Lewis Black Filmography

Born:: August 30, 1948 in Washington, D.C.
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Standup comics everywhere may rely on angry cynicism as a staple of their material, but if an award were bequeathed to the man most responsible for honing irate sarcasm, refining it, and turning it into an art form, that honor would almost certainly be handed to Lewis Black. Self-dubbed "America's...Read More

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The Best of Comedy Central Presents

Actors: Lewis Black, Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham, Jim Gaffigan, Mitch Hedberg

Synopsis: This three hour video program features a compilation of the best, funniest, and craziest stand-up comedy to be featured on the Comedy Central show Comedy Central Presents. Among the comics featured in the show are Lewis Black, Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham, Jim Gaffigan and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Read More

2008
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest

Actors: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lewis Black, Wayne Brady

Synopsis: Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest features a number of performances by some of the most talented comics of their day performing for a charity that collects money for the homeless. Among the performers who appear on this release are Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black, Jon Stewart, and David Read More

2008
Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil [TV Series]

Actors: Lewis Black

2008
Falling For Grace

Actors: Fay Ann Lee, Gale Harold, Margaret Cho, Christine Baranski, Ken Leung

Synopsis: Fay Ann Lee's modern spin on the story of Cinderella, Falling For Grace, stars Fay Ann Lee as a Chinese-American who dreams of living among the social elites in New York City. One day she is mistaken for an heiress and is invited to a posh party where she falls in love with a lawyer. She hides her Read More

7/20/07
Farce of the Penguins

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Saget, Lewis Black, Christina Applegate, Mo'nique

Synopsis: Animal Planet aesthetics get infused with blush-inducing blue-humor sensibilities as director Bob Saget teams with an all-star cast of comics including Lewis Black, Tracy Morgan, Jason Alexander, Dane Cook, and Whoopi Goldberg to prove that sometimes penguins aren't as sweet as they appear to be Read More

2007
Unaccompanied Minors

Actors: Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher

Synopsis: A handful of kids stranded without their parents is determined to make the most of a bad situation in this comedy. It's Christmas Eve, and Oliver Porter (Lewis Black), the passenger relations manager at a busy airport in the Midwest, is looking forward to spending Christmas in Hawaii with his wife Read More

12/8/06
Man of the Year

Actors: Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Good Morning, Vietnam duo Barry Levinson and Robin Williams re-team to tell the tale of a quick-witted radio talk-show host whose fanciful bid for the presidency becomes a surprising reality in the one political comedy that truly speaks for the people. When talk show host Tom Dobbs (Robin Read More

10/13/06
Accepted

Actors: Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Adam Herschman, Columbus Short, Maria Thayer

Synopsis: When the weight of rejection begins to set in after being denied entry to every college he has applied to, a high school burnout attempts to placate his mom and dad and win the heart of his dream girl by scheming with his friends to create a fake university in a hilarious comedy of artificial Read More

8/18/06
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed

Actors: Lewis Black

Synopsis: Comedian, social commentator, and author Lewis Black brings his confrontational brand of take-no-prisoners humor to the Warner Theater in Washington D.C. in this, his second stand-up comedy special for HBO. With rants on everything from the State of the Union, FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina Read More

2006
Just for Laughs: Stand Up, Vol. 2 - On the Edge

Synopsis: Just for Laughs: Stand Up Volume 2 - On the Edge features performances by five envelope pushing stand-up comics. The release features sets by Lewis Black, Insomniac's Dave Attell, Dane Cook, Saturday Night Live alum Jim Breuer, and Harland Williams. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

7/29/05
The Happy Elf

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Kevin Michael Richardson

Synopsis: One of Santa's little helpers learns that even spreading Christmas cheer can be quite a chore in this animated holiday adventure featuring the voice and music of Harry Connick, Jr. Few elves display half the Christmas cheer of Eubie, and when the grumpy town of Bluesville refuses to celebrate the Read More

2005
Lewis Black: Black on Broadway

Actors: Lewis Black

Synopsis: Lewis Black, a graduate from the Yale school of drama, found success when he established an apoplectic standup persona and began talking about politics and society. Lewis Black: Black on Broadway documents his performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theater during a tour he titled "Rules of Read More

2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Obscene

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the FCC crackdown after Janet Jackson's controversial "wardrobe malfunction", this episode focuses on two publicity-hungry public figures: Carolyn Spencer (Dana Delany), the head of an anti-smut campaign targeted at "dirty" TV shows, and BJ Cameron (Lewis Black), a Read More

2004
Lewis Black: Unleashed

Actors: Lewis Black

Synopsis: A graduate from the Yale school of drama, Lewis Black is a playwright and comedian who started to gain a significant level of notoriety due to his biting commentaries on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. This video captures the man performing before an approving crowd. Even when he tackles familiar Read More

2003
Dependable People

2001
The Deal

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Grifasi, Larry Pine

1998
Homicide: Life on the Street - Deception

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: When one of drug kingpin Luther Mahoney's "heroin mules" is found dead, Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) mount an elaborate sting operation to bring down Mahoney (Erik Todd Dellums) once and for all. Elsewhere, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) finally patches up his differences with Read More

1997
Mad About You: Le Sex Show

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) are anxious to have sex for the first time since baby Mabel's birth. Alas, even with the therapeutic assistance of Joan Golfinos (Suzie Plakson), the magic seems to be elusive. This episode is dedicated to former Mad About You regular George O. Petrie Read More

1997
The Night We Never Met

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Justine Bateman

Synopsis: Two people fall in love without meeting -- and discover a wealth of complications when they try to get together -- in this romantic comedy. Even though he's about to be married, Brian McVeigh (Kevin Anderson) doesn't want to give up his old apartment, where he can swill beer, scarf pizza, and be Read More

1993
The Hard Way

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra, Penny Marshall, LL Cool J, John Capodice

Synopsis: Action film director John Badham bites the hand that feeds him in this action movie spoof that features ribbing of pretty-boy Hollywood action stars by Michael J. Fox and a parody of colorful, hair-trigger James Woods types by the man himself. Woods plays New York homicide detective John Moss, who Read More

3/8/91
Law & Order: Aria

Synopsis: A young aspiring actress is killed by a lethal drug overdose. At first glance, it seems the girl was driven to her death by her mother, the proverbial "stage mom from hell." But as the detectives and the D.A.'s office pursue the investigation, it becomes painfully clear that both mother and Read More

1991
Jacob's Ladder

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Ving Rhames, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993).
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in Vietnam who undergoes a traumatic experience on the Read More

11/2/90
Hannah and Her Sisters

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah (Mia Farrow) regularly meets with her sisters Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey) to discuss the week's events. It's what they don't always tell Read More

2/7/86