![]() On February 18, 2018, Rapaport was fired from Barstool Sports after making a rude comment toward their fan base. On June 19, 2017, Rapaport announced on Twitter that he would be joining the sports satire website Barstool Sports where he will be a correspondent for the podcast Pardon My Take. Other podcasts that Rapaport has appeared on include The Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr, Mailtime and Pardon My Take by Barstool Sports, The Adam Carolla Show, The Fighter and The Kid, Unqualified, The Bill Simmons Podcast and its predecessor, The BS Report The Chive Podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, His & Hers Podcast, Cari Champion's Podcast, The Joey Boots Show, The Dirty Sports Podcast and more. Rapaport hosts the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast on the CBS Local radio network with childhood friend Gerald Moody. Rapaport is a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM, and participates in the show staff's fantasy football league. The film was about the 1970s championship-winning New York Knicks led by Earl Monroe, Walt Frazier, and Willis Reed. On April 17, 2014, an ESPN 30 for 30 film he directed premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. On February 12, 2010, Rapaport participated in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Celebrity Game and was named the MVP because of his defense on football player Terrell Owens, the MVP of the last two Celebrity Games, despite scoring just four points and having only a single rebound. Rapaport guest starred in the fifth season of the FX series Justified as villain Daryl Crowe Jr, kingpin of the Crowe family. The film, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, was released in 2011 and received mostly positive reviews. In October 2008, Rapaport announced that he was directing a documentary about hip hop act A Tribe Called Quest. He played one of the main characters in the season four of Prison Break as Homeland Security Agent Don Self. His character was the reason for many of the things in Earl's life, such as indirectly giving Earl his trailer and El Camino after a botched robbery with his partner, Paco. ![]() Rapaport had a recurring role in My Name Is Earl as Frank, a convict Earl reunites with in prison. His big break in acting was on the TV series China Beach. Rapaport's stepfather, comic Mark Lonow, who owned The Improv with Budd Friedman, helped him get into the stand-up world. In 1989, Rapaport moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19 years old to try to become a stand-up comic. He graduated from Martin Luther King High School in Manhattan. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but was expelled. He is Ashkenazi Jewish his family is originally from Poland and Russia. ![]() Rapaport grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near 70th Street and York Avenue. After his parents divorced, Rapaport's mother married comic Mark Lonow, who owned The Improv with Budd Friedman. He has a brother named Eric Rapaport and an older half-sister named Claudia Lonow (née Rapaport) via his father's prior marriage. Rapaport was born in New York City, the son of June Brody, a New York radio personality, and David Rapaport, a radio executive who was the general manager of the All-Disco format at New York radio station WKTU Disco 92. Active on several podcasts, he is the host of the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast. Outside of his acting career, Rapaport directed the 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest about the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Rapaport held recurring roles on the NBC sitcoms Friends (1999) and My Name Is Earl (2007–2008) and the FX Western Justified (2014). On television, he headlined the Fox sitcom The War at Home (2005–2007) and was a series regular on the Fox drama Boston Public (2001–2004), the fourth season of the Fox serial drama Prison Break (2008–2009), and the Netflix comedy drama Atypical (2017–2021). His film roles include True Romance (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Metro (1997), Cop Land (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The 6th Day (2000), Dr. Beginning his career in the early 1990s, he has made over 100 appearances in film and television. ![]() Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and comedian.
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