39 Facts About Lewis Black

Lewis Niles Black was born on August 30,1948 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Lewis Black 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.

Lewis Black 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.

Lewis Black is a spokesman for the Aruba Tourism Authority, appearing in television ads that first aired in late 2009 and 2010.

Lewis Black has served as an "ambassador for voting rights" for the American Civil Liberties Union since 2013.

Lewis Black had been an honorary member of the board for about 10 years before that.

Lewis Black was born on August 30,1948, in Washington, DC, the elder son of Jeannette Black, a teacher, and Samuel Black, an artist and mechanical engineer.

Lewis Black had a younger brother, Ronald, who died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 47.

Lewis Black is Jewish and was raised in a middle-class Jewish family in the Burnt Mills neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland.

Lewis Black eventually returned to Washington where he worked at the Appalachian Regional Commission, wrote plays, and performed stand-up comedy at the Brickskeler in Dupont Circle.

Lewis Black earned an MFA degree at the Yale School of Drama in 1977, and was married for ten months when he was 26 years old.

Also with Rusty Magee, Lewis Black wrote the musical The Czar of Rock and Roll, which premiered at Houston's Alley Theatre in 1990.

In 1998, Lewis Black starred in his first comedy special on the series Comedy Central Presents.

Lewis Black starred in two additional episodes of the series in 2000 and 2002.

Lewis Black starred in another special for the network in 2002, titled Taxed Beyond Belief.

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

In 2006, Lewis Black performed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC for an HBO special, Red, White, and Screwed.

Lewis Black was told the number was 42, when actually it was approximately 78.

Lewis Black received a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Comedy Album" for his album The Carnegie Hall Performance.

Lewis Black hosted the Comedy Central television series The Root of All Evil in 2008.

In 2009, Lewis Black filmed two shows at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan.

In 2011, Lewis Black filmed two shows at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In October 2020, Lewis Black released his fourteenth stand-up special, Thanks for Risking Your Life, live at the Four Winds New Buffalo casino.

Since November 9,2005, Lewis Black has been making appearances in small segments on The Weather Channel.

Lewis Black appeared in the 2006 films Man of the Year and Unaccompanied Minors.

Lewis Black hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '06, which aired on December 10,2006.

Lewis Black was the voice of "Manobrain" during the third season of the Cartoon Network series Duck Dodgers.

Lewis Black was the inventor of a diet pill which was stolen while he was in college.

Lewis Black 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.

Lewis Black provided the voice of oxpecker Ted in the My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode, "Hornbill and Ted's Bogus Journey".

Lewis Black voiced Anger in the Pixar films Inside Out and Inside Out 2.

Lewis Black 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.

Lewis Black was upset and he encouraged the audience to boo the heckler before leaving the stage in disgust, while shouting obscenities at the heckler.

On June 29,2007, Lewis Black gave a benefit show at Springbrook High School, his alma mater, in the school's auditorium for 1,100 alumni, faculty, and students.

Lewis Black performed in his usual style, stopping at points to remark how good it felt to use that language on that particular stage.

In mid-December 2007, Lewis 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.

In 2008, Lewis Black went on tour to promote his book Me of Little Faith.

Lewis Black did a stand-up tour called "Let Them Eat Cake", with material from that tour being featured on his comedy album Anticipation.

Lewis Black appeared on The Daily Show the following night where he stated he was exercising his constitutional rights.