Political Comedian Lewis (Niles) Black

Born August-1948 in Washington DC, out of Jewish-descent, Silver-Spring Mary Land’s pride now living in Hell’s Kitchen New York, comedian Lewis (Niles) Black – didn’t come to the comedy scene as expected.

Lewis Black is a playwright, actor, and an author. He was playwriting while being a Pi Lambada Phi International frat. He has been a Master of Fine Arts, and his original career is a playwright. Now, comedian Lewis Black is an honored comedian with bit parts in TV and films.

In 1988, Lewis Black starred in his first comedy special on Comedy Central Present and came back with for two more episodes in 2000 and 2002 and then a 2002 Taxed Beyond Belief special for the network. Comedian Lewis Black then became best known in his regular appearances on The Daily Show where he delivers his “Back in Black” comic commentary on the recent trends and cultural phenomena melting with his ridiculed nervous breakdowns or rant reactions.

He also has become a 3-year regular host for the World Stupidity Awards at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival since 2003. In 2004, his Black on Broadway stand-up special came for HBO. That year also he appeared as a shock-jock in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit.

2005 he published his Nothing’s Sacred autobiography (with soft cover and audio-book versions). In December that year, he appeared as the voice of the tightly-wound elf Norbert in the holiday-animation The Happy Elf.

He plays Dean Ben Lewis of a faux-college in Accepted and also appears in Man of the Year film (2006). On April-2006, comedian Lewis Black performed for another HBO special Red White, and Screwed which was DVD-released on October. He is slated to become the host of his own show Red State Diaries which is deemed his second spin-off from The Daily Show after his project The Colbert Report and his on-the-road explanation for his comedic rant state subjects. We could remember that in 2000 he was arrested with fellow comedian Jim Norton because of their involvement with the “Naked Teen Voyeur Bus” which was to ride around Manhattan while being broadcasted on the Opie and Anthony radio show. The bus took the same route that the President was taking that same day. Comedian Lewis Black with Jim Norton was released after 28-hours. The following night Black alluded to the event on The Daily Show that he was not able to make a fundraising event for NY Attorney-General-candidate Mark Green because of the arrest.

Sarcasm, profanity, sanity, and his trademark angry finger-shaking, comedian Lewis Black deals with the absurdities of life and contemporary politics, usually aimed at the comedy and tragedy of conservatism as well as disbelief in authority-figures himself seeming disenchanted with both Democrats and Republicans. Before becoming a comic for TV and film, he started as theater master-of-ceremonies performing play opening-acts in stand-up comedy style. Since November 2005 he has been appearing in small segments on The Weather Channel. He’s still a comedian.