Biography
Billy Gardell is an American actor and comedian who has been in a number of television episodes, including Mike and Molly, Yes, Dear, My Name Is Earl, Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, Sullivan & Son, and Bob Hearts Abishola. He voiced Santa in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas and as Lyle Winkler in Sullivan & Son.
Age
He is 54 years old as of 20 August 2023. He was born in 1969 in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, United States. His real name is William Gardell Jr.
Family – Education
Gardell attended Winter Park High School in Orange County, Florida, in 1985. Following his parents’ divorce, he went to Florida with his mother and younger siblings. After that, he only went to Pennsylvania during the summer. He has stated that residing in Florida was a wonderful experience.
At the age of 15, he began working at a department store warehouse’s reception area, unloading trucks and stacking pallets. In 1987, he began cleaning restrooms, seating customers, and answering phones at Bonkerz, a local comedy club.
Wife – Son
Gardell and Patty Knight have been married since 2001. They have a son named William III, born in 2003. His parents still live in Florida, and he pays them infrequent trips.
Weight Loss
Gardell has reduced approximately 150 pounds since having bariatric surgery in 2021, but maintaining his weight loss has been difficult. Billy Gardell’s physical metamorphosis over the previous few years has been nothing short of incredible. He’s lost almost 150 pounds since his first bariatric surgery in 2021.
Bob Hearts Abishola
He plays Bob Wheeler in Bob Hearts Abishola. Robert J. “Bob” Wheeler is Dottie’s son, the brother of Douglas and Christina, and one of the main characters in the CBS television series Bob Hearts Abishola. Bob, a compression sock businessman from Detroit, has a heart attack and unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, Abishola, a Nigerian immigrant. Despite being in the process of recovering from a heart attack, Bob becomes determined to win the nurse’s heart, unaffected by her apparent lack of interest and their vastly different backgrounds.
Bob previously married a woman named Lorraine. They had been together for twelve years but divorced three years before Bob’s heart attack. The romance ended because she slept with his childhood best friend, and Bob has been enraged ever since. When she is admitted to Woodward Memorial Hospital, Abishola begs him to forgive her. Lorraine sees it as an opportunity for reconciliation.
Lucky
He appeared as Vincent “Vinny” Sticcarelli in the American dark comedy television series Lucky.
Career
Gardell is known for his comedic jobs and is affected by Jackie Gleason. He has additionally recorded Richard Pryor, George Carlin, John Candy, and John Belushi as his persuasions. In spite of the fact that Bonkerz assisted send off his satire with careering, he has credited the help from his grandma, saying: “She let me know when I was 8 years of age that I could be a comic”.
Prior to Mike and Molly, Gardell uncovered that he considered a profession in radio in the wake of being out and about for his parody act started to influence his family time. He has acted in a few element films, including Terrible St Nick You, Me, and Dupree and Avenging Angelo as well as seeming various times in repeating jobs in a few US TV series, including NBC’s Heist, The Training, Indeed, Dear, Frantic Housewives, Fortunate, Bones, I am Duke, Priest, and The Ruler of Sovereigns.
Gardell showed up as himself on the Funny TV series Make Me Chuckle. In this way, he showed up on Mill operator’s TV program Dennis Mill operator, broadcast on the US monetary news network CNBC (leading “man in the city” interviews). Eminently, he made and organized a SNL-style good cause execution of a piece called Winter Park Live, the returns from which were given to Lighthearted element.
Gardell keeps on showing up on old neighborhood nearby radio broadcast WDVE, showing up on The DVE Morning Show. Gardell likewise showed up on Chelsea Recently, as a roundtable member. Gardell showed up on an exceptional for Fun times TV Presents in 2007 that circulated on April 4, 2008. Gardell likewise played the host of Pizza Talk, a fanciful television series, in ads for Round Table Pizza. In 2006, Gardell’s most memorable parody collection, Billy Gardell: Legacy, was delivered.
From September 2010 to May 2016, Gardell featured in Mike and Molly, close by Melissa McCarthy. In November 2011, he loaned his voice to St Nick in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas. His stand-up exceptional Halftime was delivered in 2011 and broadcasted on Fun times TV. It was recorded in Pittsburgh and profiles average America. Starting around 2011, he keeps on visiting as a professional comic as well as acting. In a 2011 Orlando Sentinel article, Gardell said he wouldn’t see any problems with doing films once more.
In 2013, Gardell’s satire extraordinary Billy Gardell Presents Street Canines debuted on Kickoff. In 2015, Gardell began the lottery game show Imposing business model Tycoons’ Club, highlighting contenders who purchased tickets for the Syndication Moguls’ Club lottery game; the last option started on October 19, 2014. Gardell procured a Daytime Emmy designation for Remarkable Game Show Host in 2016, yet lost to Craig Ferguson.
Starting around 2018, Gardell has repeated on the CBS side project sitcom Youthful Sheldon as neighbor Herschel Sparkles. In October 2018, he was given a role as Bounce in the CBS pilot of Weave Hearts Abishola, close by Folake Olowofoyeku. In May 2019, the series was requested, and it debuted in September 2019. Gardell started showing up in promotions for A1C medicine Ozempic in 2021. This followed his contribution in the Ozempic reality series “My Sort 2 Change” two years past.
Movies
♦ 2017 – Once Upon a Time in Venice
♦ 2017 – Special Unit
♦ 2016 – Undrafted
♦ 2015 – Dancer and the Dame
♦ 2014 – Jersey Boys
♦ 2007 – D-War
♦ 2006 – Room 6
♦ 2006 – You, Me and Dupree
♦ 2003 – Bad Santa
♦ 2002 – Avenging Angelo
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Extended Family
♦ 2019–2024 – Bob Hearts Abishola
♦ 2018–2019 – Young Sheldon
♦ 2017–present – Funny You Should Ask
♦ 2017 – Sun Records
♦ 2017 – Angie Tribeca
♦ 2017 – Dice
♦ 2016 – Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
♦ 2016 – Girl Meets World
♦ 2016 – New Girl
♦ 2015–2016 – Monopoly Millionaires’ Club
♦ 2015 – The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
♦ 2013 – Phineas and Ferb
♦ 2012–2014 – Sullivan & Son
♦ 2012 – Family Guy – Mike Biggs
♦ 2011 – Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
♦ 2010–2016 – Mike & Molly
♦ 2009 – Bones