Black appeared at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan. These were the origins of the concert film Stark Raving Black, which was in theaters for a limited period in October, and was released on video next year. In an interview with Lewis Black, the year-end pressures of Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year's have come back to the History Channel to host Surviving the Holidays.

In 2011, Black filmed two shows at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The shows were used for Black's comediest In God We Rust, which was used on Black's comedy special In God We Rust. On Epix HD, the special premiered. On September 11, 2011, an expanded and uncensored version of the special was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

In August 2013, Black performed his ninth stand-up special, Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata. Black and the corporation that had announced the stand-up special, Image Entertainment, would air it on pay-per-view and VOD later this month, making it the first comedy special to air simultaneously on all cable, satellite, and telco platforms.

Thanks for Risking Your Life, Black's fourteenth stand-up special, was released live at the Four Winds New Buffalo casino in October 2020. The special was shot at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown and represents this in terms.

In episode 25 "Aria" (1991) of Law and Order, black actor Franklin Frome appears as a shock jock, and as Professor Crawley, an entomologist. In 2005, he published Nothing's Sacred, his autobiography. Black has appeared in brief segments on The Weather Channel since November 9, 2005. He appeared in an animated holiday special The Happy Elf in December 2005 as the voice of Norbert's tightly wound elf.

In the film Accepted, a film about high school graduates who fail to enroll in any, he played Dean Ben Lewis of the school "South Harmon Institute of Technology." He appeared in Man of the Year and Unaccompanied Minorities in 2006. Last Laugh '06, hosted by Black on Comedy Central, a 2006 film that aired on December 10, 2006.

During the third season of Cartoon Network's animated cartoon network series "Manobrain," Black appeared on "Manobrain." He was the maker of a diet pill that was stolen while he was in college. Dr. Byron, a college friend, attributed the robbery to his college buddy Dr. Jacques. I. Q. Hi, I'm not sure that the true robbery was Duck Dodgers. Manobrain was on a path of oblivion after the robbery.

In four episodes of the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and in the video game based on the film, he was the voice of the Deadly Duplicator.

In the My Gym Partner's "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey," Black featured oxpecker Ted. The character is depicted in the same way as his comedies, but without profanity. In addition, the bird's clothes, looks, and demeanor mimic his.

Mr. E/Ricky Owens also appeared in Scooby-Doo! Vic, a middle-aged man who was kidnapped by the Krang and mutated into a spider-like creature named "Spider-Bytez" by Michelangelo, was played by Mystery Incorporated and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

In the Pixar film Inside Out, Black voiced Anger.

In the SpongeBob SquarePants episodes "Goons on the Moon," "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas," he also appeared as Santa Claus, and in SpongeBob's Under Years, he's Under Years."

He appeared at the 6th annual Bonnaroo music festival, where he had appeared earlier this weekend for what was supposed to be a quick joke. A black member of the audience threw a bottle at Black, which shocked him. Black was furious and ordered the audience to boo the heckler before exiting the stage in disgust, while screaming profantions at the heckler. This act was featured in "YouTube vs. Porn," a Lewis Black's Root of All Evil episode.

Black hosted a benefit show at Springbrook High School, his alma mater, on June 29, 2007, bringing together 1,100 alumni, faculty, and students. He performed in his usual style, stopping at points to reflect how effective it was to use the word on that particular stage. He was given a Springbrook football jersey and chastised one instructor for giving him a B and causing him not to graduate first in his class.

Black went on a United Service Organizations trip in mid-December 2007 to assist the troops in Iraq and Kuwait. The last show at the US Naval Station in Rota, Spain, was on December 22nd. Black went on tour in 2008 to sell his book Me of Little Faith. Black performed "Let Them Eat Cake," a stand-up tour that was also on his comedy album Anticipation. Starting in January 2010, Black began a new tour titled "In God We Rust."

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