American comedian
Fred Stoller (born March 19, 1958)[ 1] is an American actor, stand-up comedian and author. He is best known for portraying Gerard on Everybody Loves Raymond . He is also the voice of Stanley in the Open Season series , Fred the Squirrel in The Penguins of Madagascar , Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy in WordGirl , Jimbo in Disney Junior 's Mickey and the Roadster Racers and Rusty the monkey wrench on Playhouse Disney 's Handy Manny .
Early life
Stoller was born in New York City and grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn .[ 1] [ 2] He has a sister, Cindy, six years his senior,[ 2] and is Jewish.[ 3] Stoller attended Kingsborough Community College before leaving to pursue comedy full time.[ 4]
Career
Stoller had worked as a stand-up comedian in nightclubs since the early 1980s at the time of his first television appearance, in 1987, when he appeared on Stand-Up America and in 1989 on The Young Comedians Special alongside six other comedians.[ 5] [ 6]
He gained recognition for his frequent appearances as Gerard on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond , Mr. Lowe in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and as Sheldon Singer, the son of Harold Gould 's deli-owning character, on the short-lived sitcom Singer & Sons . He has also made guest appearances on several other TV series. He wrote two episodes of Seinfeld ("The Soup " and the Kramer/chimpanzee subplot of "The Face Painter ").[ 7] He also appeared as Fred in the episode "The Secret Code ".[ 7]
Stoller is also known as the voices of Stanley in the Open Season franchise , Rusty the Monkey Wrench on Handy Manny , Fred the Squirrel in The Penguins of Madagascar , Steve Tree in Oswald , and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy in WordGirl .
In 2012, Stoller published a successful e-book titled My Seinfeld Year , in which he chronicled his experiences after being hired as a new staff writer.[ 8] He has since released a book titled Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star ,[ 9] and a second e-book, Five Minutes to Kill: How the HBO Young Comedians Special Changed the Lives of 1989’s Funniest Comics , in 2017.[ 10]
Selected filmography
Film
Television
Written works by Stoller
My Seinfeld Year (Kindle Single) (2012)
Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star (2013)
Five Minutes to Kill: How the HBO Young Comedians Special Changed the Lives of 1989's Funniest Comics' (Kindle Single) (2017)
References
^ a b "Fred Stoller Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More" . Allmusic . Retrieved October 23, 2022 . Born March 19, 1958 in New York, NY.
^ a b Stoller 2013 , p. 10
^ Stoller 2013 , p. 222: "...I'm the skinny neurotic Jewish comedy guy."
^ Stoller 2013 , p. 19
^ "Programming: Stand Up America". Radio Times . July 1987.
^ Callaway, Jimmy (May 18, 2017). "The Big Chill of Comedy with Fred Stoller" . Vulture.com .
^ a b " "Seinfeld" writers head to "Fred" " . Reuters . October 10, 2008.
^ Rabin, Nathan (September 25, 2012). "Comedy's most awkward performer, on his uncomfortable year on Seinfeld" . The A.V. Club .
^ Matheson, Whitney (May 16, 2013). "I love this book: 'Maybe We'll Have You Back' " . USA Today .
^ Altucher, James (June 21, 2017). "Fred Stoller – Five Minutes To Kill: A Story About "Making It" " . Yahoo! Finance .
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