Joey Diaz

**José Antonio Díaz** (an haife shi a ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, 1963), wanda aka fi sani da **Joey** "Co" **Diaz**, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Cuban Am*ER*, ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa, kuma marubuci. Bayan ya bi wasan kwaikwayo na cikakken lokaci a 1991 a Colorado da Seattle, ya koma Los Angeles a 1995, inda ya fara yin wasan kwaikwayo, yana samun matsayi daban-daban na fina-finai da talabijin ciki har da BASEketball, Analyze That, *Takis*, Rules Don't Apply, ER, da *Maron*.

A shekara ta 2010, Diaz ya fara samun kulawa sosai daga bayyanarsa a kan The Joe Rogan Experience podcast . Daga 2012 zuwa 2020, ya kasance mai karɓar bakuncin nasa kwasfan fayiloli, The Church of What's Happening Now tare da Lee Syatt, kuma tun daga lokacin ya dauki bakuncin Uncle Joey's Joint.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi José Antonio Díaz  a Havana, Cuba a 1963. Ya yi hijira zuwa Amurka tare da mahaifiyarsa yana da shekaru uku, jim kadan bayan mahaifinsa ya mutu. Sun zauna a Upper West Side na Manhattan, New York kafin su koma Arewacin Bergen, New Jersey, lokacin da yake da shekaru 10,   wani gari da shi da mahaifiyarsa ne kawai mazaunan Cuban Amurka a lokacin. Mahaifiyar Diaz ta gudanar da mashaya a Union City, New Jersey da kuma nasarar yin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Bronx .  Diaz ya girma Katolika kuma yana jin daɗin koyon labarun game da Francis na Assisi da Saint Michael tun yana yaro. Ya halarci Makarantar Jama'a ta 166 a Manhattan daga makarantar sakandare zuwa aji na biyu,  Makarantar Zuciya Mai Tsarki don Yara a Kearny, New Jersey, daga aji na uku zuwa na biyar,  sannan zuwa Makarantar McKinley a Arewacin Bergen, inda aka buƙaci ya sake maimaita aji na bakwai. Ya tafi Makarantar Sakandare ta Arewacin Bergen,  inda ya lashe kyaututtuka na wasan kwaikwayo  kuma ya kammala karatu daga makarantar sakandare a 1982.  

## Ayyuka

### Wasan kwaikwayo na tsaye
Bayan ganin fim din *Punchline* na 1988, Diaz ya amsa wani talla a cikin jaridar Denver don karatun wasan kwaikwayo na $ 37, kuma ya haɓaka aikin wasan kwaikwayo na shuɗi. Kafin ya yi aikinsa na farko, ya yi aiki a matsayin mai tsaron ƙofa a Wit's End.

Diaz ya yi aikinsa na farko a ranar 18 ga Yuni, 1991, a Comedy Works a Denver, a wani wasan kwaikwayon da Matt Woods ya gabatar. A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1992, kafin ya fara aiki da Troy Baxley a Boulder, Colorado, Diaz ya sha cocaine kafin ya shiga mataki kuma yana da saiti wanda ya bayyana a matsayin " bala'i". Daga nan sai ya daina shan abu kafin wasan kwaikwayon. Bayan ya bunkasa aikinsa, Diaz ya shiga gasar Beck's Amateur Comedy kuma ya lashe. Da farko ya rasa wani gasa har sai an kama wanda ya ci nasara yana satar ba'a da Jerry Seinfeld ya yi sananne kuma an ayyana Diaz a matsayin mai nasara. Diaz ya yi iƙirarin manajan Comedy Works Wende Curtis ya yi masa alkawarin jirgin zuwa Los Angeles don nunawa a The Comedy Store ga mai shi Mitzi Shore, amma bai taɓa karɓar ko ɗaya ba.

### Fim da talabijin
A shekara ta 1998, Diaz ya sami kwangila don yin tauraruwa a cikin matukin talabijin, yana wasa da mai shayarwa a cikin jerin da ake kira Bronx County, bayan wani mai binciken baiwa a CBS ya gan shi yana yin wasan kwaikwayo a Seattle. Wannan tayin ya kasance abin mamaki ga Diaz, wanda da farko bai yarda da shi ba har sai da ya ga mai binciken baiwa yana da tikiti don ya tashi zuwa Los Angeles don harbi. Ba a karɓi jerin ba, amma damar ta haifar da ƙarin aiki ga Diaz, gami da tayin a cikin fim dinsa na farko, alƙali a BASEketball (1998), da kuma wani ɓangare a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na *[[NYPD Blue]]* . A shekara ta 2000, an nuna Diaz a cikin You Got Nothin' (2003), fim mai zaman kansa. Sashe na Analyze That (2002), wanda ya fito da Diaz, an yi fim a Hudson County, New Jersey. Ya ce, "Wannan ya kasance babba a gare ni, (don) iya dawowa gida don yin fim".

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