Lewis Black Net Worth 2024

What is Lewis Black’s Net Worth?

Lewis Black is an American comedian, actor, playwright, creator, and producer who has a net worth of $2.5 million. Black first grew to become nationally well-known after he started showing on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” in 1996, and he was given his personal present on the community, “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil,” in 2008. Lewis voiced Anger within the 2015 Pixar movie “Inside Out,” and he has appeared in dozens of movie and tv initiatives, reminiscent of “Accepted” (2006), “Man of the Year” (2006), and “Madoff” (2016). Black has produced a number of of his stand-up comedy specials in addition to “Root of All Evil,” the 2008 documentary “History of the Joke,” and the 2016 TV collection “The Mentors.” Lewis has launched greater than a dozen comedy albums, together with “The White Album” (2000), “Rules of Enragement” (2003), and “The Rant is Due” (2017), and he has revealed the books “Nothing’s Sacred” (2000), “Me of Little Faith” (2008), and “I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas” (2010).

Early Life

Lewis Black was born Lewis Niles Black on August 30, 1948, in Washington, D.C. His mom, Jeannette, was a instructor, and his father, Samuel, was a mechanical engineer and an artist. Lewis and his youthful brother, Ronald, grew up in a Jewish family in Silver Spring, Maryland; sadly, Ronald handed away from most cancers in 1997. Black attended Springbrook High School, and after commencement, he enrolled on the University of Maryland, College Park, then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a 12 months. At UNC, he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity and Student Congress, and he studied playwriting. After incomes his diploma in 1970, Lewis moved again to Washington, D.C. and took a job on the Appalachian Regional Commission. He continued to jot down performs, and he started performing stand-up comedy at an area tavern known as the Brickskeller. He later attended Yale School of Drama, graduating with an MFA diploma in 1977. Black was the affiliate creative director and playwright-in-residence at West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theatre Bar in New York City, and he labored on quite a few one-act performs with creative director Rand Foerster and lyricist Rusty Magee within the Eighties. Lewis and Rusty additionally wrote a musical, “The Czar of Rock and Roll,” and it premiered on the Alley Theatre in Houston in 1990.

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Stand-Up Comedy Career

In the early Nineties, Lewis appeared on “An Evening on the Improv” a number of instances, and he acquired his personal “Comedy Central Presents” particular in 1998, then once more in 2000 and 2002. He starred within the Comedy Central particular “Taxed Beyond Belief” in 2002 and the HBO particular “Black on Broadway” in 2004, and in 2007, he co-hosted Comedy Central’s “Last Laugh ’07” with Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley. In 2006, Black earned his first Best Comedy Album Grammy nomination, for “Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues,” and he later obtained nominations for “The Carnegie Hall Performance,” “Anticipation,” “Stark Raving Black,” and “In God We Rust,” successful twice. In 2009, his live performance movie “Stark Raving Black” was launched, and he hosted “Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black” on the History Channel. “Stark Raving Black” was adopted by the comedy specials/albums “In God We Rust” (2012), “Old Yeller” (2013), “Black to the Future” (2017), and “Thanks For Risking Your Life” (2020). In 2004, Lewis was ranked #51 on Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand Up Comics of All Time” listing, and within the community’s “Stand Up Showdown,” he was voted #5 in 2008 and #11 in 2010.

Film and Television Career

Black made his appearing debut within the 1986 movie “Hannah and Her Sisters,” and in 1990, he appeared in “Jacob’s Ladder” and commenced a five-episode stint on the tv collection “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.” He then appeared within the movies “The Hard Way” (1991), “The Night We Never Met’ (1993), and “Joey Breaker” (1993) and guest-starred on “Law & Order” (1991), “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1997), “Mad About You” (1997), “The Brak Show” (2003), and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (2004). In 2006, Lewis appeared within the movies “Accepted,” “Man of the Year,” “Falling for Grace,” and “Unaccompanied Minors,” then he voiced Jimmy in 2007’s “Farce of the Penguins” and narrated 2010’s “Peep World.” He guest-starred on “The Big Bang Theory” in 2009, appeared within the 2013 documentary “Comedy Warriors: Healing via Humor,” and portrayed Gregory Perkins within the 2016 miniseries “Madoff.” He voiced Anger within the 2015 movie “Inside Out,” a large hit with a worldwide gross of $858.8 million, then he appeared within the movies “Stereotypically You” (2015), “Better Off Single” (2016), “Imitation Girl” (2017), and “The Last Laugh” (2019). Black has lent his voice to a number of animated initiatives, together with the movie “Rock Dog” (2016), the TV film “The Happy Elf” (2005), and the tv collection “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law” (2005–2007), “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated” (2010), “The Penguins of Madagascar” (2011), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2012; 2014), and “SpongeBob SquarePants” (2018).

Personal Life

Lewis acquired married when he was 26 years outdated, and the wedding ended 10 months later. In 2000, Black, fellow stand-up comedian Jim Norton, and 13 different folks have been arrested after “The Opie and Anthony Show” employed The Voyeur Bus to drive round Manhattan and promote the present. Several topless ladies have been on the bus, and it drove onto a road that had been cleared for Bill Clinton’s presidential motorcade. A police supply stated that the arrests have been made as a result of “it was making a crowd situation…they have been flashing everyone.” Black and Norton have been launched after “about 18 hours,” in response to Lewis, and he spoke concerning the arrest on “The Daily Show” the next night time. Lewis has carried out on three USO excursions to entertain the troops, and he has supported quite a few charities, together with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Rusty Magee Clinic for Families and Health, and Fifty Second Street Project. In 2012, the ACLU of Georgia honored Black with the National Civil Liberties Award, and the ACLU named him an “ambassador for voting rights” in 2013.

Awards and Nominations

Black received an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic in 2001, and he earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special for “Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed” in 2007. He has obtained 5 Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album, successful for “The Carnegie Hall Performance” in 2007 and “Stark Raving Black” in 2011. Lewis earned an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in 2004, and he obtained a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie: Hissy Fit for “Inside Out” in 2015. He has earned 5 Behind the Voice Actors Award nominations, taking dwelling the BTVA People’s Choice Voice Acting Award for Best Male Vocal Performance in a Feature Film in a Supporting Role and Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film for “Inside Out.” The solid additionally received the BTVA Feature Film Voice Acting Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film.