Lewis Black Biography, Age, Networth, Specials, Tours, Relationship, Books, Films

Lewis Black Biography

Lewis Black born Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004. Also, he was voted 5th in Comedy Central’s Stand Up Showdown in 2008 and 11th in 2010. He is best known for his angry comedic demeanor  in which most often having a mental breakdown. His comedy routines often escalate into  rants about the current affairs, history, politics, religion, or any other cultural trends. He makes regular appearances on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and hosts the Comedy Central series ‘Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil‘.
He is also a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority and in 2013 he was voted as “ambassador for voting rights” for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Lewis Black Age | Birthday

Lewis was born August 30, 1948 in Washington, D.C and is 70 years old in 2018.

Lewis Black Parents

Black was born to his father Mr. Sam Black, an artist and mechanical engineer  and mother Jeannette, a teacher,in Washington, D.C.  He was raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Silver Spring, Maryland, graduating from Springbrook High School in 1966.

Lewis Black Young| Early Career

Black’s career began as a playwright. From 1981 to 1989, 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 . He also collaborated with Rusty Magee,writing the musical The Czar of Rock and Roll, which premiered at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 1990. Black’s stand-up comedy began as an opening act for the plays; he was also the master of ceremonies. Black left the theatre and began working as a comedian, as well as finding bit parts in television and films after a change in management while at the theatre.

Lewis Black Comedy Style

His techniques include sarcasm, hyperbole, profanity, shouting and his trademark angry finger-shaking, which bring emphasis to his topics of discussion. He once described his humor as “being on the Titanic every single day and being the only person who knows what is going to happen.”

Black has described his political affiliation as: “I’m a socialist, so that puts me totally outside any concept…the Canadians get it. But seriously, most people don’t get it. The idea of capping people’s income just scares people. ‘Oh, you’re taking money from the rich.’ Ooh, what a horrifying thing. These people really need $200 million.

Lewis Black Stand-up comedy | Comedy Central Presents

In 1998, Black starred in his first comedy special on the series Comedy Central Presents. He starred in two additional episodes of the series in 2000 and 2002. He starred in another special for the network in 2002, titled Taxed Beyond Belief.

Lewis Black Net Worth

Lewis networth is estimated to be $2 million dollars with his income streaming from the diversity of his professions from being a playwright, stand up comedian and actor.

Lewis Black Religion

Lewis Black was born and raised in a Jewish family and is well versed with the torah. He has previously critisised the Christian interpretation of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the introduction of New Testament.

Lewis Black The Root of All Evil

In 2008,Black hosted the Comedy Central television series The Root of All Evil . The show pitted two people or pop-culture topics against each other as a panel of comedians argued, in the style of a court trial, which is more evil, e.g., “Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney” and “Internet Porn vs. YouTube”. After hearing arguments from both sides, Black, acting as judge, made the final decision as to which is more evil.

In 2008, Black hosted History of the Joke with Lewis Black, a 2-hour comedy-documentary on The History Channel.

Lewis Black Stand-Up Month

Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Month” in 2008 featured specials originally presented on HBO by Black, along with programs featuring Dane Cook and Chris Rock. That year, as part of Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Month”, Black’s routine finished at #5 on “Stand-Up Showdown 2008”, a viewer-based countdown of the top Comedy Central Presents routine.

Lewis Black Specials

At the end of 2009, Black returned to the History Channel to host Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black, in which he discussed the year-end pressures of Thanksgiving, Channukah, Christmas, and New Year’s.

In 2011, Black filmed two shows at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN. The shows were used for Black’s comedy special “In God We Rust”. The special premiered on Epix HD.

An extended and uncensored version of the special broadcast on Epix HD was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11, 2011.

Lewis Black Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata

In August 2013, Black recorded his ninth stand-up special Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata. Deadline reported that Black and the company that was releasing the stand-up special, Image Entertainment, would later air it in the form of pay-per-view and VOD, making it the first comedy special to air simultaneously on all cable, satellite and telco platforms

Lewis Black On Broadway

Lewis hosted a HBO stand-up special titled Black on Broadway.in 2014. Black hosted Comedy Central’s Last Laugh ’07, which aired on December 2, 2007 along with Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley.

Lewis Black Red, White, and Screwed

Black performed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.in 2006, for an HBO special, Red, White, and Screwed. It aired in June and a DVD was released in October. When explaining his choice of venue, Black said that “some asshole” was paid to count the number of times the word “fuck” was said in his previous HBO special, Black On Broadway, and that the original location, the Kennedy Center, wanted him to cut back on its use. Black was told the number was 42, when actually it was approximately 78.

Lewis Black Film and television appearances

Black appeared in episode 25 “Aria” in 1991 of Law and Order as porn director Franklin Frome, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode “Obscene” (2004) as a shock jock, and in The Big Bang Theory episode “The Jiminy Conjecture” (2009) as Professor Crawley, an entomologist. He also released his autobiography, Nothing’s Sacred, in 2005. Since November 9, 2005, Black has been making appearances in small segments on The Weather Channel. In December 2005, he appeared in an animated holiday special The Happy Elf, as the voice of the extremely tightly wound elf, Norbert.

Lewis Black Film Accepted

In the film Accepted, a film about high school graduates who create a college when they fail to get accepted into any, he played Dean Ben Lewis of the school “South Harmon Institute of Technology”. He also appeared in the 2006 films Man of the Year and Unaccompanied Minors. Black hosted Comedy Central’s Last Laugh ’06, which aired on December 10, 2006.

Lewis Black  Voice acting

Black voiced “Manobrain” during the third season of the Cartoon Network series “Duck Dodgers”. From the script, he was the inventor of a diet pill which was stolen while he was in college. He blamed the theft on his college friend Dr. I. Q. Hi, not realizing that the actual thief was Duck Dodgers. The theft set Manobrain on the path of evil.

Black provided the voice of the Deadly Duplicator in four episodes of the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Lawvas well as in the video game based on the show.

Black provided the voice of oxpecker Ted in the My Gym Partner’s a Monkey episode, “Hornbill and Ted’s Bogus Journey”. The character is portrayed in the same fashion as his comedy shows, though without profanity. In addition, the bird’s clothes, looks, and mannerisms match those of himself. He also voiced Mr. E/Ricky Owens in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a middle-aged man named Vic who is kidnapped by the Krang and mutated into a spider-like monster called “Spider-Bytez” by Michelangelo. He also voiced Anger in the Pixar film Inside Out. He also guest starred as the voice of Santa Claus in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, “Goons on the Moon.

Lewis Black Tickets |Lewis Black Tour Dates | Atlanta | Boston| Chicago |Lewis Black Tour

On June 18, 2007, he sat in with Southern rock/Jam band Gov’t Mule at the 6th annual Bonnaroo music festival, where he had performed earlier that weekend, for what was to be a quick joke. A member of the audience threw a bottle at Black, which struck him. Black was upset and he encouraged the audience to boo the heckler before leaving the stage in disgust, while shouting obscenities at the heckler. This act was seen in an episode of Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil titled “YouTube vs. Porn”.

On June 29, 2007, Black gave a benefit show at Springbrook High School, his alma mater, in the school’s auditorium for 1,100 alumni, faculty, and students. He performed in his usual style, stopping at points to remark how good it felt to use that language on that particular stage. At the end of the show he was given a Springbrook football jersey, and cursed at one teacher for giving him a B and causing him not to graduate first in his class.

In mid-December 2007, Black went with Robin Williams, Kid Rock, Lance Armstrong and Rachel Smith, Miss USA 2007, on a USO trip to support the troops in Iraq and Kuwait. The last show was on 22 December at the U.S Naval Station in Rota, Spain.

Black helped create the annual Carolina Comedy Festival at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 2008, Black went on tour to promote his book Me of Little Faith. Black did a stand-up tour called “Let Them Eat Cake”, with material from that tour being featured on his comedy album Anticipation.

Beginning in January 2010, Black embarked on a new tour called “In God We Rust”.

In 2016 Lewis Black  hosted The Emperor’s New Clothes , going later that year to hostThe Naked Truth tour.

In 2018, Lewis hosted The Joke’s On Us Tour.

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Lewis Black The Naked Teen Voyeur Bus

Lewis Black Awards

Black received a 2007 Grammy award for “Best Comedy Album” for his album The Carnegie Hall Performance 

In 2004 and 2005, Black hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival.

Lewis Black Published Books

• Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
• Nothing’s Sacred (audio book) (2006)
• Nothing’s Sacred (softcover version) (2007)
• Me of Little Faith (2008) (New York: Riverhead Books – Penguin Group) 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-59448-994-5.
• Me of Little Faith (paperback version with added content) (2009)
• I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas (2010)

Lewis Black Media releases

CDs

• The White Album (2000)
• Revolver (EP) (2002)
• The End of the Universe (2002)
• Rules of Enragement (2003)
• Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues (2005)
• The Carnegie Hall Performance (2006)
• Anticipation (2008)
• Stark Raving Black (2010)
• The Prophet (2011, unreleased album from 1991)
• In God We Rust (2012)
• Old Yeller (Live at the Borgata) (2013)
• The Rant is Due (2017)
• Black to the Future (2017)

Lewis Black DVDs

• Unleashed (compilation of his four Comedy Central specials plus his appearances on The Daily Show: Indecision 2000) (2002)
• Black on Broadway (2003 HBO Special) (2004)
• A Pair of Lewis Black Shorts (Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick Story and The Gynecologists) (2006)
• Red, White, and Screwed (2006 HBO Special)
• History of the Joke with Lewis Black (2008 History Channel special)
• Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black (2009 History Channel special)
• Stark Raving Black (2009)
• In God We Rust (2012 Epix Special)
• Lewis Black: Old Yeller – Live At the Borgata In Atlantic City (2013)
• Black to the Future (2017)

Lewis Black Movies And Tv Shows

Lewis Black Movies