Rick Shapiro
Rick Shapiro (born April 13, 1959) is a Los Angeles-based 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 re-occurring character "Angry Poet" in Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 1998, Shapiro released his first comedy CD called Unconditional Love, which Billboard called "hard-edged and uncompromising".
In the 2000s, he performed stand-up comedy nationally and internationally, debuting a one-man 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 2014–15, he appeared in the role of Marc Maron's eccentric neighbor, Bernie, in the IFC comedy series Maron.
In film, his roles include Top Five by Chris Rock, portraying T-Rick in the movie Project X, and acting in the German comedy Timeless. His known TV role is as Jerry in Lucky Louie by Louis C.K. 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 Parkinson's disease.
Acting
Movie
Project X
as T-Rick
2012
TV
2 Broke Girls
as Guy Behind the Glass
2011
TV
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Manny
2001
TV
The League
as Bum
2009
Movie
Pootie Tang
as Shakey
2001
TV
Horace and Pete
as Rick
2016
TV
Lucky Louie
as Jerry
2006
TV
Maron
as Bernie
2013
Movie
True Love
as Kevin
1989
Movie
Shock Value
as Sol
2014
Movie
Tomorrow Night
as Tina
1998
TV
The Green Room with Paul Provenza
as Self
2010
Movie
Pure Danger
as Dice
1996
Movie
Ice Cream
as Man's Brother
1993
Movie
The Outdoorsman
as Gerard
2017
Movie
Highjacker
as Highjacker
1998
Movie
Timeless
as State’s Attorney / Repairman / Secret Agent / Paratrooper
2016
Movie
Joey
1986
Movie
Brunch
1998
Movie
Caesar's Salad
as Richard Black (Poet)
1990
Movie
Prison Pit: Book One
as Prison Guards
2014
TV
Deadline
as Pable Salcedo
2000
Movie
Duvall Et Al
as Duvall
2018