Joey Diaz Biography
Joey Diaz is a stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, and author. After pursuing stand-up comedy full-time in Colorado and Seattle in 1991, Diaz moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and began acting, landing roles in My Name Is Earl, The Longest Yard, Spider-Man 2, Grudge Match, and The Many Saints of Newark.
How old is Joey Diaz? – Age
He is 60 years old as of 19 February 2023. He was born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba. His real name is José Antonio Díaz. He is of Cuban descent
Joey Diaz Family – Did Joey Diaz attend college?
He emigrated to the United States at a young age and was reared in North Bergen, New Jersey, where he was the only Cuban-American at the time. His mother owned a pub and a lucrative numbers game. As a boy, he was raised Catholic and enjoyed hearing stories about St. Francis of Assisi and St. Michael.
Diaz went to McKinley School and later North Bergen High School, where he received prizes for his performance in the arts. He received his diploma in 1982. Diaz lost his father when he was three years old. Diaz discovered his mother dead in their home when he was 16 years old.
Joey Diaz Wife
Diaz has had two marriages. He divorced his first wife in 1991, at which time he lost contact with their daughter. He married Terrie Clark on November 25, 2009. The couple has one child.
Joey Diaz Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m).
Joey Diaz Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Joey Diaz Stand-up
Diaz, a comic, began performing blue humor after seeing the 1988 film Punchline. He worked as a doorman at Wit’s End before debuting his first routine in 1991 at Denver’s Comedy Works. In 1992, he used cocaine before performing, which he eventually quit doing. Diaz won the Beck’s Amateur Comedy Competition and went on to compete in another similar competition in Seattle, Washington. In 1994, he enrolled in the Comedy Works’ comic development program, which included group writing sessions and club sets.
Diaz left Colorado for Los Angeles, California in 1995, motivated by his divorce from his first wife and the lack of touch with their daughter. He performed at North Bergen in 2007 to raise funds for the North Bergen High School basketball team’s outfits. In 2012, he released his stand-up special, It’s Either You or the Priest, which debuted at number one on the Billboard comedy charts in the UK and Canada, as well as on iTunes. Diaz’s debut one-hour comedy special, Sociably Unacceptable, was published in December 2016 through on-demand subscription services Seeso and Comedy Dynamics.
Joey Diaz Podcasts
Diaz met comedian Felicia Michaels in 2009, who inspired him to co-host a new comedy podcast. Beauty and the Beast debuted in August 2010. Diaz told a story about lighting fire to a prostitute’s wig when he was younger in an early episode. Attendance at Diaz’s stand-up concerts soared the weekend after it aired. After 113 episodes, the podcast came to an end in November 2012.
Diaz created his own podcast, The Church of What’s Happening Now, on September 2, 2012, which he co-hosted with producer and sidekick Lee Syatt. Diaz named it after a statement said to him by his previous manager while he was selling vehicles in Boulder. Episodes were released on numerous audio-only podcast sites, as well as an audio+video version on YouTube, where they amassed over 500,000 subscribers.
Diaz debuted a new podcast series, Uncle Joey’s Joint, on October 5, 2020, after returning to New Jersey from California. Lee Syatt, Diaz’s old producer and sidekick, is a recurrent guest on the relaunched podcast but is no longer the show’s producer.
Joey Diaz Arrest
In 1988, he was sentenced to prison for kidnapping and violent robbery, spending 16 months of a four-year sentence. Diaz would perform stand-up routines for his fellow convicts during the weekly film screening event when the projector broke during his stay in prison. Despite being told of his aptitude, Diaz took three years to try stand-up, and later described his entry into the field as “the last resort” because he had numerous other occupations in the past.
Joey Diaz Movies
♦ 2021 – The Many Saints of Newark
♦ 2020 – Grapefruit
♦ 2018 – Camp Death III in 2D!
♦ 2016 – The Bronx Bull
♦ 2016 – Rules Don’t Apply
♦ 2015 – The Dog Who Saved Summer
♦ 2014 – The Dog Who Saved Easter
♦ 2013 – Grudge Match
♦ 2012 – Leader of the Pack
♦ 2012 – Jersey Shore Shark Attack
♦ 2012 – The Dog Who Saved the Holidays
♦ 2011 – Stonerville
♦ 2011 – Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
♦ 2011 – The Dog Who Saved Halloween
♦ 2011 – My Dog’s Christmas Miracle
♦ 2011 – Outtakes
♦ 2010 – Stacy’s Mom
♦ 2010 – The Russian
♦ 2010 – Sinatra Club
Joey Diaz TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2022 – WeCrashed
♦ 2022 – Sprung
♦ 2020 – The Cabin with Bert Kreischer
♦ 2020 – The Comedy Store
♦ 2020 – The Midnight Gospel
♦ 2020 – Big City Greens
♦ 2018 – The Degenerates
♦ 2018 – I’m Dying Up Here
♦ 2018 – The Guest Book
♦ 2017 – The High Court
♦ 2017 – Superior Donuts
♦ 2016 – Maron
♦ 2015 – Laugh Factory
♦ 2014 – Maron
♦ 2014 – TripTank
♦ 2013 – Partners
♦ 2013 – Brooklyn Nine-Nine