Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. is a popular American standup comedian and actor. Another one of the coolest fat comedians. He began his career back in the 1980s, but his real success came in 2005 after appearing on HBO. His show “Tattered” was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. In 2010, C.K. created the comedy series “Louie,” which received several Emmy nominations and won two of them.
Louis C.K. has appeared in several films and T.V. series, including the drama mini-series “Horace and Pete,” starring Steve Buscemi. In 2017, the comedian tried his hand at directing “I Love You, Daddy,” but it never premiered due to allegations of harassment. Louis pleaded guilty and was out of work for about a year, but then returned to the stage, greeted enthusiastically by fans.
During his performances, C.K. talks about the mundane aspects of life: parenthood, marriage and divorce, and the daily grind. Louis sticks to the classic standup genre, very subtly and shrewdly picking up hidden meanings in any situation. His shows are very realistic, and his jokes are very frank, but not everyone likes the ghetto truth of Louis C.K.’s life.
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Lewis Black
American standup comedian, actor, writer, playwright and producer. Another fabulous comedian from the fat comedians. He is best known for his comedy segment “Back in Black” on The Daily Show and his appearances on HBO.
Black is considered one of the most cynical comedians in the United States, and nervousness and anger, often demonstrated during his performances, have become his “calling card”. He currently resides in New York City.
Lewis Black was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He received his B.A. in Drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (he attended the University of Maryland at College Park for a year before enrolling there) and his M.A. in Drama from Yale University’s School of Drama.
In the 1960s, he belonged to the hippie movement, took part in their protests and used large quantities of hallucinogenic and narcotic substances. This experience served, in part, later as the basis for his plays and later performances in the standup genre.
After completing his education, he worked for a time in the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he first encountered the power of the American bureaucracy.
During those young years, Black said, he was idealistic and tried to do his job responsibly, helping Indians on reservations, but could not overcome “walls of bureaucracy, stupidity and callousness”; all this, he said, left a deep mark on his soul and was a significant part of his show of anger and frustration toward the American bureaucracy.
After this period of his life, he decided to devote himself to the main interest of his life, the theater. He wrote more than 40 plays and was the artistic director of the 42nd Street Theater in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City from 1981-1989. After a change in theater management, Black left the theater and continued his career as a standup comedian on television and radio.
During this same period of his life, Black got married. In his autobiography, he wrote that when he walked out of the registry office with his new wife, he saw a man being handcuffed by police officers. Black called the event an ominous omen. The marriage lasted less than a year.
“Back in Black” and the rise in popularity.
In 1996 Black began appearing in his own comedy column, “Back in Black”, on the “Daily Show” and continues to do so today. There he gives his assessment of the political and social events taking place in the United States in a rather unusual way: reading monologues full of cynicism, frustration, and harsh humor, exposing all the problems of American society. The program became a hit and brought Black great fame.
Zachary Knight (Zach) Galifianakis
He is an actor, comedian, writer, and producer from the United States. Another one of the fat comedians. He is best known for The Hangover in Vegas, The Hangover 2: From Vegas to Bangkok, The Hangover: Part III, and Tight End.
Zach’s father’s parents are immigrants from Greece. By religion, Zach, like his father, belongs to Greek Orthodoxy. Zach’s mother is Scottish and of Irish descent.
The actor has a younger sister, Merritt, and an older brother, Greg. In addition, Nick Galifianakis, a former U.S. congressman who served as North Carolina’s representative from 1967 to 1973, has a nephew named Zach.
Galifianakis attended the University of North Carolina but failed his final exams, falling just one point short of the required minimum, and moved to New York.
Zach began his artistic journey with small humorous numbers that he gave next to the hamburger vans in Times Square. Gradually his popularity grew, and he began hosting his own television talk show, where he brought to the audience’s attention the underground stars with which he began his career.
Later he repeated this experience in the sketch show “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis”, inviting for interviews the stars of the first magnitude: Barack Obama, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Liza Kudrow, and many others.
Kevin James
He is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. He gained the most notoriety for his portrayal as Doug in the CBS comedy King of Queens. He is also known for his participation in the films “Rules of the House: The Hitch Method”, “Chuck and Larry: The Fire Wedding”, “Shop Cop”, “The Fat Man in the Ring”, “Classmates”, “Classmates 2”, “Dilemma” and “Pixels”.
Kevin began his career in standup comedy and television talk shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and others. In 2001, he appeared on a standup program called Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff.
Through his participation in some episodes of the sitcom CBS TV Everybody Loves Raymond, where the main role was played by his friend Ray Romano, Kevin was offered a significant role in the television series “King of Queens. For his work on the series in 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy T.V. Series.
On March 27, 2010, he hosted the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.
He is married to Steffiana de la Cruz, with whom he has four children.
David Michael Cockner
American comic actor, occasional writer and producer. Another fantastic comedian from the fat comedians.
David Cockner was born August 24, 1962, in Tipton, Missouri, the son of Margaret Ann Cockner (nee Downey) and Cecil Stephen Cockner, who was a turkey cage manufacturer. David’s father is of German ancestry, and his mother is of Irish ancestry. David has two brothers and three sisters.
After high school, David studied political science at English Benedictine College and then at the University of Missouri. However, immediately after his higher education, David left for Chicago, deciding to become a comic entertainer. There he played in the improvisational theater English. iO Theater, learning acting from the famous actor and teacher Del Close, played in the troupe The Second City.
In 1995 Cockner made his first T.V. appearance, appearing in 20 episodes of Saturday Night Live and making his big screen debut in 1997 with the movie The Rascal, where he played a small part in a director’s cut. To date, Cockner has appeared in almost 120 films and T.V. series, three times as a screenwriter and twice as a producer.
In 2005, he was nominated for Best Musical Performance at the MTV Movie Awards (with three other actors) for his role in Television Host but did not receive an award.
On June 27, 1998, he married Leigh Cockner; children are Charles Patrick and Margot Grace, twins William Sargent and Audrey Violet (born 2006) and Eva Juliet (born 2011). The names of his wife and all five children are tattooed on the actor’s right shoulder.
Jay Leno
American actor, standup comedian, television host, and writer, best known as NBC’s The Tonight Show host. Another one of the fat comedians.
Born in New York State, Leno graduated from Emerson College in the early 1970s, and his television career was already well underway in the ’90s. His manner was influenced by Don Rickels, Johnny Carson and Bob Newhart.
In addition, Leno provided voiceovers for minor characters in a number of well-known animated series, including Kitty the cat and himself in South Park, The Simpsons’ The Last Temptation of Krust, and Family Guy’s Patriot Games. Despite his considerable success, Jay Leno’s manner and image are often criticized (in particular, semi-jokingly criticized by another famous television comedian, David Letterman).
From 1992 to 2014, he hosted The Tonight Show on NBC (with a break from 2009 to 2010, when he hosted his own The Jay Leno Show). However, in 2010 there was a serious conflict between him and the new host of The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien, which became a major event in American media and P.R.
Jonathan “John” Michael Lovitz
American actor, comedian, and singer. Another cool comedian from the fat comedians.
Lowitz was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. His father’s parents emigrated in 1920 from Yass and settled in Jacksonville, Florida. Their original surname, Ianculovici, was Americanized to Jankulovits after emigrating and later shortened to Lovitz. His maternal grandmother immigrated from Hungary, and his maternal grandfather was born in Chicago to a family of immigrants from Russia.
He studied theater at the University of California, Irvine, where he graduated in 1979. He studied acting under Tony Barr. Later became a member of the California comedy troupe The Groundlings, where he became friends with Phil Hartman.
He is a movie actor and comedian known for his humorous appearances on various television shows. He is also well known for his voice acting, making him a frequent voice actor on animated series such as The Simpsons, playing several characters at once. In addition, Lovitz sings in musicals on Broadway.
Carlos Mencia
American standup comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is known for his bold, controversial jokes on politics, race, justice, social class stratification, and national disasters. Another one of the fat comedians.
Ned Arnel Mencia (the comedian’s real name) was born on October 22, 1967, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He was the seventeenth of eighteen children (11 sisters and six brothers) in the family. His father was Roberto Holness, and he was a Honduran whose ancestors were from Germany, Great Britain and the Cayman Islands.
His mother is Magdelena Mencia, a Mexican. At the time of Ned Arnel’s birth, his parents were at serious odds, so at his mother’s request, the child was given her surname rather than his father’s. Nevertheless, the future actor himself called himself Ned Holness until the age of 18.
At the age of seven months, Mencia moved to Los Angeles, where he lived with his aunt Consuelo and uncle Pablo, went to school there (he lived in Honduras again in 1979-1982), then went to the University of California[en], studied electrical engineering, but dropped out, deciding to devote himself to work as a stage comic after his success in The Laugh Factory in the late 1980s.
He first appeared in an episodic role on television in 1990, made his debut on the big screen in 2002, and has worked as a screenwriter since 1994 and as a producer since 2005.
Monique Angela Ames
American actress and comedian. She is the recipient of Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and a U.S. Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Treasure (2009).
Mo’Nick was born in Woodlawn, Maryland, to Stephen Ames Jr., a drug counselor, and Alice Ames, an engineer. She is the youngest of four children. She graduated from Milford Mill High School in Baltimore and Morgan State University. In 1987 she graduated from the Maryland Institute of Broadcasting.
Before her acting career, Mo’Nick worked as a telephone operator. She achieved success with a starring role in the UPN sitcom “The Parkers,” where she starred from 1999 to 2004. Since then, she has starred in several African-American films before her success with her role in “Treasure.” In 2009, she launched her own show on BET. The project closed in 2011.
In 2010, Mo’Nick won an Academy Award and numerous other awards for her role as the evil mother of the title character played by Gabourey Sidibe in Lee Daniels’ “Treasure.” After that, however, Mo’Nick did not appear on screen for the next five years. In a 2015 interview, she stated that she received only fifty thousand dollars for her role in the film and the studio producer of the film, Lionsgate, refused to pay for her trip to Cannes during its promotional campaign.
Mo’Nick, because of this, gained fame in the work of the actress has a problem, which cost her roles in Hollywood. Lee Daniels, however, offered her the role of his wife in the movie “The Butler” and grandmother in the bypic about the life of Richard Pryor. Both roles eventually went to Oprah Winfrey.
In 2014, Mo’Nick played the role of the religious mother of a gay teenager in the independent film Blackbird. She also starred with Queen Latifah and Handi Alexander in the HBO biographical film “Bessie Smith,” about the life of Bessie Smith, playing Ma Rainey.
The role earned her critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination. Shortly after that, Mo’Nick returned to the big screen with a role in the Universal Pictures comedy-drama “Myers Christmas” with Kimberly Elise and Gabrielle Union.
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Ralphie Duren May
American standup comedian and actor. Another cool comedian from the fat comedians.
Ralphie Duren May was born on February 17, 1972, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He was the youngest, fourth child in the family; his childhood was spent in the town of Clarksville (Arkansas). At the age of sixteen, he was in a car accident where he suffered 42 different fractures; he never fully recovered from the accident until the end of his life.
Since his youth, his idol was the standup comedian Sam Kinison and, following in his footsteps, and he won a competition at age 17 and, inspired by his success, moved to Houston where he graduated from the High School of Performing and Visual Arts, after which he settled in Los Angeles to pursue a comedy career.
In 2003, May was selected to participate in the first season of the show Last Comic Standing, where he came in second place; first place went to Dat Phan. After that, he frequently appeared on The Wayne Brady Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
In 2005 he became the only white comedian on The Big Black Comedy Show. That year, he released his first comedy album, Just Correct; he later recorded several more programs (see “Discography“).
Ralphie Duren May died of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 6, 2017; he had been battling pneumonia for the past several months but continued to perform on stage.
Throughout his life, May was obese, triggered by a car accident he suffered in his youth. He weighed up to 360 kilograms, and in 2004 he underwent gastric surgery, which, together with special diets, allowed him to lose two hundred kilograms.
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