Rob Corddry

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Robert William Corddry (born February 4, 1971) is an American actor and comedian.

He is best known for his role as a reporter on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2002–2006) and his role in the film Hot Tub Time Machine.

He is the designer and star of Adult Swim's Children's Hospital, and he has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards.

He currently stars in the HBO series Ballers and the CBS comedy The Unicorn.

Early life and education

Corddry was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was the uncle of Robin (née Sullivan) and Steven Corddry, a Massachusetts Port Authority official. He is the older brother of actor Nate Corddry. Corddry and his brother are both Eagle Scouts from Troop 19, which is located in Weymouth.

Corddry attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1989–93), after graduating from Weymouth North High School (1989). Corddry intended to major in journalism but changed to English during an interview with the UMass Amherst alumni magazine, but instead turned to English. He devoted a lot of his attention to Drama classes and plays including Torch Song Trilogy, Ten Little Indians, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet, and Reckless. Corddry pledged the Theta chapter of Theta Chi fraternity at UMass.

Corddry immigrated to New York City in January 1994. His early paying jobs included serving as a security guard at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and assisting in the creation of menus for a Mexican restaurant. He eventually earned acting roles, including a year with the National Shakespeare Company. He studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, where he appeared regularly as a member of the sketch comedy group "The Naked Babies" (with John Ross Bowie, Brian Huskey, and Seth Morris), and he spent two years with the sketch comedy group "Third Rail Comedy." Corddry's first television appearances were on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade (1998-2000).

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Career

He accepted an audition for The Daily Show in Spring 2002. Boston, Massachusetts, which he considers to be his hometown, appeared in his Boston, Massachusetts essays for The Daily Show. Nate Corddry, his younger brother, made his first appearance as a Daily Show correspondent on October 4, 2005. Corddry's wife Sandra appeared with him on a Daily Show segment on January 12, 2006, the first child, Sloane Sullivan Corddry, was born. Corddry hosted an episode of The Daily Show on February 9, 2006 due to Jon Stewart's absence (jokingly because the show's regular host was "in the store," but in fact because of Stewart's second child's birth).

Corddry said on August 15, 2006, "I've got like a week and a half left, so all bets are off," Stewart announced on August 21, 2006, Corddry's last day on The Daily Show would be August 24, 2006. Corddry appeared on numerous occasions this week, including one reporting from inside a toilet bowl on board an aircraft transporting John Mark Karr and another dressed up in a 1970s look; Stewart said, "It's his last week, and we're trying to come up with horrific things for him to do."

Corddry performed a self-produced tribute to his four years on the program on August 24, ending with a "poop joke," Stewart said.

Corddry cites Stewart as a major influence on his comedy, lauding Stewart for showing him how to narrow focus on a subject in order to find the humor in it, and claims that his The Daily Show pedigree earned him the right to make Children's Hospital.

Corddry worked on after leaving The Daily Show was The Winner, a 2007 television series.

Corddry has since appeared on the show as both a visitor and as a reporter.

In Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2004) and Mac, Ben Stiller's character's best friend in The Heartbreak Kid, Corddry played the title character. He has appeared in Old School (2003, credited as Robert Corddry), Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Insecure to Launch and The Ten.

He appeared in both Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay as Ron Fox, a neurotic and racial agent with the US Department of Homeland Security in Washington, and also in What Happens in Vegas. In 2010, he co-starred in the John Cusack film Hot Tub Time Machine, and in 2013 he co-starred in Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies as the zombie M.

On June 12, 2006, Corddry hosted the tenth annual Webby Awards ceremony. He appeared in the Fox mid-season comedy The Winner from March 4, 2007 to the series's cancellation. To Stuff Magazine, he compared the performance to "kind of like a fucked-up Wonder Years."

Corddry appears in "The Seder" by Curb Your Enthusiasm as a sex criminal who moves into Larry David's neighborhood. Moses Taylor, an actor who plays "Frank Wrench," an obsessive by-the-books detective on Fox's Wrench, appeared in two episodes of Fox's Arrested Development as Moses Taylor, an obsessive by-the-books investigator on a fictional television show Wrench. On Cartoon Network's Weighty Decisions, Corddry has also done some voice work as Gordon the animated Devil (alongside fellow Daily Show reporter Ed Helms). He appeared in a commercial for Cartoon Network's Ed Edd n Eddy collection and a 2001 promotional ad as an anger management specialist to the Townsville Villains of the cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls.

Corddry's voice appears in the History Channel's World War II in HD. Roscoe "Rockie" Blunt, a World War II soldier and jazz guitarist, is the voice of World War II soldier and jazz guitarist Roscoe "Rockie" Blunt.

Corddry wrote, directed, and appeared in The WB's web series Children's Hospital on its own website www.theWB.com. Turner's Adult Swim picked up the series and launched new episodes on August 22, 2010, after it fell through with Comedy Central.

Clark Duke, a fellow cast member of Hot Tub Time Machine, co-guest host of WWE Raw on March 29, 2010.

Corddry was instrumental in the proliferating Justin Halpern's Twitter account Shit My Dad Says. Rob, a young follower of Halpern's father's quotes, posted a link to Shit My Dad, which "jump-started" the phenomenon, helping to expose Halpern's Twitter stream to a larger audience.

Corddry has appeared in three commercials for the Holiday Inn both 2010 and 2011. Alan Connor, an old friend of Jeff Winger who is also a lawyer, appeared in three episodes of Community as a lawyer.

Corddry appeared on episode 29 of the podcast Back to Work, produced by the 5by5 podcast network, where he was questioned by Merlin Mann about his writing and acting experience in August.

Corddry took up a recurring role on the third season of Happy Endings, playing "The Car Czar," Jane's new boss at the dealership. Buddy, the boorish owner of the bar where Kate and BJ work as well as BJ's on-and-off boyfriend, appeared on the short-lived FOX series Ben and Kate as Buddy, the bar's boorish owner of the bar where Kate and BJ work.

Rob appeared on The Jason Ellis Show in October 2013 as a regular visitor. Corddry accepted an invitation to host his own show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio's soon-to-become "Jason Ellis Channel," a talk show that was exclusive to SiriusXm Satellite Radio.

He appeared in Ballers, the HBO comedy-drama series, from 2015 to 2019.

He was the focus of Jonathan Goldstein's podcast Heavyweight episode titled Rob.

Corddry will be the host of the revived Top Gear America, which debuted on Motor Trend in January 2021, on December 3, 2019.

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