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Kevin George Knipfing (born April 26, 1965), known professionally as Kevin James, is an American comedian and actor. He began his career by performing stand-up at comedy clubs on Long Island in the 1980s. He rose to prominence for his portrayal of Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), for which he received the nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006. In 2004, James made his first film appearance in 50 First Dates, and the following year co-starred in Hitch with Will Smith. He went on to star in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Pixels (2015). He has also done voice work for Monster House, Barnyard (both 2006), and the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018). He also was nominated for a People's Choice Award in 2017 for his role on the CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait (2016–2018). James also had several dramatic roles, including The Dilemma (2011) Little Boy (2015) and Becky (2020). Early life Kevin George Knipfing was born in Mineola, New York, on April 26, 1965, to American office worker Janet Klein and German-American insurance agency owner Joseph Valentine Knipfing Jr. He grew up in Stony Brook, New York. He has a sister named Leslie and an older brother named Gary, the latter of whom also became a comedian and actor under the name Gary Valentine. The siblings were raised Catholic. James graduated from Ward Melville High School, where he reached the top position on the wrestling team, one spot above his friend and future professional wrestler Mick Foley. Both wrestled in the Heavyweight weight class. When James suffered a season-ending back injury, Foley took over the first string position. Both men went on to study at the State University of New York at Cortland, where James played halfback on the varsity football team until another back injury permanently ended his sporting ambitions. Career Stand-up James began doing stand-up comedy in 1989, making his debut at Richie Minervini's East Side Comedy Club on Long Island. He also started performing comedy with a troupe at the club, during which time he adopted "James" as his stage surname in honor of his favorite school teacher. He gained popularity through numerous appearances on various talk shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dennis Miller Live, The Late Late Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. James was listed at No. 76 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians. James has also done his stand-up routine on Just for Laughs, an annual comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec. Later he was on commercials for Mazzio's Italian Eatery. In 2001, James did his own stand-up special called Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff. He has also appeared as a musical guest on Just for Laughs. In 2018, James released another stand-up special on Netflix called Kevin James: Never Don't Give Up. In 2024, James released his third special on Amazon Prime Video called Kevin James: Irregardless. Television James' first television job was in 1991 on The New Candid Camera, where he used his comedy timing and improvisation skills playing the actor that pulled practical jokes on unsuspecting people. He appeared in A&E's An Evening at the Improv in 1994. James appeared on television as the announcer for the MTV sports game show SandBlast from 1994 to 1996. James later moved to Los Angeles and befriended Ray Romano, and he guest-starred on a few episodes of Romano's hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. These appearances led to the development of his own sitcom, The King of Queens, which ran on the same network from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, James played working class parcel delivery man Doug Heffernan who works for a company known as IPS. He is married to Carrie (Leah Remini), a sharp-tongued, ambitious secretary at a Manhattan law firm who is far less content with working-class life in Queens. Her obsessive, vindictive father, Arthur (Jerry Stiller), who is prone toward bizarre conduct, lives with them. For his work on the eighth season, James was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006. James hosted the 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards on March 27, 2010. He was nominated to be the inaugural member of the "Arm Fart Hall of Fame" in the following year's show, with host Jack Black calling him Kevin "Not-Quite-As-Good-As-Me" James. He and fellow nominee Kaley Cuoco lost in fan voting to Josh Duhamel. James starred in the sitcom Kevin Can Wait, which premiered on September 19, 2016. The series was renewed for a second season, before being canceled at the season's end. In 2021, James released a new show on Netflix called The Crew. It was canceled after one season. Film After a cameo in 50 First Dates in 2004, James made his starring film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, alongside Will Smith and Eva Mendes. In 2006, he co-starred with his Everybody Loves Raymond colleague Ray Romano in the straight-to-video comedy Grilled, and provided voice work in the animated films Monster House and Barnyard. James co-starred with Adam Sandler in the comedies I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) and You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), and starred in the Sandler-produced comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009). The latter film opened as the No. 1 film in North America with a weekend gross of $39 million, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews, and eventually grossed $219 million from ticket and home video sales. James also appeared in Grown Ups (2010), which co-starred numerous Saturday Night Live alumni and was even more universally panned, yet was highly successful at the box office and led to a sequel in 2013. In 2011, he had a lead role with Vince Vaughn in the comedy-drama The Dilemma and then with Rosario Dawson in Zookeeper, which he wrote and produced. James also had the lead role in the 2012 mixed martial arts comedy film Here Comes the Boom. He starred as well in the movie Pixels in 2015 and the following year in True Memoirs of an International Assassin, directed by Jeff Wadlow and released by Netflix on November 11, 2016. In 2017, James co-starred with Adam Sandler in another Netflix film, Sandy Wexler. James had a lead dramatic role in the 2020 thriller film Becky. He starred as NFL head coach Sean Payton in the 2022 biographical film Home Team. In 2023, James starred in the action-comedy film Guns Up, directed by Edward John Drake. Other work In 2007, he was the grand marshal for the Pepsi 400 promoting I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and saying "Gentlemen, start your engines". He did it again in June 2010 with friend and fellow actor Adam Sandler to promote Grown Ups, in 2012 at the fall Talladega .... Discover the Kevin James popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kevin James books.
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Hoop Atlas
Kirk GoldsberryThe bestselling author of Sprawlball, Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a bookequal parts Book of Basketball and Shea Serranothat uses sharp writin...
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Lebron James and Kevin Durant
Belmont and Belcourt BiographiesLebron James and Kevin Durant are international superstars. This book follows both men's lives from their humble beginnings to becoming two of the best basketball players in the wo...
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Life and Laughing
Michael McIntyreDiscover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official autobiography'This book showed me the REAL Michael McIntyre'...
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Basketball
Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew & Dan KloresNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketballits eyeopening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its ...
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When Kids Kill
Jonathan PaulJonathan Paul goes behind the sensationalist headlines of 'child killers' to investigate why these crimes happen. He examines child homicide in today's violent, confusing world and...
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The Big Three
Michael HolleySelected by the Wall Street Journal among the Best Sports Books of 2021A New York Times bestselling sportswriter tells the inside story of how three star players joined together to...
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Crap-Free Guide to iPhone Photography
J. Kevin WolfeThe CrapFree Guide to iPhone Photography gets right down to the best advice on taking better photos and is updated for the latest iPhone. It's useful for those shooting with any iO...
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The Hotel Between
Sean Easley“Magic and mystery draw you [in]…Can I make a reservation yet?” James Riley, New York Times bestselling author of the Story Thieves series “A wild ride across the globe, full of fu...
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Straight Shooter
Stephen A. SmithAN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEAmerica’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times ...
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The Devil Himself
Peter FarrisFor Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, sizzles with pageburning suspense and bewitching characters. Deep in the forest o...
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State Minnesota v. Kevin James Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina1. The prosecutions failure to inform the grand jury of prior inconsistent statements made by witnesses is not grounds for dismissing the indictment where that information would no...
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Golden
Marcus ThompsonThe #1 national bestseller and inside story of Steph Curry, the greatest shooter basketball has ever seen.Golden is the first book to provide an allaccess look at Steph Curry and t...
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Memoirs of a Professional Letter Writer
James E WolfeAn autobiography of a dedicated labor educator and writer from 1994.
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The Game
George Howe ColtA New York Times Notable Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a wellblended narrative pa...
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How to Grow Old
John BishopSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it’s getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of a...
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In The Shadows
Gilles Boyer & Édouard PhilippeLoved House of Cards?'Utterly fascinating.' Perlustra'Absolutely brilliant.' BertrandHe thought the worst was behind them. The primaries done and dusted. The Presidency within ar...
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Meditations
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become on...
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Golf Swing Secrets
Kevin James Joseph McNamaraAs a golfer you know how bad it can be if you hit the ball too short for each drive. It can cost you the game and a really bad score. If you need to learn how to hit the ball a bit...
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Year of Purple Lawn Furniture
J. Kevin WolfePoetry from the dawn of the New Millennium. Includes 75 poems about what life was like at the beginning of the digital age.
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Podkin and the Singing Spear
Kieran LarwoodPodkin is now Keeper of the Gifts which is a tremendously important job and just a tiny bit boring. It doesn't help that there are still three gifts missing Podkin can't stop him...
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Kevin Durant
Real Sports NetworkLearn about NBA superstar Kevin Durant in this book in a nonfiction series about your favorite athletes’ childhoods and what (or who) helped them become the stars they are today!He...
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Hostile Territory
William W. Johnstone & J.A. JohnstoneGunfighters Preacher and Jamie MacCallister keep the peace on the Oregon Trail in the latest novel in the Preacher & Jamie MacCallister Western series from national bestselling...
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Little, Crazy Children
James RennerA new truecrime book from the acclaimed author of TRUE CRIME ADDICT and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime! James Renner explores the uns...
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Straight Outta Crawley
Romesh RanganathanTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStraight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.'Very, very funny. I can't recommend it highly enou...
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Find Your Hero Chapter Sampler
Kevin Sands, James Riley, J. D. Rinehart, Jonathan Maberry, Kevin Sylvester & Robert VendittiWith six exciting reads to choose from, young readers can seek action and adventure alongside the hero of their choice. Featuring excerpts from: The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands S...
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How to Stop Acting
Harold Guskin"The Great Guskin" (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an "acting doctor" whose cl...
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Having it So Good
Peter HennessyWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the shadow o...
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The Key of Lost Things
Sean EasleyWith the help of a magical key, Cam searches for his missing friendwho just might be the Hotel’s newest enemyin this thrilling sequel to The Hotel Between, which New York Times bes...
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Too Much
Tom Allen'An extraordinary portrait of a son navigating his way through grief and loss in real time. Funny, candid, and measured' GRAHAM NORTONHappily settled in a new relationship and with...
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Boom Town
Sam AndersonA brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma Citya great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from awardwinning journalist Sam AndersonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
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The Rodfather
Roddy Collins & Paul HowardThe hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at sixteen clubs), manager (twelve clubs) a...
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Nine Inch Nails
Martin HuxleySound, throb, and a long low wail of pure, hard pain... Nine Inch Nails. The world's most disturbing rock band is in effect one man singer and songwriter Trent Reznor. Since steali...
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
Lu Xun & Julia LovellLu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Ch...
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Chasing The Light
Oliver StoneAn intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscarwinning director and screenwriter Oliver Stone Before moving to Los Angeles and the international success of Platoon in 1986...
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Own The Moment
Carl LentzThis engaging and inspirational book by Carl Lentz, the rock star pastor of Hillsong NYC, shows us the way toward a more connected, spirituallygrounded, and fulfilled life.When you...
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KD
Marcus ThompsonGolden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson “paints a complex portrait and captures all the multitudes of a dynamic athlete trying to carve his legacy” (Jo...
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Sprawlball
Kirk GoldsberryFrom the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, how well, and why. Says Nate Silver: “I...
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Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha GodAn instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha Godthe selfproclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, and “the most important voic...