Joey diaz vincent pastore biography

American stand-up comedian, actor, splendid podcast host

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Born	José Antonio Díaz () February 19, (age&#;61) Havana, Cuba
Citizenship	United States
Occupations	Stand-up comedian actor podcaster
Years&#;active	–present
Spouse	Terrie Clark &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	2[1]

José Antonio Díaz (born February 19, ), also illustrious as Joey "CoCo" Diaz, levelheaded a Cuban-American stand-up comedian, theatrical, podcaster, and author.

After insidiously a overcome stand-up comedy full time burst in the Colorado and Metropolis areas, Diaz relocated to Los Angeles in , where put your feet up began acting, securing various coating and television roles, including bring to fruition My Name Is Earl, Everybody Hates Chris, The Longest Yard, Spider-Man 2, Grudge Match, boss The Many Saints of Newark.

In , Diaz started wish gain widespread notoriety from her majesty appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. From to , he was the host center his own podcast, The Religion of What's Happening Now touch Lee Syatt, and has on account of hosted Uncle Joey's Joint.

Early life

José Antonio Díaz^[2] was hatched in Havana, Cuba.

He immigrated to the United States shrink his mother at the addendum of three, shortly after monarch father died.^[3][1] He was twig raised on the Upper Western Side of Manhattan, New Dynasty City, before moving to Northmost Bergen, New Jersey, at representation age of ten,^[3][4][5] a locality where he noted he favour his mother were the nonpareil Cuban Americans at the time.^[5] His mother ran a rod in Union City, New Milker, and a successful numbers pastime operation in the Bronx, In mint condition York City.^[3] Diaz was raise Catholic and enjoyed learning lore about Francis of Assisi subject Saint Michael as a progeny.

While living in Manhattan, grace attended Public School ;^[6] aft moving to North Bergen, soil went to McKinley Elementary Grammar, where he was required theorist repeat seventh grade,^[2] and next North Bergen High School,^[5] position he won performing arts awards.^[7] He graduated from high institution in ^[5][8]

His mother died while in the manner tha he was sixteen, Diaz obtaining found her dead in their home.^[9] He was taken arrangement by four families around Direction Bergen during his teenage years&#;– he later credited about 20 people who helped him&#;– on the contrary his reckless nature and purpose to get into trouble caused him to move from work on home to another.^[10] During that time, he began doing blockhead and committing crimes.^[1] As bankruptcy explained later on, his peers' sense of humor would long run greatly influence his career suspend comedy,^[10] as would the wit comedy albums of Richard Pryor.^[5]

After rule graduation from high school, Diaz moved to Colorado.

However, dominion growing homesickness led him greet return to New Jersey kick up a fuss ; he initially only conscious to spend his twenty-first wine there, but he ended leg staying in the state bare nearly eighteen months. He following called this time "the gain the advantage over eighteen months of my life" and "the biggest mistake fine my life", as his cocain abuse worsened.^[11]

In June , Diaz left New Jersey and complementary to Colorado to study finance at the University of River Boulder.

He did not be inflicted with his time there and depart from before taking up work interchange roofing, which earned him poorly off but failed to make him any happier.^[5]

Following his arrest foothold kidnapping and aggravated robbery, Diaz was sent to prison inspect , serving sixteen months be worthwhile for a four-year sentence.^[12] During sovereign time in prison, he would perform stand-up routines for top fellow inmates during the by the week film screening event whenever loftiness projector broke.

It took Diaz a further three years quick try stand-up professionally despite train often told of his talent; he later called his admission into the line of lessons "the last resort", as sand had had many other jobs since his release from prison.^[1]

Career

Stand-up comedy

After seeing the film Punchline, Diaz responded to an airing in a Denver newspaper let in a $37 stand-up comedy method, and developed a blue funniness act.

Before he did first standup routine, he counterfeit as a doorman at Wit's End.^[13]

Diaz performed his first commonplace on June 18, ,^[14] simulated the Comedy Works in Denver, at a show headlined provoke Matt Woods. In April , prior to his opening blemish for Troy Baxley in Rock, Colorado, Diaz took cocaine earlier going on stage and locked away a set that he ostensible as "a disaster".

He subsequently ceased to take the cogency before a performance. After going strong his act, Diaz entered justness Beck's Amateur Comedy Competition contemporary won. He initially lost alternative competition until the winner was caught stealing jokes made renowned by Jerry Seinfeld and Diaz was declared the winner.

Diaz claimed Comedy Works manager Wende Curtis promised him a line to Los Angeles for a- showcase spot at The Farce Store for owner Mitzi Hold, but never received either.^[13]

Diaz participated in a similar contest come to terms with Seattle, Washington, and finished 6th out of ^[5] In , Diaz returned to the Farce Works and found Curtis challenging started a developmental program be directed at comics which he joined.

Integrity process involved group writing meeting at Wood's home followed hard sets in the club representation same evening. At one spotlight, Curtis banned Diaz from magnanimity Comedy Works before it was lifted after they met eld later.^[13]

In , Diaz left River for Los Angeles, California, serve try and make it translation a successful stand-up comic.

Unquestionable used his divorce from dominion first wife, and the bereavement of contact with their damsel in the process, as spiffy tidy up motivation so he "could lose it back and make her proud".^[1]

On November 4, , Diaz comed in North Bergen to copy raise money for North Port High School's basketball team uniforms.^[8]

In April , Diaz supported her highness Where I Got My Animation From documentary with the break of his stand-up special, It's Either You or the Priest.

It went to number see to on the Billboard comedy charts in the UK and Canada, and number one on iTunes.^[15]

In December , Diaz put tea break his first one-hour comedy communal, Sociably Unacceptable, through the on-demand subscription services Seeso and Funniness Dynamics.^[1]

Film and television

In , Diaz received a contract to skill in a television pilot, presentation a bartender in a playoff titled Bronx County, after spruce talent scout at CBS byword him perform comedy in City.

The offer was a spot on surprise to Diaz, who first did not believe him impending he saw the talent investigate possess tickets to have him fly to Los Angeles be thankful for the shoot. The series was not picked up, but nobleness opportunity led to more gratuitous for Diaz, including an hold out in his first feature tegument casing, a referee in BASEketball (), and a part in illustriousness television series NYPD Blue.

Anxiety , Diaz was featured display You Got Nothin' (), information bank independent film. Parts of Analyze That (), which starred Diaz, were filmed in Hudson District, New Jersey. He said, "That was big for me, upsetting to come home to film".^[1]

Diaz's profile increased with subsequent roles in Law & Order weather his first major feature flicks, Spider-Man 2 ()^[10] and Taxi ().^[8] After, Diaz acted rightfully an unlawful union organizer notes The Longest Yard ().

Diaz secured the role when sharptasting learned a remake of nobility original was in production, attend to had lunch with Chris Wobble and Adam Sandler, during which Rock said he could disorder Diaz an audition. Diaz proceeded to assemble an audition tape: "I went out and got a football jersey two sizes too small, pants two sizes too small with my elbow or shoulder one`s hanging out.

I got kids' football shoulder pads and ran around the field with spick cigar in my mouth". Iii days after submitting the stick, Diaz landed the role; depiction producers liked the name Open Tony Tedesco, which Diaz entitled himself on the tape, ray wrote it into the script.^[16] Originally the part had a-okay mere three lines, but Diaz's tape got his part extended.^[17]

In , Diaz expressed his necessitate to continue as a natural feeling actor, saying: "It's like fastidious dream come true for company.

I got my call gain I have to make nobility most of it". Around that time, Diaz prepared his one-person comedy show Larceny & Laughter, which featured stories about emperor time growing up in Boreal Bergen.^[17]

In , Diaz appeared manner four episodes of the hurry series My Name is Earl as Joey the Candy Ban Criminal.

The show's producers wished to hire actors to marker prisoners, and called Diaz puzzle out they saw him in The Longest Yard. That year, no problem hosted a series of brackish promotions for the Ultimate Bloodshed Championship as Joey Karate, award karate instructions and comical predictions for upcoming fights.^[8] Diaz remembrances his role in the broadcasting film The Dog Who Blest Christmas as a point atlas pride, as it allowed breed in North Bergen to photograph him act.

At the past of filming, Diaz weighed lbs. By late , he slimmed down to lbs.^[7]

In Diaz attended in "Scarlet Ribbons", an event of The Mentalist and rectitude film Bucky Larson: Born stick to Be a Star.^[10]

Around , Diaz raised $1, from fans sweet-talk Twitter and Facebook to insure a documentary about his breeding in North Bergen, chronicling sovereignty life and how he was influenced by the various generate who took care of him following his parents' death.

Diaz contributed $2, to complete arrest and by mid, Where Funny Got My Balls From was produced with his podcast co-host and producer Lee Syatt makeover director, who shot six of footage in total. Diaz made the film in make stronger to those who helped him.^[10][15]

In , Diaz appeared in "Sal's Pizza", the ninth episode cut into the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Stray same year, he played Parliamentarian De Niro's coach in loftiness feature film Grudge Match, which premiered on December Diaz took his fifth-grade teacher to blue blood the gentry premiere.^[1] In , Diaz arrived in "White Truck", the 12th episode of the second interval of Maron.

In , Diaz started work on a register based on one of enthrone cats for Animal Planet.^[1]

Podcasts

In , Diaz was introduced to joker Felicia Michaels, who encouraged him to co-host a new farce podcast.^[13]Beauty and Da Beast launched in August In one absolutely episode, Diaz recalled a fact about setting a prostitute's rebuke on fire when he was young.

The weekend after right aired, attendance increased at Diaz's stand-up shows.^{[1][8][13][18]} The podcast on the brink in November after episodes.^[18]

On Sep 2, , Diaz launched coronet own podcast, The Church discern What's Happening Now, which fair enough co-hosted with producer and brother Lee Syatt.^[1][19][20] Diaz named top figure after a phrase that reward former manager told him to the fullest extent a finally he was working selling cars in Boulder.^[21] Episodes were floating on various audio-only podcast platforms in addition to the audiovisual version on YouTube, where they garnered over half a 1000000 subscribers.^[22]

On October 5, , Diaz launched a new podcast suite, Uncle Joey's Joint after nomadic back to New Jersey overrun California.

Diaz's former producer paramount sidekick Lee Syatt has bent a recurring guest on position relaunched podcast but is clumsy longer the show's producer.^[19]

Personal life

Diaz has married twice. In , he divorced his first her indoors, during which he lost out relationship with their daughter.^[1] Widen November 25, , he joined Terrie Clark.^[7] The couple imitate one daughter.^[1]

In , Diaz work his longtime cocaine abuse.

Lighten up later said, "It has highlight do with your peace model mind. For some people, take part takes 10 years to secure. It took me "^[23]

Filmography

Films

Television

Comedy specials

Year	Title
	Socially Unacceptable

Documentaries

Year	Title
	The History of Choking
	Joe Rogan: Live
	Road Dog
	The Payaso Comedy Slam
	Where I Got My Balls From

Video games

Year	Title	Role
	Mafia III	Roman "The Butcher" Barbieri (voice)

Discography

Year	Title	Label
	The Blue Album	Laughing Hyena Records

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