Barry Rothbart (American Comedian) – Age, Height, Net Worth, Biography

Barry Rothbart is an American comedian, actor and writer. He currently splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City. He was named one of Variety magazine’s “10 Comics to Watch” in 2013. He played the role of Peter Deblasio in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street , played Kevin on ABC’s Downward Dog and currently appears on Showtime’s Kidding. Rothbart said on This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir that his father was a bookie for the Gambino Crime Family but claimed to be a music producer.

Barry Rothbart Biography

A comic actor and writer from Forest Hills, NY. Voted Top Ten Comics to watch by Variety Magazine in 2013. Best known most recently for his roles in Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Conan (TV Series) and MTV’s Punk’d (2011). He began his career performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC in the early 2000’s while also touring the country performing stand up comedy. He splits his time between NY and Los Angeles. Rothbart was born in Forest Hills in Queens, New York. He is Jewish. Rothbart’s father was fired from his job for embezzling money, and later bet his life savings on the Red Sox, losing it all in the 1986 World Series, at which his point his mother left his father. As a result, Rothbart said on This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir that his father was a bookie for the Gambino Crime Family but claimed to be a music producer. Rothbart would late do random jobs for his father’s illegal sports betting office. Rothbart briefly attended University of Massachusetts Lowell and started doing stand up there. He later transferred to Pace University to study business, but left there after a year to focus on film at Hofstra University. Rothbart then took classes at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, before focusing on stand-up. After seven years performing around New York City, he decided to move to Los Angeles.

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Career: Rothbart started out in commercials and found some early success there. In 2011, Rothbart made his stand up television debut on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In 2013, he was named one of the “Top Ten Comics to Watch” by Variety magazine. In 2012, Rothbart landed a role on the revival of Punk’d but was fired after four episodes as a result of his management team leaking he had landed the role. In 2013 he landed the role of Peter Deblasio in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. In June 2014, a show he wrote, 300 Sunnyside, was picked up by Comedy Central to air on their fall schedule of that year. Later that year, he released an album, Streets of Fire, on AST Records. He later played Kevin in the new ABC comedy Downward Dog.