Rob Schneider Biography

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. He is the son of Pilar (ne Monroe), a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider, a real estate broker. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. 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. 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

• The Richmeister, an office worker who annoys people by giving them nicknames as they make copies.
• Carlo, from the Il Cantore Restaurant sketches
• The Sensitive Naked Man, a nude man who gives advice to other 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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	'	Woodrow Tyler
1995	Judge Dredd	Fergie, Herman Ferguson
1996	Down Periscope	Lt. Martin Pascal
1996	'	Volpe
1998	Knock Off	Tommy Hendricks
1998	Susan's Plan	Steve
1998	'	Townie
1999	Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo	Deuce Bigalow
1999	Big Daddy	Nazo
1999	Muppets from Space	TV Producer
2000	Little Nicky	The Townie
2001	'	Marvin Mange
2002	Mr. Deeds	Nazo, the Italian Delivery Man
2002	Eight Crazy Nights	Chinese Waiter & Narrator
2002	'	Clive/Jessica
2004	50 First Dates	Ula
2004	Around the World in 80 Days	Hobo
2005	'	Punky
2005	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo	Deuce Bigalow
2006	Grandma's Boy	Yuri
2006	'	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
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	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	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