I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in her son's films playing a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and a nosy neighbor in The Animal. Other film roles include Schneider's appearance with Jim Henson's Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space and his role as a San Francisco hobo in the 2004 remake of Around the World in 80 Days. The U.

Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider (born October 31 1963) is an American actor comedian screenwriter and director.