Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Stand-up Comedian, Playwright,  Atheist                          

Selected Works:

Best Comedy Album:
The Carnegie Hall Performance - 2007
Stark Raving Black - 2011.

Nothing's Sacred - 2005
Nothing's Sacred - audio book - 2006
Nothing's Sacred - softcover version - 2007
Me of Little Faith - 2008
Me of Little Faith - paperback version with added content - 2009
I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas - 2010

CDs:

The White Album - 2000
Revolver - EP - 2002
The End of the Universe - 2002
Rules of Enragement - 2003
Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues - 2005
The Carnegie Hall Performance - 2006
Anticipation - 2008
Stark Raving Black - 2010
The Prophet - 2011
In God We Rust - 2012

DVDs:

Unleashed - compilation of his four Comedy Central specials plus his appearances on The Daily Show: Indecision 2000 - 2002
Black on Broadway - 2003 HBO Special - 2004
A Pair of Lewis Black Shorts - Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick Story and The Gynecologists - 2006
Red, White, and Screwed - 2006
History of the Joke with Lewis Black - 2008 
Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black - 2009
Stark Raving Black - 2009
In God We Rust - 2012

Film:

Hannah and Her Sisters - 1986
Jacob's Ladder - 1990
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd - 1990–1991 - TV series
Law & Order, "Aria" - 1991
The Hard Way - 1991
Homicide: Life on the Street, "Deception" - 1997
Mad About You - Season 6, Episode 7: Played "The Pizza Slice" - 1997 - TV series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Obscene" - 2004
The Happy Elf - 2005
Accepted - 2006
Man of the Year - 2006
Unaccompanied Minors - 2006
Farce of the Penguins - 2007
Falling for Grace - 2007
History of the Joke - 2008 - Documentary
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil - 2008 - TV series
The Big Bang Theory, "The Jiminy Conjecture" - 2009 - TV series
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated - 2010 - TV series
The Penguins of Madagascar, "Arch-Enemy" - 2011 - TV series
Celebrity Ghost Stories, Season 4, Episode 61 - 2012 - TV Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Season 1, Episode 3 - 2012 - TV Series                          

Parents Jeanette and Sam Black                          

American Comedy Awards:

Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic- 2001

Hosted the World Stupidity Awards ceremony at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival for the three years the awards were presented - 2003-2006

Hosted Comedy Central's Last Laugh '07 -2007 with Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley.

Hosted the Comedy Central television series The Root of All Evil - 2008

History of the Joke - 2008

Surviving the Holidays - 2009




                          

Was once married for less than a year in the mid-late 70s while pursuing a master's, when Lewis was 26 years old.

He married his girlfriend when she found out she was pregnant. Five months after the birth of the baby, Lewis found out it wasn't his. They divorced and he has been single since.