Rick Reynolds

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| name = Rick Reynolds

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|12|13}}

| birth_place = Wood Village, Oregon, US

| alma_mater = Portland State University (BS)

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Actor
writer
comedian

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Rick Reynolds (born December 13, 1951){{cite news|last=Podolsky|first=J.D.|date=September 9, 1991|title=Reynolds' Rap|work=People|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115875,00.html|accessdate=February 25, 2010}} is an American comedian known for his one-man shows Only the Truth Is Funny and All Grown Up...and No Place to Go. Only the Truth Is Funny began as a theatrical show and was eventually broadcast on Showtime and nominated for a 1993 Emmy Award for writing.

Early life and education

Reynolds was born in Wood Village, Oregon, a suburb of in Portland. His father drowned when Rick was six months old.{{cite news|last1=Christon|first1=Lawrence|title=COMEDY : Is This America's Next Great Comedian? : What's it take for a stand-up comedian to be 'discovered'? Rick Reynolds should know—this is his second time around|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-14-ca-3745-story.html|access-date=August 8, 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 14, 1990}} His manic depressive mother brought in several stepfathers, who were abusive.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l9QpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6695,4538752&dq=rick-reynolds+oregon&hl=en|title=Life Stories and Laughter|last=Kuchwara|first=Michael|date=June 16, 1991|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Toledo Blade|accessdate=February 25, 2010}} He graduated from Portland State University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science in philosophy.

Career

In 1997, Reynolds starred in the short-lived sitcom Life... and Stuff,{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/06/arts/his-so-called-life-days-of-whine-and-neuroses.html|title=His So-Called Life: Days of Whine and Neuroses|first=Caryn|last=James|date=June 6, 1997}} which he also co-created.{{cite web|work=Variety|title=Review: 'Life and Stuff'|date=June 6, 1997|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/life-and-stuff-3-1200450308/}} Prior to the release of Life... and Stuff Reynolds was quoted at a press conference saying, "If this is canceled, and my whole career has worked toward this point . . .," Reynolds said, letting the thought hang. "Who am I kidding? Is it going to happen again? I'm not a great-looking guy and I'm 45 now. This is it. So, of course, I'll be devastated."{{cite web|title='Life . . . and Stuff' is just awful|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|date=June 5, 1997|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/564503/Life----and-Stuff-is-just-awful.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924004642/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/564503/Life----and-Stuff-is-just-awful.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|work=Desert News}}

Personal life

Reynolds married his first wife attending college. He met his second wife, Lisa, in San Francisco, and married her in 1983. In 1989, Reynolds moved with his family from Hollywood to Petaluma, California, about which Reynolds said "none of my neighbors have written a screenplay." Their son, Cooper, was born in 1991, and Jack was born in 1993. They divorced in 2000.{{cite news|last=Linn|first=Steven|date=November 12, 2009|title=Theater review: Rick Reynolds attempts to amuse|work=San Francisco Chronicle|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/12/DD9F1AIB62.DTL&type=performance|accessdate=February 25, 2010}}

Comedic shows

"Only the Truth Is Funny" (1991)
"All Grown Up ... And No Place to Go" (1995)
"Love, God, Sex (and Other Stuff I Don't Have)" (2009)
"Only the Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life at the Oasis" (2009)

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0721930}}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJjBjoGGaD4 Only the Truth Is Funny] at YouTube
[https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Reynolds/329442397216100 Rick Reynolds Facebook Fan Page]
{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203235749/http://www.churchofrick.com/2005_07_01_churchofrick_archive.html|archivedate=February 3, 2015|date=2005|url=http://www.churchofrick.com/|title=The Church of Rick (Rick Reynolds' blog)}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050308131133/http://www.duckprods.com/projects/onlythetruthisfunny.html Rick Reynolds' Only the Truth Is Funny by producer Robert B. Weide]
[http://www.duckprods.com/projects/rickreynolds/calender911031.html Hollywood Story in Which Truth Plays by Robert Epstein, Los Angeles Times]
[http://www.duckprods.com/projects/rickreynolds/sfchronicle910814.html Reynolds Escapes New York by Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle]