Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller.

After high school, he played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and The Other Café, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. Schneider started his stand-up comedy career while still in high school, opening for San Francisco favorites Head On, a band managed by his older brother John. JSTOR ( June 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982 and then attended San Francisco State University. His mixed background is a common theme in his comedy acts. Schneider's maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married his grandfather, a white American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines.

His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. His parents were Pilar (née Monroe), a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider, a real estate broker. Schneider was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. 2.3 Feature films, sitcoms, and endorsements.

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