An elfin comic actor and writer, Rob Schneider first registered playing various high-concept characters on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" from 1989-1994. Schneider brought surprising charm to such limited creations as 'The Sensitive Naked Man' and Richard 'The Richmeister' Laymer, a vacuous office denizen who sat by the copy machine plaguing co-workers by adding increasingly silly suffixes to their names. Schneider has since proven adept playing smarmy character roles in several major motion pictures.

A San Francisco native, Schneider dropped out of junior college and began frequenting