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Rob Schneider has publicly vowed to never work with Mel Gibson. In another full page ad in Variety, Schneider who’s “1/2 Jew” said he wouldn’t even cast Mel Gibson as the Nazi leader in his prison comedy. Way to go Rob, you managed to work in a plug for your new movie.
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When Rob Schneider set out to make another Deuce Bigelow movie, he had no foresight into the cinematic culture that Wedding Crashers would unleash this summer. Although R-rated comedies are once again cool, the SNL alumnus had to previously fight for his vision, even moving the franchise to a different studio.
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Scraping together enough cash to make it back to the U.S., Schneider returned to San Francisco and renewed his determination to make it as a comedian. He quickly became active on the comedy circuit, opening for such luminaries as Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, and Dana Carvey. Schneider got his big break in 1990, when he was discovered by SNL producer Lorne Michaels while performing on an HBO comedy special.
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Schneider began appearing in films with the sports comedy "Necessary Roughness" (1991), playing a sportscaster in the Richard Laymer mode. He was more widely seen as a tip-mongering bellboy in the blockbuster sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" (1992) . After more substantial parts in two lesser films of 1993 ("Surf Ninjas" and "The Beverly Hillbillies"), Schneider fared well in an uncredited bit in "Demolition Man" (1993), as a wimpy cop of the future, and was a similarly hapless sidekick to Sylvester Stallone in "Judge Dredd" (1995). He was teamed with Bebe Neuwirth as a vaguely anthropomorphic character in "The Adventures of Pinocchio" and then played a typically unpleasant crew member in the lame comedy "Down Periscope" (both 1996).
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Heck, Schneider's now lapped such former SNL bright-lights as Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, and David Spade. Is there anyone alive who would argue that Rob Schneider -- the "makin' copies!" guy -- is a more talented comedian than Jon Lovitz? So how is it then that Rob Schneider is on his third straight Rob Schneider film, and Lovitz is the fifth-billed guy in Rat Race? Does that make sense to anyone?
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Schneider's directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, is scheduled to be released in 2008. In the film, he stars as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams. He's sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration. On June 29, 2006, Schneider collapsed from heat exhaustion and food poisoning on the set of Big Stan, but he returned to work the following day.
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