Jeffrey Ross
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Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor & director.
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's also a regular on The Opie and Anthony Show. He also performs regularly for American servicemen and women stationed worldwide, and in support of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Ross is also the current New York Friars' Club "Roastmaster General", and was a roaster for the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson in 2005. 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, William Shatner,Mike Greenburg, Mike Golic and Flavor Flav. One of Ross' most famous put-downs came during a 1999 roast of Stiller, in which he said of Sandra Bernhard, "I wouldn't fuck her with Bea Arthur's dick."[1] (During the Anderson roast, he amended the joke to "I wouldn't fuck Bea Arthur's dick with Andy Dick's pussy." He also said at the same roast, "How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?")[2] He was the roastmaster when Dana Jacobson said "Fuck Jesus."
Ross' directorial debut, "Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie" recently 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.
In addition to Ross' recent dramatic turn on CBS's CSI, he has appeared on HBO's Six Feet Under and Showtime's Weeds. 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?
Ross is Jewish. His specific religious beliefs are unknown as they are rarely discussed.
