Rob Riggle

At 54 years old, Rob Riggle has this physical status:

Military career

Riggle, who aspired to become a naval aviator, joined the Marines in 1990, but decided against attending flight school to pursue a comedy career. Riggle, a member of the US Marine Corps Reserve, recalled his military service on The Daily Show, including serving as the show's "military analyst" and boasting that he could kill any other member of the show. In August 2007, he went to Iraq to cover The Daily Show and entertain troops under the USO's purview.

Riggle, a public affairs officer with a New York City-based unit, was stationed in Liberia, Kosovo, Albania, and Afghanistan. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (2); Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (2); and the National Defense Service Medal (2); and the NATO War on Terrorism Service Medal; the Humanitarian Service Medal; and the NATO Medal.

He resigned from the Marine Corps Reserve after 23 years of service on January 1, 2013.

Comedy career

Riggle has a long-running comedic relationship with comedian Rob Huebel, with whom he appears regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCBT) and in their former improvisational sketch comedy group Respecto Montalban. Probably the best known creation of the pair was their long running two-man show Kung Fu Grip, which they performed at UCBT and other comedy venues for many years, as well as in the 2004 HBO Comedy Arts Festival. They first appeared together in several of Comedy Central and VH1's "talking head" commentary shows such as Best Week Ever and A2Z around this time. They appeared in the Bravo network's 100 Worst Movie Moments special in 2004. The two acts brought them their first exposure to television viewers and made them their new favorites among VH1 viewers. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Riggle, Huebel, and the bulk of their castmates from Respecto Montalban appeared in sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

In the summer of 2004, the pair's increasing success earned them an interview on Saturday Night Live. They auditioned together, but only Riggle made the cut. Riggle joined Huebel and several of his other Respecto Montalban coworkers in Los Angeles to work on new projects after spending one season on Saturday Night Live from 2004 to 2005. The two met in early 2006 to create a half-hour comedy program, but it never made it to television.

Riggle became a regular reporter for The Daily Show in September 2006. Huebel (along with Respecto Montalban member Paul Scheer and stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari) began producing Human Giant, a sketch show for MTV around the same time. Riggle appeared in the show's sketches and in its 24-hour live marathon, which aired in May 2007. In the season one sketch "Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru," one of Riggle's most memorable appearances was as hired muscle Ham-Bone, who appeared alongside Aziz Ansari. In Doug Benson's documentary Super High Me, Riggle and Huebel will also be seen on stage at the UCBT.

Riggle's first appearance as a SNL cast member on the show's 30th-season premiere on October 2, 2004, was a featured actor during the 2004-2005 season. Larry the Cable Guy, Howard Dean, Rick Sanchez, Mark McGwire, and Toby Keith have all portrayed Larry the Cable Guy, Howard Dean, Howard Dean, Rick Sanchez, Mark McGwire, and Toby Keith. Leviticus, a loud, aggressive street preacher who only appeared on Robert De Niro's Weekend Update segment, was cut from the show (although another sketch starring Leviticus was scheduled to air on the episode hosted by Hilary Swank).

Riggle performed in a non-speaking role during season 29 of Fear Factor, where he played the father of one of the child contestants of "Breakfast in Bed" challenge, in which a child must eat the maggots off a plate of Eggs Benedict with the understanding that failure to do so resulted in his parent's divorce.

Riggle joined The Daily Show in September 2006 to replace Rob Corddry, the show's former actor, and his debut on September 20, 2006.

The Riggle's segment "Marines in Berkeley" in which he wore hippie regalia to mock University of California, Berkeley peace activists protesting a local Marine recruiting station was cited by the TV Guide.

Riggle, a 2008 Olympic film, went to China to tape sketches for The Daily Show, which culminated in the creation of the four-part special feature "Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon."

Riggle left The Daily Show on December 10, 2008, with John Oliver and Rory Albanese, one of the show's executive producers, on a show entitled An Evening (or Afternoon) starring John Oliver and Rory Albanese.

During a show interview with Will Ferrell on August 3, 2010, Riggle made a surprise appearance on The Daily Show on August 3, 2010. Riggle and Stewart were initially discussing Riggle's "lack of skills" and making other disparaging remarks about him, but Riggle then stepped on them and asked if they were talking about him. Ferrell and Stewart were apparently afraid of Riggle, despite the running joke that Stewart is afraid of Riggle.

Riggle's live comedy act was mostly experimental and sketch-based, but Riggle's desire to do something new emerged in 2006 and he created a stand-up act. Since being in various comedy clubs in New York City, he toured colleges and other comedy clubs, often with John Oliver and other Daily Show writers. When they shared an office at The Daily Show, John Oliver praised him for encouraging him to try stand-up.

On December 4, 2009, Riggle appeared on Comedy Central's Stand-up Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and taped a Comedy Central Presents special that aired on March 5, 2010.

In Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry and starring almost all of the Respecto Montalban troupe, Riggle played Eddie Reynolds. Riggle appeared on "Flab Four" later this year, a parody of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that ran for three episodes.

Riggle appeared on "Booze Cruise" episode of The Office as a boat captain and as an anti-euthanasia campaigner on Arrested Development in 2006. In Will Ferrell's comedy film Talladega Nights, he was also seen as a NASCAR announcer.

In late 2007, Riggle began appearing as a spokesperson in a string of Budweiser commercials. In 2008, he signed a talent holding contract with CBS and CBS Paraphrasedoutput, which included a development deal to produce and appear in a half-hour comedy series. He also appeared in Step Brothers, where he plays a hostile coworker of Brennan's (Will Ferrell). He had memorable supporting roles in the 2009 films The Hangover and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and Supporting roles in the 2010 comedies Going the Distance, Killers, and The Other Guys.

In 2009, Riggle appeared on CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried, portraying Mitch, Jay Mohr's brother from the Marines.

Riggle and comedian Paul Scheer developed and appeared in "Designated Driver," a collection of sketches for the first season of HBO comedy show Funny or Die Presents. In the show's second season in 2011, Riggle, Scheer and Rob Huebel also wrote and performed in a collection of sketches called "Death Hunt."

Riggle performed a Monday Night Football introduction and several short comedy bits for the Kansas City Chiefs, which will be broadcast at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, during the 2010–2011 NFL season. He was the lead in the 2011 CBS sitcom pilot Home Game, directed by Mark Wahlberg.

During Seattle Seahawks games, Riggle is seen in stadium monitors, causing fans to cheer.

In May 2011, Riggle appeared in a two-minute short film on funnyordie.com as the US Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden. He plays a humble US Navy Lieutenant (though the insignia on his uniform indicates the O-5 rank of a USN commander) who earns the Distinguished Service Cross and intoxicates immediately to a huge audience that he was bin Laden's assassination.

Riggle has appeared in "The President of the Navy" in the Adult Swim comedy-action film "NTSF:SUV:: He hosted the 2012 ESPY Awards on July 11, 2012.

In season two of the FX comedy series Wilfred, Riggle appeared as "Kevin Jesquire." He also played Gil Thorpe, the real-estate rival of Phil Dunphy (played by Ty Burrell) on the hit comedy series Modern Family, which continued on the show's 11th and final season in 2020.

In October 2013, he appeared in the Steel Panther's "Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World" music video.

Bobby Welch, a former professional tennis player, was supposed to star in Rob Lowe in the pilot for the single-camera comedy The Pro in 2014. However, the sequence was not compiled. In the 2015 film Dead Rising: Watch Tower, Riggle appeared as Frank West.

In August 2016, Riggle appeared at Rob Lowe's Comedy Central Roast.

Following other comedians including Norm Macdonald and Darrell Hammond, Riggle assumed Colonel Sanders' position in the KFC ad campaigns from September 2016.

In 2019, Joe Tessitore's miniature golf game show Holey Moley from 2019 to 2021 seasons.

Riggle took over the comedy skit and prognosticator sections previously performed by Frank Caliendo from 2003 to 2011. In 2020, Riggle did not return to the Fox NFL pre-game show.

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