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American comedian and actor
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Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand up comedian and actor. His comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, and cultural trends. 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. 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. In 2015, he appeared as the voice of Anger in the Pixar film Inside Out, a role he will reprise in the 2024 sequel, Inside Out 2. Lewis Black is also a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority, appearing in television ads that first aired in late 2009 and 2010. He has served as an "ambassador for voting rights" for the American Civil Liberties Union since 2013. When not on the road performing, Black resides in Manhattan, but also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Lewis Black was born on August 30, 1948, in Washington, D. C., the elder son of Jeannette Black (née Kaplan; 1918 2022), a teacher, and Samuel Black (1918–2019), an artist and mechanical engineer. He had a younger brother, Ronald, who died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 47. He is Jewish and was raised in a middle class Jewish family in the Burnt Mills neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland. His grandparents emigrated from the Russian Empire, including Chornyi Ostriv in Ukraine and Białystok in Poland and his paternal grandfather was originally named Leib Blech, later changed to Louis Black. Black graduated from Springbrook High School in 1966. Black 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. 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. There, he studied playwriting and was a brother of Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity and a member of Student Congress. After graduating in 1970, Black moved to Colorado Springs with a group of performers based in Chapel Hill, purchased an old log cabin theater and attempted to establish a theatre company. Calling themselves the Homestead Arts Theatre, the group performed regionally at parks, schools, and prisons, but were unable to open the theatre due to code violations. He eventually returned to Washington where he worked at the Appalachian Regional Commission, wrote plays, and performed stand up comedy at the Brickskeller in Dupont Circle. Black's career began in theater as a playwright; however, he has stated that he was always doing stand up "on the side."

In 1994, Black appeared on A&E's An Evening at the Improv. 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. In 2004 and 2005, Black hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival. In 2004, he had an HBO stand up special titled Black on Broadway. Black hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '07, which aired on December 2, 2007, along with Dave Attell and D. L. Hughley. In 2006, Black performed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C. 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. Black received a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Comedy Album" for his album The Carnegie Hall Performance. He hosted the Comedy Central television series The Root of All Evil in 2008. 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. 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. In 2009, Black filmed two shows at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan. These were the basis for the concert film Stark Raving Black, which appeared in theaters for a limited time in October, and was released on video the next year. 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, Minnesota. 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 was released on DVD and Blu ray on September 11, 2011. 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. In October 2020, Black released his fourteenth stand up special, Thanks for Risking Your Life, live at the Four Winds New Buffalo casino. The special was filmed at the start of the COVID 19 lockdown and reflects that in material.

Black appeared in episode 25 "Aria" (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. 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.

Black was the voice of "Manobrain" during the third season of the Cartoon Network series Duck Dodgers. 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. He provided the voice of the Deadly Duplicator in four episodes of the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and 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 resemble his. He also voiced Mr. E/Ricky Owens in Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated and for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles played a middle aged man named Vic who is kidnapped by the Kraang and mutated into a spider like monster called "Spider Bytez" by Michelangelo. Black voiced Anger in the Pixar film Inside Out. He also guest starred as the voice of Santa Claus in the SpongeBob SquarePants episodes "Goons on the Moon", "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas" and would reprise the role in spinoff series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.

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. simply". 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 United Service Organizations trip to support the troops in Iraq and Kuwait. The last show was on December 22 at the U. S Naval Station in Rota, Spain. 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 2000, Black and fellow comedian Jim Norton were arrested for their involvement with "The Naked Teen Voyeur Bus", a specially designed bus with acrylic glass walls containing numerous 18 and 19 year old topless women. This bus was driven around Manhattan while reports about it were broadcast on the Opie and Anthony radio show.

Year Title Role Notes 1990–1991 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Bernie 5 episodes 1991 Law & Order Director Franklin Frome Season 2, Episode 3: "Aria"1994 A&E's An Evening at the Improv Himself Season 15, Episode 17 1996–present The Daily Show Commentator "Back in Black" segment1997Homicide: Life on the Street Laslo "Punchy" DeleonEpisode: "Deception"1997Mad About You The Pizza SliceSeason 6, Episode 7: "Le Sex Show"2003The Brak Show Brain Slug / Zorak2 episodes 2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit BJ Cameron Episode: "Obscene" 2005Duck Dodgers Manobrain (voice) Episode: "A Lame Duck Mind" 2005 The Happy Elf Norbert (voice) TV movie 2005–2007 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law The Deadly Duplicator, Elliott (voices) four episodes 2006 Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed Himself HBO comedy special 2007 My Gym Partner's a Monkey Ted (voice) Episode 36: "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey" 2008 Lewis Black's Root of All Evil Himself 2009 The Big Bang Theory Professor Crawley Season 3, Episode 2: "The Jiminy Conjecture" 2010 Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated Mr. E/Adult Ricky Owens (voice) 2011 Robotomy Gore Ax (voice) Episode: "Mean Green" 2011 The Penguins of Madagascar Dale (voice) Episode: "Arch Enemy/The Big S. T. A. N. K." 2012–2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Spider Bytez / Vic (voice) two episodes 2016 Madoff Ezra Merkin Miniseries 2016 Crisis in Six Scenes Al 2 episodes 2017 Be Cool, Scooby Doo! Mayor Stoughton (voice) Episode: "World of Witchcraft" 2017 The President Show Trump's Psyche Episode: "Joe Cirincione"2018–2021 SpongeBob SquarePants Santa Claus (voice) 2 episodes, guest voice2019 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Ragely J. Snarlingtooth (voice) Episode: "The Angry Abnormal Atrocities of the Astute Animal Aggressors"2021 Devil May Care Atheist Steve (voice) Episode: "The Atheist"2021 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years Santa Claus (voice) Episode: "The Ho! Ho! Horror! ", guest voice2023The Daily ShowHimself (Guest Host)Delayed due to Writers' Strike (Originally for Week of June 20)

Year Title Role 2008 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law The Deadly Duplicator 2015 Disney Infinity 3.0 Anger