1. Robert Michael Schneider is an American actor and comedian.
38 Facts About Rob Schneider
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Rob Schneider rose to prominence as a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live, where he earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Rob Schneider has made guest appearances on numerous television shows and has pursued stand-up comedy throughout his career.
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Rob Schneider was born in San Francisco, California on October 31,1963, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica.
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Rob Schneider's parents were Pilar, a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider, a real estate broker.
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Rob Schneider's father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.
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Rob Schneider's maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married his grandfather, a white American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines.
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Rob Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982 and then attended San Francisco State University.
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Rob Schneider began his career doing stand-up comedy in San Francisco.
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Rob Schneider made his debut appearance on television in 1987, on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by comedian Dennis Miller.
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Rob Schneider played such roles as "Tiny Elvis", "Orgasm Guy", and Richard Laymer, the office worker beside the photocopier who addressed each of his fellow employees with an endless stream of annoying gossip.
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Rob Schneider is featured in the video release The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with colleagues Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Chris Farley.
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Rob Schneider appeared in a recurring part on the television series Coach.
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The latter movie was not well received by critics or moviegoers, and as a result, Rob Schneider won a 2005 Worst Actor Razzie Award for his role in the film.
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In 2006, Rob Schneider co-starred in the baseball-themed family comedy The Benchwarmers, along with his fellow SNL alumnus David Spade as well as Jon Heder.
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Rob Schneider is sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration.
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Rob Schneider has appeared in numerous comedies starring his SNL comrade Adam Sandler, including 1998's The Waterboy, 2010's Grown Ups, and 2020's Hubie Halloween.
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Rob Schneider narrated Sandler's 2002 animated movie Eight Crazy Nights, and voiced the part of a Chinese waiter.
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Rob Schneider played a variety of roles in the 2005 television special Back to Norm, starring another former SNL player Norm Macdonald, and appeared on episodes of the popular television shows Seinfeld and Ally McBeal.
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Rob Schneider hosted the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit '97 television special, and the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, and was a frequent guest on NBC's late-night variety program The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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Besides his efforts in movies and television, Rob Schneider released his first comedy album Registered Offender in July 2010.
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Rob Schneider revived his stand-up comedy career in 2010 with an international tour of theaters, clubs, and casinos.
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Rob Schneider appeared in the music video for country singer Neal McCoy's "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", as the song's title character.
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McCoy and Rob Schneider met while the two went on a USO tour in support of US troops two months after the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks.
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Rob Schneider is the official celebrity spokesperson for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau and the Ten Ren Tea company in Taipei.
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Rob Schneider was spokesperson for State Farm Insurance, but was dropped in 2014 due to his anti-vaccination views.
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In May 2016, Rob Schneider was featured as a special guest on the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps, alongside his wife Patricia, commentating over Midway's Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
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In 2021, Rob Schneider competed on season six of The Masked Singer as the wild card contestant "Hamster".
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When unmasked on the fifth week, Rob Schneider dedicated his performance of Luis Miguel's Sabor a Mi to Patricia and his daughters Miranda, Madeline, and Elle.
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In December 2023, Rob Schneider was hired to perform a standup show at an event organized by the Senate Working Group.
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Rob Schneider has a daughter with former model London King, musician Elle King, who was born in 1989.
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Rob Schneider once co-owned the DNA Lounge, a San Francisco nightclub.
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In July 2023, Schneider endorsed independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Rob Schneider was a headliner at the 2024 Moms for Liberty convention.
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In 2015, Rob Schneider actively opposed the passage of two California laws, California Assembly Bill 2109 and California Senate Bill 277, which both made childhood vaccination exemptions harder to obtain.
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In June 2024, Rob Schneider performed in Saskatchewan at a fundraising event for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation fundraiser, where he told jokes about vaccines, women, and transgender people.
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Rob Schneider was removed from the stage in the middle of his set by event organizers, who later apologized for his behaviour.
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In 2023, Rob Schneider made posts on social media criticizing the transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, calling her transgender identity "cultural appropriation".