Joey Diaz

About

José Antonio Díaz (born February 19, 1963), also known as Joey “CoCo” Diaz, is a Cuban American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, and author. After pursuing stand-up comedy full time in 1991 in Colorado and Seattle, he moved to Los Angeles in 1995, where he began acting, securing various film and television roles including BASEketball, Analyze That, Taxi, Rules Don’t Apply, ER, and Maron.
In 2010, Diaz started to gain widespread attention from his appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. From 2012 to 2020, he was the host of his own podcast, The Church of What’s Happening Now with Lee Syatt, and has since hosted Uncle Joey’s Joint.

José Antonio Díaz was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963. He immigrated to the United States with his mother at age three, shortly after his father died. They lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York before moving to North Bergen, New Jersey, when he was 10, a town that he and his mother were the only Cuban American residents of at the time. Diaz’s mother ran a bar in Union City, New Jersey and a successful numbers game operation in The Bronx. Diaz grew up Catholic and enjoyed learning stories about Francis of Assisi and Saint…