Rob Schneider

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For the musician, see Robert Schneider.

Image:RobSchneiderdsc00037.jpg Martin Robert Schneider (born October 31, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor of Jewish and Filipino descent, comedian and screenwriter best known for his lowbrow films.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Career
  - 1.1.1 Feuds with critics
  - 1.1.2 South Park spoof
- 1.2 Personal life
2 Filmography
3 External links

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Biography

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Career

He was a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1990-1994, 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 Deuce Bigalow: 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.

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Feuds with critics

In January 2005, film critic Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said in an article that Deuce Bigalow: European 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."[1]

In August 2005, film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times responded to the ad in his review for Deuce Bigalow: 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." [2] 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."[3] 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."[4]

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South Park spoof

The films in which Schneider is the main character often involve him either being a certain type of person or thing, e.g. a woman in The Hot Chick, or an animal in The 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.

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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 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.

Schneider currently owns a home in San Francisco.

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