Rick Shapiro

Rick Shapiro is an American comedian and actor who began performing at Catch A Rising Star on Broadway in the early 1980s after growing up in New Jersey and New York City. Through the 1990s he appeared in several films by Louis C.K., among them Ice Cream and Tomorrow Night, and played the recurring Angry Poet on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He released his first comedy CD, Unconditional Love, in 1998, which Billboard called hard-edged and uncompromising. Later screen work includes the role of T-Rick in Project X (2012), Jerry in Louis C.K.'s HBO series Lucky Louie, and Bernie in the IFC comedy Maron. He performs stand-up internationally, brought a one-man show to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007, appeared in Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008, and published a book, Unfiltered, in 2012.