Rob Schneider

Martin Robert Schneider, called "dickman" after the film Deuce Bigalow (born October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is a American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for his lowbrow films.

Biography

Career

He was a Saturday Night Live 1990-1995, and appears in multiple films starring fellow alum Adam Sandler. The comedic characters Schneider normally plays in Sandler's films are either a Cajun man who utters, "You can do it!", or a Middle Eastern delivery boy. Schneider also portrays innocent goofballs or generally harmless "funny" men in his films. He made appearances on the TV series Coach as well. He "won" a 2005 Razzie Award for Worst Actor for his role in European Gigolo.

Besides movies and television, Schneider made an appearance in the music video for country singer Neil McCoy's "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On." Schneider plays Billy, who is the focus of the song.

Feuds with critics

In January 2005, film critic Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said in an article that Male Gigolo was overlooked for an Academy Award because "nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic." Schneider responded two weeks later with full-page ads in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter where he said "Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind ... Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers."^*

In August 2005, film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times responded to the ad in his review for European Gigolo. While noting that an online search showed that Goldstein had won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement, Ebert said "As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks." ^* Ebert's website editor, Jim Emerson, also brought up a section of Schneider's former SNL castmate Jay Mohr's autobiography, in which Mohr said that Schneider was condescending to him.

Prior to the incident, Schneider had called into The Howard Stern Show while Ebert was a guest, and said "My movies are funny. You (Ebert) totally slam me every time..." and said that he didn't "think he (Ebert) got laid a lot in high school."Later in an interview with Stuff magazine, Schneider called Ebert an "ass" and said "I'm told he's not nice to the people he works with." Ebert rejected the accusation and said "...if he's going to persist in making bad movies, he's going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews."[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/334594p-285884c.html

South Park spoof

The films in which Schneider is the main character often involve his character undergoing a transformation through either natural or supernatural means. An example of a natural transformation is " Male Gigolo" in which he becomes a gigolo. An example of a supernatural transformation is "The Hot Chick", in which he becomes a woman. In "The Animal", Schneider plays a police officer who becomes very much like an animal. This formula is spoofed In the South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe", in which a trailer is shown for a series of movies in which Schneider becomes a stapler, a carrot, "Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb," and finally Kenny. The trailers follow the predictable format of Schneider movie trailers:

Rob Schneider was an animal. Then he was a woman. And now Rob Schneider is... a stapler! And he's about to find out that being a stapler is harder than it looks. Rob Schneider is... The Stapler. Rated PG-13.

He responded in an About.com interview: "I loved it. That was genius. I thought the only thing, they were too nice to me...When you’re spoofed by the best people in the business, that’s an honor."

Personal life

Schneider grew up in Pacifica, California, a small town south of San Francisco. Attended Terra Nova High School in Pacifica; He contributes greatly to the music programs at all schools in Pacifica. His father, Marvin Schneider, is a Jewish American real estate broker and his mother, Pilar Monroe, a former kindergarten teacher, is the daughter of an American soldier and a Filipina mother. Pilar plays a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick and a restaurant patron in Male Gigolo.

Schneider currently owns a home in San Francisco and in Southern California.

On June 29, 2006, Schneider collapsed from heat exhaustion and food poisoning on the set of his directorial debut film Big Stan but returned to work the following day.

Filmography

Big Stan (2007) (Pre-Production)
The Last Guy on Earth (2006) (filming)
Little Man(2006)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Click (2006) (not credited) Prince Habibu, Starring Adam Sandler
American Crude (2005) (post production)
Grandma's Boy (2006) Yuri
European Gigolo (2005)
The Longest Yard (2005 film) Starring Adam Sandler
The Last Shot (2004)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
50 First Dates (2004) Starring Adam Sandler
Blind Sided (2003)
DysFunKtional Family (2003)
Eight Crazy Nights (2002) Starring Adam Sandler
Mr. Deeds (2002) Starring Adam Sandler
The Hot Chick (2002)
The Animal (2001)
Little Nicky (2000) Starring Adam Sandler
Male Gigolo (1999)
Muppets from Space (1999)
Big Daddy (1999) Starring Adam Sandler
The Waterboy (1998) Starring Adam Sandler
Knock Off (1998)
A Fork in the Tale (1997)
Down Periscope (1996)
Judge Dredd (1995)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
Demolition Man (1993)
Surf Ninjas (1993)
Lost in New York (1992) Starring Macaulay Culkin as 'Kevin McAllister'
Necessary Roughness (1991)
Martians Go Home (1990)

External links

Rob Schneider on MySpace