Rob Schneider Biography

Robert Michael Schneider was born in San Francisco, California. His father, Marvin, was a real estate broker and his mother, Pilar, a kindergarten teacher. Rob wanted to be a stand-up comic from the very start and began performing in his high school days itself. He opened for a band called Head On, and did a lot of local radio shows. He got picked in a HBO special featuring young up-and-coming comedians. The special was hosted by SNL veteran Dennis Miller. Soon he was picked up for Saturday Night Live as a writer in 1988. He graduated from writing to become a full time cast member, and played memorable characters like ‘Orgasm Guy’ and ‘Richard Laymer’.

Rob left the show in 1994, a year when many of the cast members left. He concentrated on starting a movie career, by then he had made his debut in Martians Go Home (1990). He found work playing comic relief in movies like Judge Dredd (1995) and Demolition Man (1993). He then teamed up with SNL buddy Adam Sandler and appeared in many of his movies. He is famous for repeating the line “You can do it” in many of Adam’s films. Rob has formed a team of sorts with Adam, and he too has returned the favor by producing movies starring Rob.

In 1999, Rob starred in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo produced by Happy Madison Productions. The movie was a surprise hit and earned close to $100 million at the box-office. Rob played a pool boy, who starts a career as a male prostitute after he incurs a lot of debt. The movie was Rob’s first attempt at a solo film and it worked. Most of Rob’s better films have been with Happy Madison Productions. His next two solo films; The Animal and The Hot Chick were both produced under Sandler’s banner and were hits. Rob continues his association with Adam and has done roles in films like Little Nicky (2000), 50 First Dates (2004) and The Longest Yard (2005).

After acting, the next step for Rob was production and direction. He produced, directed and starred in Big Stan. The film is about a puny con artist who ends up in jail, and has to learn martial arts to avoid getting sodomized. Big Stan did not do well critically or commercially. He returned to the role that made him famous and came up with a sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), again this movie too did not do well, but did provided some entertainment for the tabloids. A spat broke out between Rob and film critic Patrick Goldstein. Goldstein used some choicest harsh words to criticize the film and Rob returned the favor in a newspaper advertisement. The verbal pow-wow continued for some time but eventually died down. Rob was last seen in the buddy-comedy, Grown Ups (2010) with Adam Sandler and Kevin James.