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Lewis Black

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Lewis Black

Born Aug 30, 1948 · 77 years110 titles 70 movies · 40 TV
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Biography

Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivering his “Back in Black” commentary segment. When not on the road performing, he resides in Manhattan. He also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, N.C. He is currently the spokesman for Aruba Tourism, appearing in television ads that aired in late 2009 and 2010. He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lewis Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

劉易·布萊克 · لوئیس بلک

Born

Aug 30, 1948

Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

108

Acting credits

0

Directing

11

Writing

9

Other crew

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Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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