Famous for playing an amusing one-shot character in a sketch on SNL, and then that same character in less and less amusing sketches three more times. Also got into a war of words with Roger Ebert, which ended poorly for Rob (though they did make up later).
Was he the “You can do it!” guy from Adam Sandler movies? Those were funny, but his role was not. If that’s him.
He was a weak member of Saturday Night Live for a while. His most memorable role there was “the guy in the office that made up annoying nicknames for people”.
He went on to do some mediocre-to-bad movies. I think my favorite movie he ever starred in that I watched was Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, which I thought had some funny parts, but was not that great overall. I definitely don’t see a movie because he’s in it.
Otherwise, he is mostly known for little cameos in Adam Sandler comedies, I suppose.
His daughter is a musician with one big hit that came out ten years ago. (I think she’s really good.) She has a very bad relationship with him because he treated her like shit. In her words, he was absent for most of her life (her parents divorced when she was an infant) and his presence in her life was toxic when he was around.
Schneider is not my favorite comedian, and he never came across as very bright, so his batshit ignorance about health issues is no big shock.
Yes, and in Big Daddy he paraded around in brownface doing an ethnic stereotype.
And he did pretty much the same thing in 50 First Dates.
Most of his career post SNL seems to be Sandler throwing him a bone.
For more genius moves by this guy, he once claimed that Dylan Mulvaney is guilty of “cultural appropriation” for being transgender.
“Children didn’t get sick”, huh? I guess he’s never walked through a graveyard with burials from the 18th and 19th centuries and read the ages on so many of the headstones.
Or seen the photographs of iron-lung wards filled with children. My cousin was permanently disabled as a child by polio.
He sounds like the typical Republican simpleton. No one had peanut allergies when I was a kid. No one had autism… blah blah thoughtless blah.
If anything, fewer children get sick or die due to diseases like polio, measles and smallpox that have largely been eliminated due to the vaccines that he spoke out against.
Although, there were a lot of kids who weren’t sick, by virtue of being dead instead. A lot of folks don’t remember just how horrible the measles pandemic was, that ended in the 50s. And there’s a reason why I identify that pandemic by when it ended, rather than when it started.
His movie sucks.
This Georgia Nazi appears to have the hat with the skull
There’s an episode of the Pitt that deals with this issue. A woman’s child is dying from measles and she refuses him a spinal tap because the internet says it carries a risk of paralysis. It is certainly art imitating life. I wanted to drop kick her through a window.
He’s actually 1/4 Filipino, which probably explains him getting the roles to begin with, but YMMV on whether it makes those roles any less “brownface.”