![]() ![]() In 2009, while Riggle was still working for The Daily Show, he trained Marines how to properly respond to media requests. In 2007, he went to Iraq for a segment on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and to entertain his fellow troops with the United Service Organizations. Riggle was able to incorporate his experience in the Marine Corps into his career in the entertainment business. ![]() Marine Corps Reserve while simultaneously working as an actor and comedian in a variety of shows and movies, including “Saturday Night Live,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “The Daily Show.” After his two tours, he returned to the U.S. Riggle deployed to Afghanistan after he volunteered to return to active duty during this period of 9/11 recovery. He was asked to report to Ground Zero the day after the September 11 attacks to assist in the search for survivors. Marine Corps Reserve as a New York City-based public affairs officer. In 1999, while his career in entertainment began to take flight, Riggle joined the U.S. His service led him to many countries, including Kosovo, Liberia, Albania and Afghanistan. As part of the command element and, due to his military occupational specialty, Riggle served in a variety of units, including the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, United States Central Command, 3rd Battalion and 5th Special Forces Group. He served in active duty for nine years before joining the Reserve, where he became a public affairs officer. Riggle joined the Marine Corps in 1990 with the intention of becoming a naval aviator, but eventually left flight school to pursue comedy. He also attained his pilot’s license while earning his degree at the University of Kansas. He began acting in television and radio while attending Shawnee Mission South High School. was born in 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky, before moving to Kansas when he was two years old. You’re not taking ironing boards or anything.Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Robert Riggle Jr., an actor and comedian who spent his earlier years in the Marines. Before you were on the payroll of Holiday Inn Express, did you ever take anything home with you from hotels?īack in my college days, when times were lean, if I found myself in a hotel, there’s a good chance the shampoo left with me. Now let’s talk hotels! For one question at least. Did you ever see Princess Bride? Remember when the Dread Pirate Roberts jumped on Andre the Giant‘s back? I could see that happening in this particular scenario. OK, I think you’re going to take this guy: Aziz Ansari.ĭon’t underestimate Aziz. You know like Rocky beat on that slab of meat? That would be me. He would punch me once and he would probably knock my head physically off my body.Ĭhanning Tatum, he’s also a pretty buff dude.Ĭhanning is a fantastic athlete. Yeah, that would be over incredibly fast. Mark Wahlberg, he’s smaller than you but he’s pretty ripped. Then I’d pounce on him like a mountain lion on a wounded jogger.įerrell preparing for battle in “Step Brothers” But as we got to the later rounds, I think he’d get winded. How about Will Ferrell, who’s probably about your size, although a bit older a bit fatter? I’m going to throw some of your former co-stars your way and you tell me how you would have done in the cage against them. OK, I just wanted to ask you that to tee up my next questions. When I was in flight school, we had to go through boxing as well. Yeah, it’s called MCMAP, the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, and everyone has to go through it. You have some hand-to-hand combat training of your own from when you were in Marines, right? How he does against Mayweather will be fascinating to see but I don’t think it’s going to be that close of a fight. When he’s in the Octagon, he can use all his resources. Conor is, I don’t know him as a standup boxer, I know him as a UFC fighter. Mayweather is undefeated and his defense is incredible. I don’t know how satisfying the actual fight will be. I think it’ll have all the pomp and circumstance and all the hype. I think it’s definitely what the people want. ![]() I know you’re a big sports fan, and a UFC fan in particular, what’s your take on the biggest sports story in the land: Mayweather vs. So I started screaming “pow!” at one point just because it was making Will laugh if I punctuated everything Adam said with a “pow!” That’s the great thing about working with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, you get to improvise and that’s how I came up, doing improv. If you get the DVD you can see the original scene in the deleted scenes, where I have a heart attack. Let’s talk about the introduction of the Catalina Wine Mixer scene and your famous “pow!” line. ![]()
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