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Kevin James

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Kevin James

b. 1965

American comedian and actor (born 1965)

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Biography

Kevin George Knipfing, known professionally as Kevin James, is an American comedian and actor. James began his career as a stand-up comedian on Long Island in the late 1980s before rising to prominence for playing Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), for which he received the nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.

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Timeline

The story of Kevin James, told in moments.

1965 Birth

Born Kevin George Knapp in Mineola, New York. Played fullback on his college football team at SUNY Cortland. Started doing stand-up comedy on Long Island after graduating.

1998 Event

Created and starred in The King of Queens on CBS. Played a delivery driver from Rego Park. The show ran nine seasons and 207 episodes. His chemistry with Jerry Stiller drove the comedy.

2005 Event

Starred in Hitch with Will Smith. His physical comedy style translated to film. Paul Blart: Mall Cop followed in 2009 and grossed $183 million against a $26 million budget.

2015 Life

Became a regular in Adam Sandler's Happy Madison ensemble. Appeared in Grown Ups, Pixels, and multiple Netflix films. Critics panned them. Audiences watched anyway.

In Their Own Words (4)

When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like "Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?!" "Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?"

Sweat the Small Stuff (2001), 2001

This annoyed me: I was on the phone with somebody today tryin to get a phone number from that person and write it down, but they didn't have phone number rhythm and that pissed me off. You know what I'm talkin about? Phone number rhythm. Especially if there's like an area code involved, like 'two one two - bum bum buh - bum buh bum buh!' That is the rhythm I think we're all familiar with. This guy had no clue! I was like "Okay, Hank. Gimme the number." He's like "Alright. It's two one two nine - fifteen eight eleven six [mumbling incoherently] fou.. tw.. five.. eight.. seven.. two." "Did you throw in your zip code? Cause I got a lot of extra numbers over here. I have extra. I can almost start a new number! What do ya got?! Start again from the top!" They really screw you up on the last four numbers. That's where they get ya. "Five five five - six.. teen forty one" "Dude, I already wrote the six! I made the dash too close, I can't shimmy the one in there now! Forget you!"

Sweat The Small Stuff (2001), 2001

How big are muffins going to get before we all join hands across America? Have you seen them? They're huge. You walk in, "Yeah, I'll take a coffee and... Oh my God! Yeah, I'll take the bean bag chair with raisins. Wooh! Yeah! Alright, can't believe this is fat-free! Hey, you wanna help me out to the trunk of my car? No, leave the Saran Wrap on it I'll use it to cover my pool, this is good."

Sweat the Small Stuff (2001), 2001

I'm not a gay man, but I will say this: I get it now. I know what all the hype is about.

after filming multiple takes of an on-screen kiss with actor Will Smith in the film Hitch

Artifacts (15)

WHEN HORSES WALKED ON WATER

Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn show how a confluence of geographic, technological, economic, and social conditions in the United States and Canada turned an ancient idea into a practical...

1998

Macromedia ColdFusion 5: Training from the Source

Master ColdFusion with tutorials developed at Macromedia training centers. This is a complete learning solution for one of the leading Web development tools with self-paced lessons that cover every...

2002

Inventory Planning for Remanufacturing

Remanufacturing is a process by which a used product called a "core" is restored to like-new condition. The process involves disassembling the core down to its constituent used parts, differentiating...

2003

Children of the Light

Children of the Light tells the story of a family's discovery of their spiritual destiny to bring healing energy to a desperate world. Every day their experiences are life-altering! While one child...

2004

From The Blood of Cain

THERE IS A GATE. THE GATE LEADS TO MANY REALMS. ONE REALM, THE LAND THEY ONCE CALLED NOD, OTHERS SIMPLY CALLED IT LIMBO IT IS WHERE TIME BEGAN, BUT TURNED FOUL. THE GATE IS KEEPS OUR WORLD SAFE FROM...

2006

Earn $200,000 Per Year as a Loan Broker

Earn money as a professional loan broker. Our program is designed to operate with a minimum out-of-pocket expense; all you need to get started is our program manual and a few hours a day. You can earn...

2009

The Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century: Sons of Saint-Gilles

The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called ‘crusader states’ established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The present...

2017

Optix

Thanks to Optix you never truly see the truth right ahead of you. An implant created for you to perceive the perfect world. The ever dutiful Optix architect Lamorna Cruickshanks devoted her life to...

2024

The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College

This book systematically analyzes the evidence on four key issues that have divided commentators on the community college: The community college's impact on students, business, and the universities;...

1994

PC Interfacing and Data Acquisition: Techniques for Measurement, Instrumentation and Control

A practical guide to programming for data acquisition and measurement - must-have info in just the right amount of depth for engineers who are not programming specialists. This book offers a complete...

2000

Diary of A Village Boy: The Memoirs of an Ordinary Man and the Times He Lived Through

Kevin James was brought up in a humble home in rural Somerset in the 1950s, the son of a rabbit catcher and a farm labourer’s daughter. Despite poor health he soon learned how to fend for himself and...

2013

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip: On the Road of the Longest Two-Week Family Road Trip in History

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip chronicles the adventures of a single Dad taking his two kids on a 6,950-mile odyssey across the USA and back during his two-week vacation. Along the way, they set a...

2014

She Who Loved Much: The Sinful Woman in Saint Ephrem the Syrian and the Orthodox Tradition

This sharply honed and well-constructed work brings to the fore and explores the New Testament story regarding the woman who entered a house where Jesus was dining and anointed him with precious oil...

2022

He spoke [ἀγορεύω, agoreúō] the truth no less than did the Pythian [πυθικός, put...

e led him to be associated with Pythian Apollo (Pūthíā); Aristippus of Cyrene in the 4th century BC explained his name by saying, "He spoke [ἀγορεύω, agoreúō] the truth no less than did the Pythian...

Works Talk

Thermal and Electrical Properties of Electrides

1990

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