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Profile of Lewis Black
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30th August 1948 |
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Silver Spring, Maryland, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Lewis Black (born August 30, 1948) is a Jewish-American stand-up comedian, author, and playwright. He is best known for his regular appearances on Comedy Central's The Daily Show delivering his "Back in Black" commentaries. In 2004, he had an HBO stand-up special entitled Black on Broadway, in addition to three previous Comedy Central Presents Specials. He currently lives in New York City.
Background
Lewis Niles Black was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was exposed to playwriting as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a Masters in Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama in 1977. Originally, his career was in the theater as a playwright. He has written over forty plays besides serving as the playwright in residence and associate artistic director of a Hell's Kitchen theater bar and restaurant on 42nd Street in New York City from 1981 to 1989. Black's stand-up comedy began as an opening act for the plays as 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.
One of his comedic schticks is to get mind blowingly angry about something and yell and rant and wiggle his fingers about it for extended periods of time. It almost seems like he'll have a heart attack right then and there.
Black has also hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival for the three years the awards have been presented.
Published works
CD and DVD releases
- The White Album (2000)
- End of the Universe (2002)
- Unleashed DVD (3 Shows from Comedy Central + Extras) (2002)
- Rules of Enragement (2003)
- Black On Broadway DVD (2003 HBO Special) (2004)
- Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues (2005)
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