Jeffrey Ross
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| Jeffrey Ross | |
.jpg) Ross in 2005 |
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| Born | September 13, 1965 Springfield, New Jersey |
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Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor and director.
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[edit] Comedy career
As a stand-up comic, Ross has appeared on TV shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Last Call with Carson Daly, Last Comic Standing, ABC's The View, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. In addition to his television credits, he is also a regular on The Opie and Anthony Show, and performs regularly for American servicemen and women stationed worldwide, and in support of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in Louisiana and Mississippi. Along with Lisa Lampanelli, he is considered one of the last insult comics.
Ross is also the current New York Friars' Club "Roastmaster General", and was a roaster for the last five Comedy Central roasts: Pamela Anderson in 2005, William Shatner in 2006, Flavor Flav in 2007, Bob Saget in 2008, and Larry the Cable Guy in 2009. He has also written for, performed in and/or produced several other celebrity roasts, such as those for Hugh Hefner, Rob Reiner, Jerry Stiller, Drew Carey, Emmitt Smith, Carson Daly, Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic and Gene Simmons.
[edit] TV career
In addition to Ross' dramatic turn on CBS's CSI, he has appeared on HBO's Six Feet Under, Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program, and Showtime's Weeds. He has also appeared as a regular cast member in Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out on MTV. In film, he has appeared in Stuck on You and The Aristocrats. He also provided the voice for the beagle Buddy in the MTV2 Sic'emation animated satire program that he created, Where My Dogs At?.
[edit] Dancing with the Stars
Ross competed on seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. He was partnered with Edyta Śliwińska. During rehearsal of their first dance, Ross was accidentally poked in the eye by Śliwińska, suffering a scratched cornea. Against doctor's advice, Ross continued the competition. They were the first couple to be eliminated.
[edit] Dancing with the Stars Performances
| Week # | Dance/Song | Judges' score | Result | ||
| Inaba | Goodman | Tonioli | |||
| 1A | Cha-Cha-Cha – "Play That Funky Music" | 4 | 4 | 4 | Eliminated |
| 1B | Quickstep – "I Get a Kick out of You" | n/a | n/a | n/a | Not scored: performed as encore for elimination show |
[edit] Elimination practical joke
Before being voted off Dancing with the Stars, Ross fell victim to a practical joke launched against him by his "good friend" Sal Iacono (aka Cousin Sal) of Jimmy Kimmel Live! fame. This is Ross's version of the prank:
- "So it’s Tuesday night. I’m in my wardrobe. I’ve been back to the eye doctor. I missed rehearsal. I’ve been working on this routine every day for five weeks, including Labor Day weekend. I’m getting made up. I’m in my dance shoes. Cousin Sal text messages me: 'You’re safe. Don’t tell anyone.' Now, I know that they sometimes get inside information, because they get the castoffs, and they have to prepare. So I say, 'Are you sure?' and he texts back: 'Yes, don’t tell anyone.'
- "I know that I’m dancing. I now know that I’m safe. This is my great friend, who has an inside track, telling me I’m safe. I whispered it to (my dancing partner) Edyta. She says, 'How do you know?' I say, 'I can’t tell, but we’re cool. We’re going to dance. It will probably be at the end because they’re going to want people to assume we’re off.'"
- At that point, the vote was announced and Ross and his partner were in last place and eliminated from the show.
- "I’m mortified. I’m completely heart-broken and devastated. I have a scratched cornea and broken heart at the end of the night. I can’t believe that my friend did that to me."[1]
[edit] Directing
Ross' directorial debut, Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie received the Best Feature Film Award at the Montreal Comedy Festival. The documentary is about Ross' life changing experience entertaining U.S. troops stationed around Iraq. It features fellow comedians/comic actors Drew Carey, Blake Clark and Kathy Kinney.
[edit] Personal life
Ross was born in New Jersey.[2] He is Jewish, as mentioned in his 2008 Comedy Central stand-up special, Jeffrey Ross: No Offense. He is a graduate of Boston University's College of Communication. In a 2008 interview for the student-run BUTV10 program Full Circle, Ross mentioned that during his college years he was the director at BU's WTBU, worked at the local NPR affiliate and was short order cook at a restaurant in Kenmore Square.
