Rob Schneider

This article is about the American actor and comedian. For the Louisiana musician, see Robert Schneider. For the Texas musician, see Bob Schneider.

Rob Schneider

Schneider performing in November 2001.
Born Robert Michael Schneider
(1963-10-31) October 31, 1963
San Francisco, California, United States
Occupation Actor, comedian, director, screenwriter
Years active 1987–present
Political party Republican[1]
Spouse(s) London King (m. 1988; div. 1990)
Helena Schneider (m. 2002; div. 2005)
Patricia Azarcoya Arce (m. 2011)
Children 3 (Elle King)
Relatives John Schneider (brother)
Website www.robschneider.com

Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, he went on to a successful career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Hot Chick, The Benchwarmers, and Grown Ups.

Early life

Schneider was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. His parents are Pilar (née Monroe), a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider, a real estate broker.[2] His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.[3] 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.[4][5] His mixed background is a common theme in his comedy acts. His older brother, John, is a producer. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982.

Career

Early career

Schneider started his stand-up comedy career while still in high school, opening for San Francisco favorites Head On, a band managed by his older brother John. After high school, he played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and The Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

Saturday Night Live

Schneider was hired at Saturday Night Live in 1988. Schneider swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member. From 1990 to 1994 at SNL, he played such roles as "Tiny Elvis" and "Orgasm Guy". His best known recurring character was Richard Laymer, an office worker whose desk was stuck beside the photocopier, and who addressed each of his fellow employees with an endless stream of annoying nicknames. 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.

Recurring SNL characters

Feature films, sitcoms, and endorsements

After leaving SNL, Schneider played supporting roles in a series of movies including Surf Ninjas, Judge Dredd, The Beverly Hillbillies, Demolition Man and Down Periscope. He also appeared in a recurring part on the TV series Coach. In 1996, he co-starred in the NBC sit-com Men Behaving Badly, an American take on the hit British series of the same name. The U.S. version ran for two seasons.

Schneider starred in the 1999 feature film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a tale of a fish-tank cleaner who incurs a massive debt and is forced to become a "man-whore." This was followed by The Animal, about a man given animal powers by a mad scientist; The Hot Chick, wherein the mind of a petty thief played by Schneider is mystically switched into the body of a pretty, but mean-spirited high school cheerleader (Rachel McAdams); and the sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. The latter movie was not well received by critics or moviegoers, and as a result, Schneider won a 2005 Worst Actor Razzie Award for his role in the film.[7]

In 2006, Schneider co-starred in the baseball-themed family comedy The Benchwarmers, along with his fellow SNL alumnus David Spade as well as Jon Heder. Other film roles include Schneider's appearance with Jim Henson's Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space, and his role as a San Francisco hobo in the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days.

Schneider's directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, was released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, with a U.S. release in early 2009. In the film, he starred as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams. He is sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration.

Schneider has also appeared in numerous comedies starring his SNL comrade Adam Sandler, most recently on 2010s Grown Ups. The comedic characters Schneider plays in these films include an overly enthusiastic Cajun man who proclaims the catch-phrase, "You can do it!"; an amiable Middle Eastern delivery boy; a prison inmate; and Sandler's one-eyed Hawaiian sidekick, Ula. Schneider has uttered the line "You can do it!" as a running gag in Sandler's films The Waterboy, Little Nicky, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, and Bedtime Stories, as well as in a deleted scene from Click. (A sample of Schneider saying the phrase also turns up in the song "Original Prankster" by The Offspring.) Returning the favor, Sandler appeared in a cameo to spout the same line in Schneider's The Animal, wherein, as a reference, Adam Sandler utters: "Yeah! You can do it!" Sandler also showed up briefly in Schneider's The Hot Chick. Schneider narrated Sandler's 2002 animated movie Eight Crazy Nights, and voiced the part of a Chinese waiter. Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Schneider played a variety of roles in the 2005 TV special Back to Norm, starring another former SNL player Norm Macdonald, and appeared on episodes of the popular TV shows Seinfeld and Ally McBeal. Schneider hosted the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit '97 TV special, and the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, and is a frequent guest on NBC's late-night variety program The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (In Schneider's appearance with Leno on the July 24, 2007 episode of The Tonight Show, he showed up in drag as actress Lindsay Lohan after Lohan cancelled following a controversial arrest for driving under the influence.[8]

Besides his efforts in movies and television, Schneider released his first comedy album Registered Offender in July 2010. Registered Offender is composed of audio sketches and songs, with Schneider himself doing all of the character voices on the recording. He also revived his stand-up comedy career in 2010 with an international tour of theaters, clubs and casinos.

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. McCoy and Schneider met while the two went on a USO tour in support of U.S. troops two months after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Schneider starred as the title character in the CBS-TV situation comedy Rob, which was loosely based on his real life. The series was canceled by CBS in May 2012. In 2015, he produced, directed and starred in Real Rob, a sitcom mini-series following his life and including his real-life wife Patricia and daughter Miranda. The series was released on Netflix and ran for 8 episodes.[9][10]

Schneider is the official celebrity spokesperson for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau and the Ten Ren Tea company in Taipei.[11]

In May 2016, Schneider was featured as a special guest on the Let's Play webseries Game Grumps, commentating over Midway's Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

Personal life

Schneider has a daughter with former model London King, musician Elle King, who was born in 1989.[12][13]

In 1996, Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica's elementary schools by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to Schneider's efforts, the school system did not have music education programs for many years.[14]

Schneider once co-owned the DNA Lounge, a San Francisco nightclub.[15]

On April 23, 2011, Schneider married television producer Patricia Azarcoya Arce, in Beverly Hills, California.[16][17] Their first child, Miranda Scarlett Schneider, was born in 2012.[18] The couple welcomed their second daughter, Madeline Robbie Schneider, in September 2016.[19]

In 2013, Schneider switched political parties from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, stating, "The state of California is a mess, and the super majority of Democrats is not working. I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and I have to switch over because it no longer serves the people of this great state."[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Martians Go Home Voyeur Martian
1991 Necessary Roughness Chuck Neiderman
1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Cedric the Bellhop
1993 Surf Ninjas Iggy
1993 Demolition Man Erwin Uncredited
1993 Beverly Hillbillies, TheThe Beverly Hillbillies Woodrow Tyler
1995 Judge Dredd Fergie, Herman Ferguson
1996 Down Periscope Lt. Martin Pascal
1996 Adventures of Pinocchio, TheThe Adventures of Pinocchio Volpe
1998 Knock Off Tommy Hendricks
1998 Susan's Plan Steve
1998 Waterboy, TheThe Waterboy Townie
1999 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Deuce Bigalow
1999 Big Daddy Nazo
1999 Muppets from Space TV Producer
2000 Little Nicky The Townie
2001 Animal, TheThe Animal Marvin Mange
2002 Mr. Deeds Nazo, the Italian Delivery Man
2002 Eight Crazy Nights Chinese Waiter & Narrator
2002 Hot Chick, TheThe Hot Chick Clive/Jessica
2004 50 First Dates Ula
2004 Around the World in 80 Days Hobo
2005 Longest Yard, TheThe Longest Yard Punky
2005 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Deuce Bigalow
2006 Grandma's Boy Yuri
2006 Benchwarmers, TheThe Benchwarmers Gus
2006 Click Prince Habeeboo Uncredited
2006 Shark Bait Nerissa Voice
2006 Little Man Dinosaur Rex Uncredited
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Asian Minister Uncredited
2007 Big Stan Stan Minton Director
2008 American Crude Bill
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan Salim
2008 Bedtime Stories Indian Horse Seller / Scammer Cameo role (uncredited)
2009 Wild Cherry Father of High School Girl[20]
2009 American Virgin Ed Curtzman
2010 Grown Ups Rob Hilliard
2010 The Chosen One Paul Zadzik Director
2011 You May Not Kiss the Bride Ernesto
2011 Top Cat: The Movie Lou Strickland U.S. dub
Voice
2012 Noah's Ark: The New Beginning Zed Voice
2012 The Outback Johnny Voice
2012 Wings Dodo Voice
2012 The Reef 2: High Tide Nerissa Voice
2012 Dino Time Dodger Voice
2013 The Little Penguin Pororo's Racing Adventure Toto
2013 InAPPropriate Comedy Psychologist / J. D.
2013 Frog Kingdom
2014 Jungle Shuffle[21] Chuy Voice
2014 Shelby Shelby Voice
2014 Wings: Sky Force Heroes Fred Voice
2015 Back to the Jurassic Dodger Voice
2015 OMG, I'm a Robot! Robo Joseph
2015 Pups United Benny
2015 The Ridiculous 6 Ramon
2016 Norm of the North Norm Voice
2016 The Adventures of Panda Warrior[22] Patrick Voice
2017 Sandy Wexler TBA

Web series

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Game Grumps Himself 1 episode

Television series

Year Title Role Notes
1989 227 Jeremy 1 episode
1990-1991 Coach Leonard Kraleman 2 episodes
1990-1994 Saturday Night Live Various 80 episodes
1996-1997 Men Behaving Badly Jamie Coleman 35 episodes
1998 Ally McBeal Ross Fitzsimmons 1 episode
2007 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Lindsay Lohan 1 episode
2012 Rob Rob 8 episodes
2012 Betty White's Off Their Rockers Himself 3 episodes
2013 Inside Amy Schumer Rich 1 episode
2014 Hot in Cleveland Chill 1 episode
2015-present Real Rob Rob 8 episodes

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
1997 A Fork in the Tale Delivery Guy Voice

References

  1. 1 2 Chumley, Cheryl K. (1 Oct 2013). "Hollywood star Rob Schneider turns Republican, citing Democratic 'disaster'". Washington Times. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rob Schneider Biography (1963–)". filmreference.com. Retrieved September 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ Shister, Gail (August 5, 1996). "SCHNEIDER GETS NO TIME OFF FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
  4. ↑ Pfefferman, Naomi. "InterfaithFamily.com". InterfaithFamily.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  5. ↑ Gray Streeter, Leslie (December 11, 2002). "HOW ROB SCHNEIDER BECAME THE HOT CHICK". Palm Beach Post. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
  6. ↑ "The 10 Most Obnoxious Recurring SNL Characters".
  7. ↑ Awards for Rob Schneider at the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ ""Lohan" Boozes, Bounces on Leno -- You Gotta See This!!!". http://www.tmz.com. External link in |work= (help)
  9. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (2015-11-20). "[VIDEO] 'Real Rob' Trailer: Rob Schneider Goes All Hollywood On Netflix". Deadline. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  10. ↑ "'Real Rob': Rob Schneider's Comedy Series Coming to Netflix". Hollywood Reporter. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  11. ↑ "Rob Schneider honored for helping boost travel to Taiwan". focustaiwan.tw.
  12. ↑ Condran, Ed (27 November 2015). "Elle King to bring fiery blues attitude to Philadelphia". The Morning Call. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  13. ↑ DeVille, Chris (10 December 2015). "Elle King Is Swaggering Out Of Her Father's Shadow". Stereogum. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "RSMF - About". Robschneidermusicfoundation.org. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  15. ↑ "DNA Lounge: Ancient History: 1906–1998". December 13, 2000. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
  16. ↑ PEP.ph (April 4, 2013). "Rob Schneider marries for the third time | PEP.ph: The Number One Site for Philippine Showbiz". PEP.ph. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  17. ↑ People Magazine Online. "Rob Schneider is married!".
  18. ↑ Published 11.19.12 Print (November 19, 2012). "Exclusive Details: Rob Schneider and Wife Welcome Baby!". Toofab.com. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  19. ↑ Juneau, Jen and Elizabeth Leonard (September 14, 2016). "Rob Schneider Welcomes Daughter Madeline Robbie". People.com. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Schneider, Raymonde, Willis, in 'Wild Cherry' – EW.com". Entertainment Weekly. April 21, 2008.
  21. ↑ "Jungle Shuffle". iTunes. Apple. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Lionsgate's 'Kung Fu Panda' Knockoff Looks Even Worse Than It Sounds". May 23, 2016.

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