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Born | Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. [1] | March 29, 1980
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Years active | 1996–present |
Spouses | Emily Montague (m. 2006;div. 2010)Kristin Taylor (m. 2022) |
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Website | chrisdelia |
Christopher William D'Elia (born March 29, 1980) [2] [3] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host. He is known for playing Alex Miller on the NBC sitcom Whitney , Danny Burton on the NBC sitcom Undateable , Kenny on the ABC television series The Good Doctor and Henderson on the Netflix thriller series You .
Christopher William D'Elia was born on March 29, 1980, in Montclair, New Jersey. [1] His parents are television producer and director Bill D'Elia, [4] and interior decorator Ellie D'Elia (née Dombroski). [5] His father is a second-generation Italian-American, [6] and his mother is of Polish and Italian descent.[ citation needed ] His younger brother is filmmaker/actor Matt D'Elia. [7] When D'Elia was 12, the family relocated to Los Angeles [8] and he attended La Cañada High School in the late 1990s. [9]
D'Elia started acting in high school and had some guest roles on Chicago Hope. [10] He attended New York University and studied acting, but dropped out after a year because he did not like college. [10] He then appeared in a movie that went straight to DVD. During his downtime as an actor, he started writing scripts. When he was 25, he decided to try stand-up comedy, which he had always wanted to do. [11]
D'Elia has been performing stand-up comedy since 2006. His first set was at the Ha Ha Café in North Hollywood. [8] He considers himself to be a stand-up comedian who acts. [11] He has been featured on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and Comedy Central Presents , as well as Showtime's Live Nude Comedy. He was introduced to a broader audience as a regular on the series Glory Daze , [12] which ran for one season on TBS. He was initially cast only for the pilot and was later made a series regular. [11] He then costarred on the NBC comedy series Whitney , opposite comedian Whitney Cummings, for two seasons. [12] [13]
D'Elia was one of three hosts of the Ten Minute Podcast (2012–2015), along with Bryan Callen and Will Sasso. Since February 2017, he has hosted the weekly podcast Congratulations with Chris D'Elia, which has charted in the top 20 comedy podcasts in multiple countries.[ citation needed ] Listeners of the podcast are often referred to as 'Babies'. Other podcasts have been heavily influenced by his style, including The Fighter and the Kid . [14] D'Elia also gained over 2 million followers on Vine.
In January 2013, D'Elia released his debut parody rap album, as MC "Chank Smith", called Such Is Life (produced by Mr. Green). [15]
On December 6, 2013, D'Elia's first one-hour stand-up special, White Male Black Comic, aired on Comedy Central. [16] He has had three subsequent comedy specials: Incorrigible (2015), Man On Fire (2017), and No Pain (2020), all of which aired on Netflix. These were directed by his father, [17] [1] with the exception of No Pain which was directed by his brother. [18]
D'Elia had a lead role in the 2014–2016 NBC sitcom Undateable as Danny Burton, a ladies' man whose friends are all in one way or another "undateable". [19] The show often incorporated improvisation, with a cast of stand-up comics who were friends before the show. [20] [21] In 2015, executive producer Bill Lawrence and comics from the cast (D'Elia, Brent Morin, Ron Funches and Rick Glassman) went on a series of stand-up tour dates to promote the show. [22]
In 2016, D'Elia headlined the Leafly 420 Comedy Tour show in Chicago with special guest Ron Funches. [23]
In March 2019, it was announced that D'Elia had been cast in the recurring role of Henderson on the second season of the Netflix thriller series You . [24]
On an April 2018 episode of his Congratulations podcast, D'Elia imitated rapper Eminem and made fun of Eminem's middle-aged fans, while conceding that Eminem was "one of the best rappers of all time". [25] Positive reaction to that imitation led D'Elia to imitate Eminem's rapping again in videos he posted online in September 2018 (in his car) and January 2019 (in his garage). In February 2019, Eminem posted the garage video on his Twitter account, writing, "This is INCREDIBLE!!! 4 a second I actually thought it WAS me!!" The May 2019 single "Homicide" by Logic featuring Eminem then included an audio clip from the car video at the end of the song. D'Elia said that it was a "huge honor" to be included in the song and that he did not ask for any royalties. [26] D'Elia then had a substantial role in the music video for the song, released in June 2019, which had each rapper's part performed/lip-synced by someone else: Logic's part was performed by actor Chauncey Leopardi (in reference to a humorous internet meme that claimed that the two were the same person), Eminem's part was performed by D'Elia, and D'Elia's part was performed by Eminem, mimicking the appearance of D'Elia in the car video. [27]
In August 2020, it was officially announced that D'Elia would be replaced by Tig Notaro in Army of the Dead (2021). [28] Trailers for the film were released in April 2021 with Notaro in place of D'Elia. [29]
On January 13, 2022, Brendan Schaub and Theo Von added D'Elia to their weekly podcast "King and the Sting", renaming it to "King and the Sting and Wing". [30] On November 4, 2022, "King and the Sting and Wing" was officially renamed "The Golden Hour", with Workaholics actor Erik Griffin Replacing Von. [31]
Four separate episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring D’Elia have been removed by Spotify, but no reason was given. [32]
In 2006, D'Elia married actress Emily Montague. They divorced in 2010. [33] On June 18, 2022 Chris married his longtime girlfriend Kristin Taylor. [34] Although his characters in Whitney (Alex Miller) and Undateable (Danny Burton) are both portrayed as frequent drinkers, D'Elia has allegedly never consumed illicit drugs or alcohol. [35]
D'Elia lives in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles. [36]
In June 2020, D'Elia was accused of sexual harassment, grooming, and solicitation of nude photos by multiple underage girls. [37] D'Elia denied the allegations, saying that he had neither "knowingly pursued any underage women at any point" nor "met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me." [38]
Comedy Central removed the 2011 Workaholics episode "To Friend a Predator," which features D'Elia as a child molester who befriends the main characters, from its website, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video. Comedy Central also removed D'Elia's 2013 stand-up special White Male. Black Comic from its website. [39] Creative Artists Agency dropped D'Elia due to the allegations. [40] In August 2020, D'Elia who previously was cast in and shot a role for Army of the Dead [41] was replaced by Tig Notaro, due to the allegations. [42]
In early September 2020, CNN Entertainment reported that in 2011 D'Elia asked actress Megan Drust for a ride home from a Los Angeles restaurant. While in the car, D'Elia allegedly unzipped his pants and exposed himself and started to masturbate before Drust exited the vehicle, saying, "You're defiling my car". According to CNN, two of Drust's friends confirmed being told the story soon after the incident. [43]
In February 2021, D'Elia posted a 10-minute video on his YouTube channel about the allegations, saying "sex controlled my life," and "I stand by the fact that all my relationships have been consensual and legal." He also stated that the allegations represented only a limited view of what had happened and apologized to all who had been affected. [44]
In March 2021, D'Elia was sued by an anonymous woman in U.S. federal court, on allegations that D'Elia sexually abused her and asked her for explicit pictures when she was 17. This allegedly led to the exchange of more than 100 sexually explicit photos and videos via Snapchat in a period of six or seven months in 2014 and 2015, many shared when she was 17 years old. In a statement, a spokesperson for D'Elia said that he denies the allegations. [45] [46] [47] The lawsuit was voluntarily withdrawn by the accuser a little over a month after it was filed. [48] [49]
D'Elia has cited Jim Carrey, Bryan Callen, Eddie Murphy, [17] [50] and Mitzi Shore [51] as major influences on his comedic career.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2004 | Almost | Marc | |
2005 | Bad Girls from Valley High | Gavin | |
2005 | Crazylove | Jake | |
2012 | Celeste and Jesse Forever | Snow White | |
2013 | Funny: The Documentary | Himself | Documentary |
2015 | Flock of Dudes | Adam | |
2016 | XOXO [52] | Neil | |
2017 | Band Aid | Uber Annoying | |
2017 | The Female Brain | Charlie | |
2017 | Little Evil | Wayne | |
2018 | Half Magic | Edward | |
2020 | Life in a Year | Phil | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996–1997 | Chicago Hope | Luke Sarison | 2 episodes |
2000 | Get Real | Chuck | 2 episodes |
2004 | Boston Legal | Kevin Quinlan | Episode: "An Eye for an Eye" |
2005 | American Dreams | Phil Toolin | Episode: "California Dreamin'" |
2005 | Monk | Cal Gefsky | Episode: "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk" |
2010–2011 | Glory Daze | Bill Stankowski | Main role |
2011 | Workaholics | Topher | Episode: "To Friend a Predator" |
2011–2013 | Whitney | Alex Miller | Main role |
2012 | Sullivan & Son | Ryan Capps | Episode: "The Fifth Musketeer" |
2013 | White Male. Black Comic | Himself | Television special |
2013–2016 | Sanjay and Craig | Remington Tufflips | Voice, recurring role |
2014 | Jennifer Falls | Adam | Recurring role |
2014–2016 | Undateable | Danny Burton | Lead role |
2015 | Incorrigible | Himself | Television special |
2015 | The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber | Himself | Television special |
2016 | Rush Hour | Buddy | Episode: "Welcome Back, Carter" |
Typical Rick | Lukee Sado | 2 episodes | |
Lip Sync Battle | Himself | Episode: "Brent Morin vs. Chris D'Elia" | |
2017 | The Great Indoors | Aaron Wolf | Episode: "Aaron Wolf" |
Man On Fire | Himself | Television special | |
2017–2018 | The Good Doctor | Kenny | Recurring role (season 1) |
2018 | Alone Together | Dean | Recurring |
2019 | Comedians of the World | Himself | Episode: "Chris D'Elia" |
Huge in France | Himself | Recurring | |
You | Henderson | Recurring role (season 2) [24] | |
2020 | No Pain | Himself | Television special |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2012–2016 | Ten Minute Podcast [53] | Himself | Podcast |
2014–2017 | The Joe Rogan Experience | Himself | Podcast |
2011–2022 | The Adam Carolla Show | Himself | Podcast |
2016 | Hot Ones | Himself | Web Series |
2018–2019 | H3 Podcast | Himself | Podcast |
2018 | Tigerbelly | Himself | Podcast |
2019 | Armchair Expert | Himself | Podcast |
2016–present | The Fighter and The Kid | Himself | Podcast |
2017–present | Congratulations with Chris D'Elia | Himself | Podcast |
2018–present | This Past Weekend with Theo Von | Himself | Podcast |
2020–2022 | The King and The Sting and Wing | Himself | Podcast |
2022–present | The Golden Hour | Himself | Podcast |
2022–present | Lifeline | Himself | Podcast |
Title | Album details |
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Such is Life [54] |
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White Male. Black Comic. [55] |
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