Biography

Graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

Rushed to a New Jersey hospital on September 25, 2010, after an accidental drug overdose.

Despite his multiple appearances on the Comedy Central Roasts, being a series regular on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil (2008), and even having his own show on the network, he had only one stand-up special on Comedy Central, which was the 2009 "Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices" (2009) (TV)_ show.

Was a lawyer for less than a year before he changed his profession to comedy.

On March 18, 2011, Comedy Central aired a tribute to Greg titled Give It Up for Greg Giraldo (2011). Fellow comedians Sarah Silverman, 'Nick Swardson'', Lewis Black, Conan O'Brien, Denis Leary, Dave Attell, and Jeffrey Ross (to name a few) gave very emotional heartfelt condolences to Greg.

[on Christianity] The Virgin Mary... We have a whole religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?