Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts was born on March 23,1972 and is an American comedian, actor, beatboxer, and musician.
29 Facts About Reggie Watts
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Reggie Watts's improvised musical sets are created using only his voice, a keyboard, and a looping machine.
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Reggie Watts refers to himself as a "disinformationist" who aims to disorient his audience in a comedic fashion.
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From 2015 to 2023, Reggie Watts led the house band for The Late Late Show with James Corden.
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Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Reggie Watts was born in Stuttgart on March 23,1972, the son of French mother Christiane and African-American father Charles Alphonso Reggie Watts.
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Reggie Watts's father was an officer in the Air Force, leading the family to live in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain before returning to the US and settling in Great Falls, Montana, where Watts was raised; he graduated from Great Falls High School in 1990.
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Reggie Watts began piano and violin lessons at the age of five, with his love of music beginning as a young child when he saw Ray Charles play the piano on television.
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Reggie Watts moved to Seattle at the age of 18 to study music, attending the Art Institute of Seattle before studying jazz at Cornish College of the Arts.
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In 1996, Reggie Watts became the frontman for the band Maktub.
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Reggie Watts began using the Line 6 in live shows with Maktub to replicate the duplicate harmonies from the recorded material.
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Reggie Watts experimented with improvising entire songs in solo acts with the Line 6, while trying to sound like Tom Waits, playing initial gigs at small Seattle venues and artist bungalows.
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In 2004, after recording five albums over eight years, Reggie Watts moved to the Lower East Side of New York City.
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Reggie Watts shot comedic shorts for Superdeluxe, Vimeo, and CollegeHumor.
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In 2008, Reggie Watts recorded a new special entitled Disinformation, which features his performance at the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater.
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Reggie Watts appeared in the independent film Steel of Fire Warriors 2010 AD as a Mutantzoid Underling and on an episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as making other various television appearances.
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In 2009, Reggie Watts recorded his first solo EP, Pot Cookies.
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Reggie Watts began appearing on the PBS Kids' children's program The Electric Company.
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Reggie Watts performed in his first solo short film Watts Does London and made a small appearance on Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues.
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Reggie Watts then did voice work for an episode of Adult Swim's The Venture Bros.
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Reggie Watts toured in support of Devo in a fall 2009 tour.
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In 2013, On the Boards recorded a new Reggie Watts special entitled Transition, which played at various arts festivals including the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater; it was winner of the MAP Fund Award and Creative Capital award.
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In 2014, Reggie Watts contributed the outro vocal on "Holy City" and beatbox on the title track of the Joan As Police Woman album The Classic.
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Reggie Watts appeared as the last act in the season 4 premiere of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show where he told some jokes and performed a song.
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Reggie Watts served as the bandleader and announcer for The Late Late Show with James Corden for its entire run from 2015 to 2023.
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Reggie Watts described his role on the show as "a mix of Paul Shaffer and Andy Richter".
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Reggie Watts utilizes improvisation in his solo shows, which consist of him singing and rapping both with words and with sound poetry, accompanying himself by either beatboxing, performing vocal basslines into a loop machine, or simply by playing the keyboard.
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Reggie Watts's act showcases his trademark style of stand-up comedy, consisting of him rapidly alternating between topics of discussion in both rational and nonsensical manners, making random sounds and gibberish noises, and speaking in other accents and languages at unexpected times, all with the intent of playfully and comically disorienting his audiences.
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Reggie Watts is the winner of the 2005 Malcolm Hardee "Oy Oy" Award, the 2006 Andy Kaufman Comedy Award, and the 2006 Seattle Mayor's Arts Award.
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Reggie Watts was awarded the 2008 MAP Fund and the 2009 Creative Capitol Grant for the performing arts, and won the 2009 ECNY Award for Best Musical Comedy Act.