Lewis Black
Lewis Black
Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his angry face and his belligerent comedic style, in which he often simulates having a mental breakdown. Black's comedy routines often escalate into angry rants about history, politics, religion, or any other cultural trends. He hosted the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and made regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivering his "Back in Black"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth30 August 1948
CitySilver Spring, MD
CountryUnited States of America
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.
The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.
Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.
You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.
Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?
All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.
I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!
Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.