Reggie Watts Biography
Reggie Watts is a comedian, actor, beatboxer, and musician from the United States. His impromptu musical acts are composed only of his voice, a piano, and a looping machine. Watts describes himself as a “disinformationist” who uses comedy to disorient his audience. On the IFC mock discussion program Comedy Bang! Bang!, he was the regular house musician. Watts lead The Late Late Show with James Corden’s house band from 2015 until 2023.
How old is Reggie Watts? – Age
He was born Reginald Lucien Frank Roger on 23 March 1972 in Stuttgart, Germany. He is 51 years old as of 23 March 2023.
Reggie Watts Family
Reginald was born to French mother Christiane and African-American father Charles Alphonso Watts. His father was an Air Force commander, so the family lived in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain before returning to the United States and settling in Great Falls, Montana, where Watts was reared.
Reggie Watts Education
In 1990, he graduated from Great Falls High School. He traveled to Seattle when he was 18 to study music, first at the Art Institute of Seattle and then at Cornish College of the Arts.
Reggie Watts Band
From 2015 to 2023, Watts was the bandleader and announcer for The Late Late Show with James Corden. He defined his character on the program as “a cross between Paul Shaffer and Andy Richter.” His band on the program was unofficially titled Karen, but due to the increased usage of the name as an insult, the band was changed Melissa. Watts had a segment on the show called Reggie’s Question, where he would ask a guest a question about anything. The questions were a continuation of his stint on Comedy Bang! Bang! and followed his stand-up act’s inclination for surreal comedy.
Reggie Watts Seattle
Playing first appearances at small Seattle clubs and artist bungalows, he experimented with improvising complete songs in solo acts with the Line 6, while attempting to sound like Tom Waits. While in Seattle, he composed music for dance choreographers and dabbled in sketch comedy with longtime friend and future playwright Tommy Smith,[10] who ended their collaborative relationship when Watts failed to credit him for co-writing the lyrics to his viral hits “Fuck Shit Stack” and “What About Blowjobs?”
Reggie Watts Bang! Bang!
Watts began acting alongside Scott Aukerman in the IFC comedy series Comedy Bang! Bang!, based on the podcast of the same name, in 2012. That same year, Watts began working on a comedic YouTube channel called Jash alongside Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman.
In 2013, On the Boards recorded a new Watts special called Transition, which was featured at several arts festivals, including the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater, and won the MAP Fund Award and the Creative Capital Award. Watts was asked to perform at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown 2013 on London’s South Bank the same year, with Mac Lethal.
Watts provided the outro vocal on “Holy City” and beatboxed on the title track of Joan As Police Woman’s 2014 album The Classic. He also sang a song and delivered jokes as the final act on the season 4 premiere of John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show. Following CBS’s announcement that Watts will head The Late Late Show band in December 2014, Aukerman said Watts would leave Comedy Bang! Bang! after the first half of 2015. Watts’ final Comedy Bang! Bang! episode aired on June 5, 2015.
Reggie Watts Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Reggie Watts Career
n 1996, Watts became the frontman for the band Maktub. While recording and visiting from 1996 to 2000 with Wayne Horvitz’s 4+1 Outfit as a keyboardist, he had to cut back his belongings pedal from a Roland Space Reverberation tape deferral to a Line 6 DL4 postpone modeler, a more modest gadget that makes it simple to travel. He started involving the Line 6 in live shows with Maktub to reproduce the copy harmonies from the recorded material. He explored different avenues regarding ad libbing whole melodies in performance acts with the Line 6, while attempting to seem like Tom Pauses, playing starting gigs at little Seattle scenes and craftsman cottages. While in Seattle, he created melodic scores for dance choreographers and fiddled with sketch parody with long-lasting companion and future writer Tommy Smith, who later cut off their cooperative friendship when Watts neglected to credit him for co-composing the verses of his viral hits “Screw Poo Stack” and “Shouldn’t something be said about Penis massages?”
In 2004, subsequent to recording five collections north of eight years, Watts moved to the Lower East Side of New York City. In 2005, he recorded his most memorable performance single, “So Gorgeous”. Roused by The State and Wet Blistering American Summer, he started implanting unconstrained comedic material with the beat-box-driven melodic structures. He likewise shot comedic shorts for Superdeluxe, Vimeo, and CollegeHumor.
In 2007, Watts showed up on Plum television’s Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents and featured in the CollegeHumor web video “What might be said about Penis massages?” The video turned into a viral hit. That very year, he likewise composed and played out the signature tune for Penelope Princess of Pets, a web satire series including Kristen Schaal and H. Jon Benjamin. In 2008, Watts recorded another extraordinary entitled Disinformation, which includes his exhibition at the Unnoticed Celebration at the Public Theater. He additionally showed up in the autonomous film Steel of Fire Champions 2010 A.D. as a Mutantzoid Subordinate and on an episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as making other different TV appearances.
In 2009, Watts recorded his most memorable independent EP, Pot Treats. He additionally started showing up on the PBS Children’s kids’ program The Electric Organization. He acted in his most memorable performance short film Watts Does London and showed up on Fun times TV’s Michael and Michael Have Issues. He then, at that point, accomplished voice work for an episode of Grown-up Swim’s The Endeavor Brothers., Australia’s Uplifting news Week, and showed up in the U.S. narrative The Kow-towers Fix the World. He likewise visited on the side of Devotional in a fall 2009 visit.