RICK SHAPIRO
TV Highlights: Lucky Louie
Why He's On The Site: Rick Shapiro is an underground comedy icon in NYC...Any working NYC comedian has a Rick Shapiro story due to his erratic behavior and eccentric lifestyle...Shapiro has battled drug addictions throughout his entire life and it's great to see him cleaned up...His on stage act is an intense, borderline insane rant about today's society...He is known for putting on 2 hour long shows in small NYC rooms...More often that not audiences simply don't get him. But when he's on and the crowd is open minded, Shapiro KILLS...Shapiro truly is a misunderstood genius
Official Bio: Rick is a staple of the NYC and LA Underground Comedy Scene. His life story is featured in "Getting It Right," a book by award-winning author Adrian LeBlanc, which will be published by Random House this summer. Rick has been a featured performer on "Conan O'Brien," "Tough Crowd" and "Howard Stern." For Conan, he created Richard Black and appeared as himself doing angry rant poetry and sketches. Rick has also performed on "Law and Order," "Deadline" and "Saturday Night Live." Commercially, he created a character for Nintendo, which won the most popular character contest voted by Nintendo users. On stage he has performed on the popular "Tony and Tina's Wedding," and performed in "Edmond," directed by David Mamet. Rick has also performed various original one man shows "Repeat Offender," "Unleashed," "Torment at the Flea Theater," "The Bowery" and "Melrose Improv." He also performs live regularly at the "Sidewalk Cafe" in NYC.
