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

Black's stand-up comedy began as an opening act for the plays he was also the master of ceremonies. Also with Rusty Magee, Black wrote the musical The Czar of Rock and Roll, which premiered at Houston's Alley Theatre in 1990. īlack's career began in theater as a playwright however, he has stated that he was always doing stand-up 'on the side.' 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 from 1981 to 1989. 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. After graduating in 1970, he returned to Washington, where he worked at the Appalachian Regional Commission, wrote plays, and performed stand-up comedy at the Brickskeller in Dupont Circle. There, he studied playwriting and was a brother of Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity and a member of Student Congress. 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. īlack 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. Black graduated from Springbrook High School in 1966. His grandparents emigrated from the Russian Empire, including Chornyi Ostriv and Białystok, and his paternal grandfather was originally named Leib Blech, later changed to Louis Black. He was raised in a middle-class Jewish family in the Burnt Mills neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. He has a younger brother, Ronald, who died in 1997 at the age of 47 after a battle with cancer. Lewis Black was born on August 30, 1948, in Washington, D.C., the elder son of Jeannette Black (née Kaplan born 1918), a teacher, and Samuel Black (1918–2019), an artist and mechanical engineer.

When not on the road performing, Black resides in Manhattan, but also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has served as an 'ambassador for voting rights' for the American Civil Liberties Union since 2013. Lewis Black is also a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority, appearing in television ads that first aired in late 20.

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.

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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. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, or any other cultural trends, which led him to embody Anger itself in 2015's Pixar film, Inside Out. Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American actor and stand-up comedian.