Rob Corddry
Rob Corddry
Robert William "Rob" Corddryis an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewartand for his starring role in the comedy film Hot Tub Time Machine. He is also the creator and star of the Adult Swim comedy series Childrens Hospital and won his first and second Emmy Awards in September 2012 and September 2013. Corddry currently co-stars in the HBO series Ballers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth4 February 1971
CityWeymouth, MA
CountryUnited States of America
It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."
I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.
I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.
I want to manufacture a feud.
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"
People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.
I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.
I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.
If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.
The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.
This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.
I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.