Craig Shoemaker

Shoemaker grew up in the Philadelphia area and graduated from Springfield Township High School. He first attended Temple University, financing himself by working as a bartender and MC for comedy acts, but later transferred to California University of Pennsylvania and received a bachelor of arts degree with majors in radio, television and theater.

His first acting role was a guest spot as an entertainment reporter on ABC’s Matlock. He later starred in a guest role on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, portraying the ghost of a boxer. He has since been a guest on many TV series, such as Sliders, Spin City, Diagnosis Murder, Parks & Recreation, and The Bold & The Beautiful. He has also acted in several feature films, such as Scream 2, Safe House, Pleasantville and National Lampoon's Totally Baked: A Potumentary. Most recently Craig has been writing for the hit Netflix series Fuller House.

Shoemaker has also had several television stand-up specials on networks such as Comedy Central and Showtime (titled "Daditude"). His signature character from his stand-up, the lecherous, deep-voiced "Lovemaster" eventually inspired a film in 1997.

In 2003, he founded LaughterHeals.org, a nonprofit group dedicated to using laughter as a healing modality. In 2014, Shoemaker published a book, Lovemaster'd: a Digital Journey to Love and Happiness, which details a long correspondence between himself and a women known only as "Leah" about their struggles with divorce and relationships.

Shoemaker currently hosts a weekly podcast & webcast, "Laugh It Off" available on his official website.

Shoemaker was married to actress Nancy Allen in the early 1990s. He later married actress Carolyn Ann Clark, and had two sons with her, Justin (b. 1998) and Jared (b. 2004), though they later divorced. He is currently married to Mika Shoemaker, with whom he has a son Jackson (b. 2009) and daughter Chloe (b. 2014).

In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate in Humanities/Humanistic Studies from California University of Pennsylvania.

• Elevate Film Festival Best Supporting Actor
• American Comedy Awards Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic (1997)
• Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards (two wins) (1986)

• The Lovemaster (1997)
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Safe House (1998)
• Pleasantville (1998)
• Comic Relief 2006 (2006)
• Totally Baked: A Pot-u-Mentary (2007)
• Dark Honeymoon (2008)
• Craig Shoemaker: The Lovemaster... Unzipped (2008)
• Should’ve Been Romeo (2012)
• MIddleman (2016)

• Matlock (1990)
• FBI: The Untold Stories (1991)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993)
• Real Funny on ABC (1996)
• Cow and Chicken (1997)
• I Am Weasel (1997–1999)
• My Generation Host on VH1 (1998)
• The Hughleys (2001)
• Family Law (2001)
• Teamo Supremo (2002–2004)
• Totally Baked (2008)
• Dark Honeymoon (2008)
• Unzipped 1-hour special on Comedy Central (2008)
• Daditude (2012)
• Parks and Recreation (2013)
• The Bold and the Beautiful (2013)
• The View 4x
• Awkward (2014)
• Middle Man (2015)

• Shoemaker, Craig; Kushner, Sarah (illustrator); Novak, Robert; Bennett, Marc (2002). What You Have Now ... What Your Daddy Had Then. Bennett/Novak and Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0971345409
• Shoemaker, Craig; Kushner, Sarah (illustrator) (2004). What You Have Now ... What Your Mommy Had Then. Bennett/Novak and Company, Inc. ISBN 9780971345423
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