Rob Corddry
{{short description|American actor and comedian}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rob Corddry
| image = Rob Corddry by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Corddry at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
| birth_name = Robert William Corddry
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|2|4}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/rob-corddry-197806/|title=Rob Corddry|work=TV Guide|access-date=2015-03-22}}
| birth_place = Weymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
| relations = Nate Corddry (brother)
| education = University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA)
| occupation = Actor, comedian
| years_active = 1998–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Sandra Corddry|2002}}
| children = 2
}}
Robert William Corddry (born February 4, 1971) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2002–2006) and for his starring role in the film Hot Tub Time Machine. He is the creator and star of Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital and has been awarded four Primetime Emmy Awards.{{cite web|title=Childrens Hospital|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/childrens-hospital|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|access-date=24 November 2018}} He previously starred in the HBO series Ballers and the CBS comedy The Unicorn.
Early life and education
Corddry was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He is the son of Robin (née Sullivan) and Steven Corddry, who was a Massachusetts Port Authority official.{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/05/01/a_bald_liar/ | work=The Boston Globe | first=Paul | last=Rogers | title=A Bald Liar | date=May 1, 2005}}[http://www.umassmag.com/Fall_2005/Class_Clown_940.html UMass Magazine Online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528062958/http://www.umassmag.com/Fall_2005/Class_Clown_940.html |date=May 28, 2012 }} He is the older brother of actor Nate Corddry. Corddry and his brother are both Eagle Scouts from Troop 19, located in Weymouth.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-25-la-et-performance25-2010mar25-story.html|title=The Performance: Rob Corddry|last=Ordoña|first=Michael|date=March 25, 2010|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2010-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026033556/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/25/entertainment/la-et-performance25-2010mar25|archive-date=October 26, 2012|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2010/03/25/rob_cordry_actor.php|title=Rob Corddry, Hot Tub Time Machine|last=Del Signore|first=John|date=March 25, 2010|publisher=Gothamist|access-date=2010-08-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709051231/http://gothamist.com/2010/03/25/rob_cordry_actor.php|archive-date=July 9, 2010|df=mdy-all}}
After graduating from Weymouth North High School (1989), Corddry went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1989–93). According to an interview in the UMass Amherst alumni magazine, Corddry initially planned to major in journalism but changed his major to English. By his second year, he focused much of his attention on Drama classes and plays including Torch Song Trilogy, Ten Little Indians, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet, and Reckless. While at UMass, Corddry pledged the Theta chapter of Theta Chi fraternity.
In January 1994, Corddry moved to New York City. His early paying jobs included working as a security guard at The Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite episode | title = Anytime with Bob Kushell feat. Rob Corddry | series = Anytime with Bob Kushell | airdate = 2009-02-12 | season = 1 | number = 9}} and handing out menus for a Mexican restaurant. He eventually landed acting jobs, including a year-long tour with the National Shakespeare Company. He trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, performing regularly as a member of the sketch comedy group "The Naked Babies" (with John Ross Bowie, Brian Huskey, and Seth Morris); and he spent two years with the sketch comedy group "Third Rail Comedy". Corddry's first notable television appearances were on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade (1998–2000).
Career
=''The Daily Show''=
In spring 2002, he accepted an audition for The Daily Show. His pieces for The Daily Show frequently included references to Boston, Massachusetts, which he considers to be his hometown. On October 4, 2005, his younger brother Nate Corddry made his first appearance as a Daily Show correspondent. On January 12, 2006, Corddry's wife Sandra appeared with him on a Daily Show segment; they welcomed their first child, daughter Sloane Sullivan Corddry, on July 3, 2006. On February 9, 2006 Corddry hosted an episode of The Daily Show due to the absence of Jon Stewart (jokingly because the show's regular host was "in the shop", but in fact because of the birth of Stewart's second child).{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}
On August 15, 2006, Corddry said "I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off", and then on August 21, 2006, Stewart remarked that Corddry's last day on The Daily Show would be August 24, 2006. Corddry appeared throughout the week, once filing a report from inside a toilet bowl supposedly on board an aircraft transporting John Mark Karr, and another dressed up in a 1970s fashion; Stewart remarked, "It's his last week, and really, we're trying to come up with terrible things for him to have to do."
During that last show on August 24, Corddry aired a self-produced tribute to his four years on the show, going out, as Stewart said, with a "poop joke".
Stewart: That was a very fitting tribute, Rob. We're gonna miss you on the show. Corddry: Why thank you, Jon. But wherever I go and whatever I do, there'll always be a part of me here.
Stewart: Wow...that's a really sweet thing to say.
Corddry: No no no, I'm not kidding. It's in the second floor men's room, actually. That's what you get for not giving me a proper send off.
Stewart: You're really gonna go out on a poop joke?
Corddry: I have to stay true to myself, Jon.
Corddry cites Stewart as a profound influence on his comedy, crediting Stewart for teaching him how to focus on an idea in order to find the humor in it, and says that his The Daily Show pedigree earned him the clout to make Childrens Hospital.Corddry, Rob (July 27, 2015). "Goodbye, and Goodnight". TV Guide. p. 18.
Among the projects Corddry worked on after leaving The Daily Show was The Winner, a 2007 TV series.{{cite news |url=http://www.tvsquad.com/category/the-daily-show|title=Television News, Reviews and TV Show Recaps |work=The Huffington Post|access-date=February 14, 2015}}
Corddry has since made appearances on the show, both as a guest and as a correspondent.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
=Film roles=
Corddry played the title character in Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2004) and Mac, Ben Stiller's character's best friend in The Heartbreak Kid. He has also made appearances in Old School (2003, credited as Robert Corddry), Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Failure to Launch and The Ten.
He also appeared in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay as Ron Fox, a neurotic and racist agent with the United States Department of Homeland Security, in W. as Ari Fleischer, and also in What Happens in Vegas.{{cite news | last=Jacks | first=Brian | url=http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/04/09/exclusive-rob-corddry-lands-role-of-press-secretary-ari-fleischer-in-oliver-stones-w/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410223904/http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/04/09/exclusive-rob-corddry-lands-role-of-press-secretary-ari-fleischer-in-oliver-stones-w/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 10, 2008 | title=EXCLUSIVE: Rob Corddry Lands Role Of Press Secretary Ari Fleischer In Oliver Stone's 'W' | publisher=MTV | date=April 9, 2008 | access-date=2008-04-09 }} In 2010, he co-starred in the John Cusack film Hot Tub Time Machine and in 2013 he co-starred in Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies as the zombie M.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a457986/rob-corddry-on-warm-bodies-it-was-easy-playing-a-zombie.html|title=Rob Corddry: 'Warm Bodies role was easy'|website=Digital Spy |date=February 11, 2013|access-date=February 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213155256/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a457986/rob-corddry-on-warm-bodies-it-was-easy-playing-a-zombie.html|archive-date=February 13, 2013|url-status=live}}
=Other work=
Corddry hosted the 10th annual Webby Awards ceremony on June 12, 2006. He starred as the main character in the Fox mid-season comedy The Winner from March 4, 2007 until the series' cancellation.{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/devwatch.aspx?id=winner|title=Shows A-Z - TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource|work=thefutoncritic.com|access-date=February 14, 2015}} He described the show to Stuff Magazine as "sort of like a fucked-up Wonder Years."
Corddry has appeared in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode entitled "The Seder" as a sex offender who moves into Larry David's neighborhood. He also appeared in two episodes of Fox's Arrested Development as Moses Taylor, an actor who plays "Frank Wrench", an obsessively by-the-books detective on a fictional television series Wrench. Corddry has also done some voice work as Gordon the animated Devil on Cartoon Network's Weighty Decisions (alongside fellow Daily Show correspondent Ed Helms). He also appeared in a commercial for Cartoon Network's Ed, Edd n Eddy series and a 2001 promotional ad as an anger management therapist to the Townsville Villains of the cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls.
Corddry's voice appears in the History Channel production World War II in HD.[http://www.history.com/content/wwii-in-hd WWII in HD] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028001557/http://www.history.com/content/wwii-in-hd/ |date=October 28, 2009 }} He is the voice of World War II soldier and jazz musician Roscoe "Rockie" Blunt.{{cite web|url=http://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/collections-old/rockie-authored.html|title=Jazz History Database - A Digital Museum of Jazz History|website=www.jazzhistorydatabase.com}}
Corddry wrote, directed, and starred in the web series Childrens Hospital for The WB on its online network at TheWB.com.{{cite web | title = Children's Hospital Video Series Debuts With Stephen Colbert and Rob Corddry | publisher = Comedy.com | url = http://www.comedy.com/blog/2008/10/16/childrens-hospital-video-series-debuts-with-stephen-colbert-and-rob-corddry/ | date = October 16, 2008 | access-date = 2009-03-10 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090307060811/http://www.comedy.com/blog/2008/10/16/childrens-hospital-video-series-debuts-with-stephen-colbert-and-rob-corddry/ | archive-date = March 7, 2009 | df = mdy-all }} After talks fell through with Comedy Central, Turner's Adult Swim picked up the series and began airing new episodes August 22, 2010.{{cite web | title= Web Series Childrens Hospital Jumping to Adult Swim | url= http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/365915-Web_Series_Children_s_Hospital_Jumping_To_Adult_Swim.php?rssid=20065&q=rob+corddry | date= October 21, 2009 | access-date= 2009-10-21 | publisher= Broadcasting and Cable | author= Alex Weprin | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120930090505/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/365915-Web_Series_Children_s_Hospital_Jumping_To_Adult_Swim.php?rssid=20065&q=rob+corddry | archive-date= September 30, 2012 | url-status= live }}
On March 29, 2010, he was a co-guest host of WWE Raw with fellow cast member Clark Duke from Hot Tub Time Machine.{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/special/allspecialguesthosts/upcomingguesthosts|title=Upcoming Raw guest stars}}
Corddry played an important role in proliferating Justin Halpern's Twitter account Shit My Dad Says. An early enthusiast of the quotes made by Halpern's father, Rob tweeted a link to Shit My Dad Says which "jump-started" the phenomenon, helping expose Halpern's Twitter feed to a larger audience.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1990838,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523162334/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1990838,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 23, 2010|title=Justin Halpern, Author of Sh*t My Dad Says|last=Webley|first=Kayla|date=May 21, 2010|magazine=Time|access-date=June 28, 2010}}
Corddry also has starred in three commercials for the Holiday Inn in both 2010 and 2011. He appeared in three episodes of Community playing a lawyer, Alan Connor, an old acquaintance of Jeff Winger, who was also a lawyer.
In August 2011, Corddry appeared on episode 29 of the podcast Back to Work, distributed by the 5by5 podcast network, where he was interviewed by Merlin Mann about his writing and acting career.
In 2012, Corddry began a recurring role on the third season of Happy Endings, playing "The Car Czar", Jane's new boss at the car dealership.{{cite web|url=http://tvline.com/2012/08/09/happy-endings-rob-corddry/|title=Happy Endings Exclusive: Rob Corddry Cast as Jane's New [Spoiler]|first=Michael|last=Ausiello|date=August 10, 2012}} He also had a recurring role on the short-lived FOX series Ben and Kate, as Buddy, the boorish owner of the bar where Kate and BJ work, also BJ's on-and-off boyfriend.
As recently as October 2013, Rob appeared again as a recurring guest on The Jason Ellis Show. A talk show featured exclusively on SiriusXm Satellite Radio, Corddry accepted an invitation to host his own show airing on the soon to be launched "Jason Ellis Channel".
From 2015 to 2019, he starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Ballers.
He was the subject of episode #16, titled Rob, of the podcast Heavyweight by Jonathan Goldstein.{{cite web|url=https://www.gimletmedia.com/heavyweight/16-rob#episode-player|title=#16 Rob by Heavyweight|website=Gimlet Media}}
On December 3, 2019, it was revealed that Corddry would be a host of the revived Top Gear America, which debuted on Motor Trend in January 2021.{{Cite web |date=December 3, 2019 |title=REVEALED! Meet the Hosts of Top Gear America |url=https://www.motortrend.com/news/top-gear-america-hosts-revealed/ |website=Motor Trend}}
Corddry has also appeared in the HBO Max series Bookie.
Filmography
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=Film=
class = "wikitable sortable"
|+Rob Corddry film work |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable" | Notes |
---|
2003
| Warren | |
2004
| Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story | Bobby Dukes | |
rowspan="4" | 2006
| Kyle | |
Unaccompanied Minors
| Sam Davenport | |
Failure to Launch
| Gun Salesman | |
Arthur and the Invisibles
| Seides | Voice |
rowspan="4" | 2007
| The Ten | Duane Rosenblum | |
The Heartbreak Kid
| Mac | |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
| Jim The Protester | |
Blades of Glory
| Bryce | |
rowspan="5" | 2008
| Jeff "Hater" Lewis | |
W.
| |
Semi-Pro
| Kyle | |
Lower Learning
| Principal Harper Billings | |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
| Ron Fox | |
rowspan="2" | 2009
| Terry | |
Taking Chances
| Mayor Cleveland Fishback | |
rowspan="3" | 2010
| Lou Dorchen | |
Operation: Endgame
| Chariot | |
Megamind
| Metro City Citizen | Uncredited voice cameo |
rowspan="2" | 2011
| Gary | |
Butter
| Ethan Emmett | |
2012
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Warren | |
rowspan="7" | 2013
| Jack | |
Escape from Planet Earth
| Gary Supernova | Voice |
Warm Bodies
| M / Marcus | |
In a World...
| Moe | |
Pain & Gain
| John Mese | |
Rapture-Palooza
| Mr. Walt House | |
The Way, Way Back
| Kip | |
rowspan="3" | 2014
| Jason Nash Is Married | Dan Morrison | |
Muppets Most Wanted
| First AD | |
Sex Tape
| Robby Thompson | |
2015
| Lou Dorchen | |
2016
| Jeremy Parker | |
rowspan="3" | 2017
| Quincy | |
Shimmer Lake
| Kurt Biltmore | |
The Layover
| Principal Stan Moss | |
2018
| Dog Days | Kurt | |
2019
| Benjamin | Dr. Ed | |
rowspan="2" | 2020
| Bob Howard | |
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
| Himself | |
rowspan="3" | 2023
| Pat | |
The Donor Party
| Geoff | |
The Senior
| Sam Weston | |
2024
|Jack Bellin | |
=Television=
class = "wikitable sortable"
|+Rob Corddry television work |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class = "unsortable" | Notes |
---|
1998–2000
| Various | 6 episodes |
2002–2006
| Correspondent | 249 episodes |
2004
| O'Grady | The Bob | Voice; Episode: "Vacation" |
2005
| Sunday Pants | Gordon the Devil (voice) | "Weighty Decisions" segments |
2005–2017
| Various voices | 3 episodes |
2006
| Rick Leftowitz | Episode: "The Seder" |
2006
| Moses Taylor | 2 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 2007
| MADtv | Johnny | 1 episode |
The Winner
| Glen Abbott | 6 episodes |
2008–2016
| Dr. Blake Downs, Cutter Spindell, Rory Spindell | 77 episodes; also creator, director, writer and executive producer |
2008
| Doctor, Vet | Voices; Episode: "Bee Patient" |
rowspan="2" | 2009
| Gary | Episode: "Brandix Corporate Retreat" |
Law & Order
| Jim Leary | Episode: "Human Flesh Search Engine" |
2010–2014
| Alan Connor | 3 episodes |
rowspan="4" | 2011
| Little in Common | Dennis Weller | Pilot |
Running Wilde
| Jack Gray | Episode: "Jack's Back" |
Glenn Martin, DDS
| Randy | Voice; Episode: "Videogame Wizard" |
The Life & Times of Tim
| Sausage Salesman (voice) | Voice; Episode: "The Sausage Salesman" |
2012
| Ben Jennings | Voice; Episode: "Livin' on a Prayer" |
2012–2013
| Lon "The Car Czar" Sarofsky | 3 episodes |
2012
| Agent Coyote Daniels | Episode: "Robot Town" |
2012–2013
| Buddy | 3 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 2013
| Spy | Tim | Pilot |
Burning Love
| Lorenzo Blimperson | Episode: "Puppet Show" |
2013–2015
| {{N/A}} | Co-creator, writer and executive producer |
rowspan="4" | 2014
| Sensei Rick | Episode: "Foxed Lunch" |
Hawaii Five-0
| Tony Gibson | Episode: "Ho'i Hou" |
Robot Chicken
| Various Voices | 2 episodes |
Comedy Bang! Bang!
| Himself | Episode: "Rob Corddry Wears Tan Dress Shoes & Red Socks" |
2015–2019
| Ballers | Joe Krutel | Series regular; 47 episodes |
rowspan="3" | 2016
| Teachers | Sam | Episode: "Hall of Shame" |
Animals
| Earring | Voice; Episode: "Rats." |
Workaholics
| Eric | Episode: "The Nuttin' Professor" |
2016–2018
| Billy DiMeo | 3 episodes |
2016
| {{N/A}} | Television special; executive producer |
2017–2018
| George Washington, Joseph A. Califano Jr. | 2 episodes |
2017–2024
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Various | 4 episodes |
2017
| Do You Want to See a Dead Body? | rowspan="3" | Himself | Episode: "A Body and a Mean Dog" |
2018
| Wrecked | Episode: "Ballers" |
rowspan="4" | 2019
| Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television | Episode: "For Your Inconsideration" |
American Princess
| Bacon | Episode: "Down There" |
What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage
| Himself | Episode: "Family" |
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
| Inspector Suggs | Episode: "Good Todd Hunting" |
2019–2021
| Forrest | Series regular |
rowspan="2" | 2020
| Blake Downs | 2 episodes; also creator, writer, executive producer |
Dummy
| Phil Goldman | Episode: "Passive Protagonist" |
2020–2021
| The Old King | Voice; 5 episodes |
2021–2022
| Himself / Host |
2022
| Physical |Gary |Episode: "Don't You Go Far" |
rowspan="3" | 2023
| History of the World, Part II | 2 episodes |
The Goldbergs
| George Myerson | Episode: "Bev to the Future" |
This Fool
| Sergeant | 2 episodes |
2023–2025
| Walt Dinty | 10 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 2024
| Andrew Michaels | Episode: "Not Solved Yet" |
Hit-Monkey
|Buddy |Voice; 5 episodes |
=Video games=
class = "wikitable sortable"
|+Rob Corddry video game work |
Year
! Title ! Role |
---|
2010
| Billy Knight |
=Music videos=
- Ben Folds Five's "Do It Anyway" (2012): Plays sound engineer
Awards and honors
In 2009, Corddry was nominated for a Streamy Award Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series for Children's Hospital; in 2011, it won Best Sketch/Alternative Comedy in the first annual Comedy Awards.
References
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External links
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{{Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series}}
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