Lewis Black
American comedian and actor · United States · On the map · Comedians · Born 1948 · age 78
He yells for a living - and made it an art form. Lewis Black turned exasperation into a signature: the finger-jabbing, vein-popping tirades that dissect everything from airport stupidity to political absurdity, all delivered at a controlled boil that somehow lands as catharsis.
Lewis Black is read about 563 times a day, in 22 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
People around Lewis
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Amy Poehler Also in Man of the Year and Inside Out
Mindy Kaling Also in Unaccompanied Minors and Inside Out
Phyllis Smith Also in Inside Out and Mind Candy
Whoopi Goldberg Also in Farce of the Penguins and Big Stone Gap
Diane Lane Also in Inside Out and Riley's First Date?
Kyle MacLachlan Also in Inside Out and Riley's First Date?
Flea Also in Inside Out and Riley's First Date?
Paula Pell Also in Riley's First Date? and Inside Out 2- JoAnne Astrow Also in Lewis Black: Black on Broadway (2004)
Woody Allen Directed Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Bob Saget Directed Farce of the Penguins (2007)
Jason Alexander Also in Jacob's Ladder and Farce of the Penguins
Frank Oz Also in Inside Out and Inside Out 2
Barry Levinson Directed Man of the Year (2006)
Christine Baranski Also in The Night We Never Met (1993)
Annabella Sciorra Also in The Night We Never Met and The Hard Way
Adrian Lyne Directed Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Rob Corddry Also in The Daily Show and Unaccompanied Minors
John Badham Directed The Hard Way (1991)
Andrew G. Vajna Produced Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Dave Goelz Also in Inside Out and Inside Out 2
Patrick Seitz Also in Inside Out and Riley's First Date?
Susan Batson Produced Falling for Grace (2006)
Sherry Lynn Also in Inside Out and Riley's First Date?
Also in Français
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252K subscribersIn their own words 4
, So that's how you wanna play it, old man? No dessert? Oh sure, we'll eat our dinner, right after you eat THIS!
What did you think I was gonna do, launch into some commercial for this? "Oh yeah, I couldn't be happier. When I got my Droid, it changed my life!
I believe that the way in which we should truly live is we should think about what we're going to do, and then not do it. Your boss comes in on Monday and goes, "Hey!
About this person
Born August 30, 1948, Black built his act on escalation - routines that spiral from observation into full-blown rants about history, politics, religion, whatever grates. In 1996 he started appearing on The Daily Show under Craig Kilborn, eventually anchoring the "Back in Black" segment that became a franchise. Comedy Central ranked him 51st among the greatest stand-ups in 2004; by 2008 he'd climbed to 5th in their Stand Up Showdown. In 2015 Pixar cast him as Anger in Inside Out, a role he reprised in the 2024 sequel - typecasting as validation. Offstage he's lent his name to the Aruba Tourism Authority since 2009, worked as an ACLU ambassador for voting rights since 2013, and joined the board of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum in 2022 after a decade as an honorary member. He splits time between Manhattan and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when he's not on the road doing what he does best: staying furious on everyone else's behalf.
