Rick Shapiro

Rick Shapiro born April 13 1959 is a Los Angelesbased comedian and actor He started his career in the early 1980s as a comedian at Catch A Rising Star on Broadway Besides performing regularly on stage throughout the 1990s he acted and starred in numerous films by Louis CK including Tomorrow Night Additionally he portrayed the reoccurring character Angry Poet in Late Night with Conan OBrien In 1998 Shapiro released his first comedy CD called Unconditional Love which Billboard called hardedged and uncompromising In the 2000s he performed standup comedy nationally and internationally debuting a oneman show in 2007 in the Edinburgh Festival and touring Australia in 2009 He had his first video game appearance in 2008 portraying the character Mason Waylon on the radio station PLR in Grand Theft Auto IV a guest on a talk show who eventually drills holes in the heads of the two other guests In 201415 he appeared in the role of Marc Marons eccentric neighbor Bernie in the IFC comedy series Maron In film his roles include Top Five by Chris Rock portraying TRick in the movie Project X and acting in the German comedy Timeless His known TV role is as Jerry in Lucky Louie by Louis CK on HBO Additionally he appears in a scene originally filmed for the pilot of Louie His first book Unfiltered containing over 200 previously unreleased writings was released in 2012 along with his second CD Catalyst for Change In 2013 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease