PROFESSION: PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN

Chris Rock as Christopher Julius “Chris” Rock (III) was born on 7^th February,1965. He came up as an American actor, film producer, screenwriter, standup comedian , television producer . In early 1990’s, he became more famous as being a member of The Saturday Night Live. He had   produced a lot of movies and acted in a lot of TV serials, movies, stage plays. He has been a stand-up comedian for over twelve years, and he even made his big screen debut in the movie Beverly Hill Cop II  He had been bestowed with many awards and recognitions. In 2007, he had been labeled as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian by The Comedy Central and also as the ninth greatest standup comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. But in 2010, Chris Rock came on the eighth position.

EARLY LIFE AND CHILDHOOD

Chris Rock was born and brought up in Andrews, South Carolina. His mother “Rosalie” was a teacher and also worked as a social worker for the mentally handicapped. His father “Julius Rock” was a truck driver and later he became a newspaper deliveryman. Chris had three younger brothers Tony, Kenny and Jordan who are in the same profession as he is. He had one older brother Charles who suffered from alcoholism died in 2006. After Chris was born, the family shifted to Brooklyn in New York and later relocated themselves in the working class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.

Rock was bullied and beaten by the white students when he was doing his schooling which was dominated by the white neighborhoods in Brooklyn. But later as he grew up, his parents dropped him out of the school after the worse attitude of the whites. Rock worked at many fast food restaurants. He had also received a diploma of general education.

CAREER

Chris Rock is a man of talent. He is an all rounder as he presented himself as an actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, stage player, etc. He began his stand up comedy in 1984.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIFE

In 1990, he joined a sketch comedy series of comedy night life. He and other cast members formed a group known as the bad boys of Saturday Night Life. It included  Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade. His first comedy movie was released in 1991 and was applauded for the dramatic role. The Saturday Night Life gave him more national exposure .

FILM STAR

Rock had increasingly worked behind the camera as both screenwriter and producer. Two of his movies which he directed and played the lead role like Head Of The State and I Think I love My Wife.  Also working as a  producer and director, he had done voice work in Madagascar animated film franchise. His first documentary was released in 2009 as “Good Hair”. After he got success in his standup comedy , he started receiving the offers for movies. In 2010, he appeared in many movies like Death at a funeral, Grown Ups, 2 Days in New York.

FILM PRODUCER

Despite of being a film star, he had produced many comic series. One of his very famous comic series called “Everybody hates Chris” was all about his old school days when he was bullied. The show got all the critic success high ratings. It got a 2006 People’s Choice Award for the best television comedy and two Emmy Awards in 2006 for costuming and cinematography. Most recently in 2012, he produced the series “Totally biased with W. Kamau Bell”.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Rock is a man of many talents. Rock’s first music video was his own song “Your Mother’s Got a Big Head” from his own album born suspect. He appeared in  many videos of his own such as “Hump De Bump”,Big Daddy Kane music video “Smooth Operator”.

STAGE PLAYS

He also showed his interest in stage plays for which he got nominated for a Drama League Award. In 2011, he acted in Stephen Adly’s play “The Motherfucker With a Hat” with Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciora.

COMEDIC STYLE

Rock’s subject matter typically involves family, politics, romance, music, class relationships, and race relations in the United States. Although he never showed interest in writing autobiography but many of his comics revolved around his childhood about his schooldays when he was bussed in a white neighborhood school in Brooklyn and his parents were concerned about the inadequacies of the local school system. He recalls as a memory that what he got was a worse education in a worse neighbourhood rather than a good education in a good neighborhood. In 2007 in London at the live concert which was flashing live on BBC , Rock called the crowd “motherfucker” and “shit” and after a pause he said he was joking. Rock cutoff from the  broadcast of BBC and later the management apologized Rock for using the word “motherfucker”.

PERSONAL LIFE

Chris Rock married a girl named Malaak Compton who was the founder and executive director of Styleworks. It is a non-profit, full-service salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workforce. They have two daughters together, Lola Simone and Zahra Savannah. Rock resides with his wife in Alpine, New Jersey.  Rock’s great-great-grandfather known as Julius Caesar Tingman, was a slave for 21 years before serving as a part of the United States Colored Troops until 1866. Tingman fought in the American Civil War.

CONTROVERSIES

In November 2006, the words were spread that Rock had filed a divorce approximately after ten years of his marriage to Malaak. But however, after two weeks the news came that rock had not filed a divorce and the couple had solved their issues and differences and stayed together. With this Rock claimed it to be as the untrue rumors and lies.

Another controversy came in 2007, a former actress Kali Bowyer, filed a case against Rock saying that he is the father of her son. But later, DNA test results showed that Rock was  not the child’s father.

FILMOGRAPHY

He has a got a lot of fame, popularity, respect, fan following through his different works in movies. In 1989, his documentary short movie “Who is Chris Rock” in which he played a role of himself. His another documentary was also a hit named as “Comedian” . Also in 1989, paparazzi was released in which he played a cameo role of a pizza delivery boy. Documentaries like “Good Hair”, “Torrance Rises”, “The N-Word”, “Aristrocrats” were huge hits. He was nominated for the voice in Teen Choice Awards for Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted which was released in 2010. He came as director, producer, and writer in movies like “I think I love my wife”, “Head of state”, “Pootie Tang” and many other.

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 Kevin George Knipfing aka Kevin James, born on April 26, 1965, is basically famous as an American actor and a producer. Not only this, he also earned a great success as a writer, and a comedian. Popular for Doug Heffernan, a character he played in a hit show “The King of Queens”. Further his roles and his acting skills in various films like, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Zookeeper, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Here Comes the Boom are tremendous.  Further, ‘Dusty Peacock’,a famous web series came in the year 2009 which was produced by James. Nichelodean Kids Awards were also hosted by James in the year 2010.

Early life

James born in Mineola, New York, has a German ancestry. He has two siblings, Gary Valentine, a comedian as well and Leslie Knipfing who works for him. She also helped him to raise the money through various charity events for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that also leads to permanent blindness, which she also possesses. James was raised Catholic. Graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1983, where he was on the football and wrestling teams. Further, James was a student at the State University of New York ,but he didn’t graduate from there. He was also a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

Career 

James started with his stand-up comedy in 1989, at the East Side Comedy Club in Long Island, New York. Then eventually, he got popular via a number of talk shows, like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Late Show with David Letterman, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Dennis Miller Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He also worked on Just for Laugh’s annual comedy festival held in Montreal and as a musical guest later. He started his own stand-up special, Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff in the year 2001.

Television

He made his debut on TV through a sports game show SandBlast, as an announcer, till 1996, on the MTV channel. He moved to Los Angeles and he appeared as a guest-star on a few episodes on CBS in Romano’s popular sitcoms.  After these shows, he started his own sitcom, The King of Queens, in which he acted as a middle-class delivery man, who was a worker of a company called IPS and Leah Remini played his wife’s role. He then got a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The King of Queens, for the year 2006. Later, he got a chance to be the grand marshal for saying the line “Gentlemen, start your engines” for NASCAR racing, which got famous in the auto racing in, 2007′s Pepsi 400, then again in 2010, with his buddy Adam Sandler for the promotion of Grown Ups and later in 2012, at the event of fall Talladega race.

Film

James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy, Hitch with Will Smith and Eva Mendes as his co-stars. In 2006, he worked as a voice actor in Monster House and Barnyard, both animated films. James then worked with Adam Sandler in many movies like, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. His movie “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” became the first film in the history of North America who brought a profit of $39 million in a weekend and later grossed $219 million in total. Lately, he acted in Grown Ups with Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and David Spade; which was criticized a lot but was huge success on the box office. In 2011, he wrote, produced and even played lead roles in Zookeeper and The Dilemma, with Vince Vaughn. James again wrote produced and played a lead role in Here Comes the Boom which is mixed martial-arts comedy in 2012. In the same year, he gave his voice in another animated movie, Hotel Transylvania. In 2013, he again worked with his grown Ups co-stars in its sequel, Grown Ups 2 and now he is planning on releasing the sequel of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Personal life

He got married to Steffiana de la Cruz, an actress in 2004 and fathered two daughters Sienna-Marie & Shea Joelle and a son Kannon Valentine. His elder brother, Gary Valentine is also a comedian and acted in King of Queens. James is also a huge sports fan and a supporter of the New York Islanders, New York Knicks, New York Mets and New York Jets. As he is a Catholic, he also made his appearance on a Catholic TV channel EWTN’s World Over.

Awards

He got a nomination for Emmy Awards in 2006 for The King of Queens. He also got two nominations in Teen Choice Awards for Hitch. In 2011, he was nominated in the Arm Fart Hall of Fames Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

Richness

Kevin James has a net worth of $80 million. He became famous worldwide and earned this luxury as he is an amazing American actor, a heart throbbing comedian, a great writer and also a producer.  He was also the host of the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in 2010.

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PROFESSION: STAND-UP COMEDIAN

INTRODUCTION

Kevin Hart was born on 6^th July 1979. He is 34 years old stand up comedian. Kevin Hart is fabulous when it comes to comedy. With his witty sense of humor he has won many hearts. From childhood itself, he was interested in mimicry and tried to develop his own art and style. He always gives a heart throbbing comic act and impresses everyone with his performance. He has superb comic timing and has done many stage shows and many roles in movies. He has released his own Stand-up album in the year 2008 “I’m a Grown Little Man”.

EARLY LIFE

Kevin Hart was born in Pennsylvania in a middle class family. He is a single parent child as his father in his childhood was a cocaine addict; he was jailed many a times and had many offensive records. Kevin has one brother Robert Hart who is older than him. Kevin discovered his talent of making people laugh from very young age only. Kevin used to entertain people with the natural talent, and had an ability to win everyone’s heart with his amusing ways.  He had seen a lot of troubles in his upbringing days. He used his art as a mean to come over all the sorrows that he faced. He completed his high school education from George Washington High School and completed his graduation from Community College in New York. He served himself as a shoe salesman also. He finally ended up with his interest after giving a stand-up comedy act at a night club in Philadelphia.

CAREER

Kevin did many shows as a stand up comedian. His first appearance was in Philadelphia at The Laff House. The start of his career was not that good and many a times he was not appreciated for his work. The worst criticism he faced was during his performance when someone had thrown a chicken piece on him. He had seen many ups and down but decided to make his mark in comedy. He finally tried his chance in many comedy competitions and ended with the happy face. He has his own exceptional style of mimicry which is a mixture of several other acts performed by known artists like Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. He has performed at various places and with this in 2009 he started his tour. He presented his famous acts “I’m a Grown Little Man” in 2009, “Seriously Funny” and many more. The recent one in 2013 is a television show “Let Me Explain” which made him won many hearts. This was a million dollar successful show. He is active on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and blogs. He keeps on entertaining by his new acts.

PERSONAL LIFE  

He got married in 2003 with Torrei. She was also a stand up comedian. Their relationship started due to the same work interests they had. The marriage didn’t go well and the beautiful couple got separated after 7 years of their successful marriage. Kevin Hart has one daughter Heaven Hart and a son Hendrix Hart. Sources say that the couple is maintaining a healthy friendly relationship after the separation. His lovely mother died from cancer in the year 2006. Talking about his father he had developed a good tuning with him now. His father has improved and overcame with his habit of consuming cocaine. In 2013 Hart was arrested and was accused for drunk driving. With his habit he once meets with an accident. He was under three year of probation period because for his drinking habits.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

He won many awards like in 2005 he got the “Best Actor” award from BET Awards for his outstanding performance in “Think like a Man”. In 2013 he won an award under the category of NBA- celerity. He has hosted many award shows.

NET WORTH

The net worth property owned by him through his assets and Luxuries are $14 million. He owns a private jet. He has a luxurious cars and very fond of classy ones. The recent car he owns is the Range Rover of worth $95,125. He has earned over $9 million from his comedy shows. He has craze of accessories and his favorite is the Jewels from Shannon Saint Clair Jewelry. He has cars from Chevrolet too.

MORE ABOUT HIM

He had done many films and television shows. The Films he acted in are:

• In 2002 he acted in films like “Paper Soilders” and “Scary Movie 3.
• In 2003 he acted in “Death of Dynasty”.
• In 2004 he did a role in “Along Came Polly” and “Solo Plane”.
• In 2005 he worked in “The- 40- Year- Old- Virgin” and “In The Mix”.
• In the year 2006 he acted in the movie “The Last Stand”.
• In the year 2007 he worked “Epic’s Movie”
•  In year 2008 he has done roles in “Fools Gold” and “Superhero Movie” “Extreme Movie” “Meet Dave” and “Drillibit Taylor”.
• In year 2009 he acted in films like “Party Down”, “Not Easily Broken”, “ I am a Grown Little Man”,” Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire”.
• In year 2010 he did films like “Something like a Business”, “Death at a Funeral”, “Little Fockers”, “Seriously Funny”.
• In year 2011 he acted in “35 and Ticking” , “Let Go”, “The Precious One”, “Laugh at My Pain”.
• In year 2012 he did films like “The Five-Year Engagement”, “Think like a Man”, “Exit Strategy”.
• In the year 2013 he did film like “This is the End”, “Grudge Match”, “Let Me Explain”.

There is a list of television shows done by him, the recent ones are:

• In the year 2010 “Cubed”.
• In the year 2011 he did many television shows like “Untitled Burr and Hart Project”, “Little in Common”, “Modern Family”.
• In the year 2012 he hosted a Music Video Award Show.
• In the year 2013 he did shows like “Real Husbands Of Hollywood”,”Saturday Night Love”, “Wild ’n Out”.

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PROFESSION / CAREER: COMEDIAN

“Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I’m like, and I just go, ‘Ugh’.”

– Louis C.K.

Dashing personality

Born on September 12^th, 1967, Louis Szekely (popularly known as Louis C.K.) is a stand-up comedian, voice actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He was an editor, writer and director to a very popular series “Louie”. He was born in Washington, D.C. but he later went to Mexico at the age of seven. After few years he then moved to Massachusetts. He was a long sighted person. He has a quest which could not easily be satisfied. He was trend setter.

Family background

Louis was born to Luis and Mary. His father had Mexican and Hungarian descent while his mother is Irish Catholic. Such two completely different personalities fell in love with each other in Harvard University. His parents later divorced and Louis was raised by his mother with his three other siblings. His mother was a great source of inspiration to him in later years of his career.

Early Years

He first set his foot in stand-up comedy at the early age of 17 but the content did not satisfy his hunger. He also worked as an auto mobile mechanic soon after his graduation. The time when he joined stand-up comedy stage, was not the right time. He faced a lot of troubles to set himself in the grounds of comedy. He even did not have enough money to pay his rent and also faced a serious motor bike accident. But his times bloomed later.

Career

After a major set-back, his good times came with Caroline’s Comedy Hour where he was appointed as a staff writer. He was also writer and director to Pootie Tang.

Louis C.K. is a known risk taker. He has sole himself very well in the market. It was because of his tactics and strategic marketing decisions, his show tickets were sold at 45 dollar.

He is also known to set the record of making 4.5 million dollars in just 45 hours by eliminating the middlemen and selling the videos of his show directly to viewers through internet. He was faced ups and downs during his entire career but gave a major hit with “Louie”. He is solely responsible for the success of the show as he was the writer, director as well as the editor. His graph of success reached peak when he shared the stage with the legend of comedy Jerry Seinfeld. He was also writer to various other popular shows like Late Night with Conan O’Brian, The Chris Rock Show and The Dana Carvey.

How much money does he make?

Louis makes a lot of money from his various fields. His net worth is 16 million dollar. He has earned as writer, director, voice actor and as a stand-up comedian.

Marital status: Divorced

Louis was married to Alix Bailey in the year 1995. But the two later separated in the year 2008.He has two kids – Mary Louise Szekely and Kitty Szekely.

Generous donator

The comedian, Louis makes people smile not just by his comedy but also through his generous donations. After earning from his videos which were aired online, he quickly announced his generous donation of 280,000 dollars to charity.

He was also a kind employer. He did not keep the profit he earned just to himself. He shared 250,000 dollars amongst people who had been working for him.

He has also given donations to Fistula Foundation (organization that helps the raped women), Green Chimneys (helping the destitute children) and Charity Water (providing water supplies to poor).

Awards and recognitions

• He has been nominated for 25 Primetime Emmy Award.
• He is ranked 97^th in the list of top 100 celebrities in Forbes. Also he is 79^th in Money, 82^th in TV/Radio, 84^th in Press, 63^th in Social and 68^th in Marketability by Forbes.
• Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program for The Chris Rock Show
• Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Louie: Pregnant
• Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for Live at the Beacon Theater
• Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special Louis C.K.: Oh My God

Quotes

• “I remember thinking in fifth grade, ‘I have to get inside that box and make this [stuff] better’… because she deserves this.”
• “I believe God is there and he is watching and he made us. I just don’t give a shit.”
• “If I were to make a list of possibilities, God would be pretty far down. But if I were to make a list of people that know what the fuck they are talking about, I would be REALLY far down.”
• “Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I’m very suspicious. It doesn’t make sense to me that you’d have the same solution to every issue.”
• I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.
• I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

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