Michael David Rapaport (born March 20 1970 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and a comedian. He has acted in more than twenty films since the early 1990s. Rapaport idolized other New Yorkers Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken as a teenager. He was expelled from high school and moved to Los Angeles to try stand-up comedy.He has appeared in both dramatic and comedic roles in film and television.