A stand up comic at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Detroit, featuring the talents of Tim Allen and D.B. Dickerson (imdb.com)
Born in San Francisco, Pollak lived and worked in the Bay Area until he was 26. (imdb.com)
Runs Calm Down Productions with wife Lucy Webb. (imdb.com)
Started his stand-up career when he was 17 years old. (imdb.com)
He got his first paid job as a comedian when he was 18 years old, working one night in a nightclub in the city of Campbell, California. Seven years later, in 1982, Pollak took second place in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Exactly one year after that, he moved to Los Angeles to begin a film and television career. (imdb.com)
Was in two movies with the line "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making the world believe he didn't exist" (The Usual Suspects (1995) and End of Days (1999). Then eventually played the devil in Deal of a Lifetime (1999). (imdb.com)
He has been playing poker for over 30 years. (imdb.com)
Started out with stand-up comedy and is a great impressionist. (imdb.com)
Shares a birthday with his own father. (imdb.com)
He does "dead on" impersonations of Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro, Alan Arkin, Jack Nicholson, Peter Falk, and, most notoriously, William Shatner. (imdb.com)
Does such a good impression of Alan Arkin that a message he left on Alan Arkin's answering machine confused Alan Arkin into thinking he had left himself a message. (imdb.com)
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