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Schneider was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the nearby suburb of Pacifica. He is the son of Jewish-American real estate broker Marvin Schneider, and Pilar, a former kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president; his maternal grandfather was a European-American soldier and his maternal grandmother was Filipina. Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982. Schneider started his stand-up comedy career shortly after high school. The Pacifica, California native played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and the Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for NBC's long-running sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live.

He was hired at Saturday Night Live in 1988, and was the first Asian-American to be a cast member on the show (the second being current cast member Fred Armisen, who is part Japanese). Schneider swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member. From 1990-1994 at SNL, he played such roles as "Tiny Elvis" and "Orgasm Guy." His best known recurring character was "Richard Laymer" - an office worker whose desk was stuck beside the photocopier, and who addressed each of his fellow employees with an endless stream of annoying nicknames. Schneider is featured in the video release The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with colleagues Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and Chris Farley.

Schneider is a single father, with a daughter named Elle. He owns homes in San Francisco and Southern California.

In 1996, Schneider established the "Rob Schneider Music Foundation." The foundation brought back music education to Pacifica's elementary schools, by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to the creation of Schneider's foundation, twenty years had passed without music education in those schools.

Schneider has a keen interest in music, and at one point owned a San Francisco nightclub, DNA Lounge. Schneider is a devoted fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. He owns a West Highland white terrier named Oscar who has appeared in short films with Adam Sandler's bulldog.

Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in her son's films, playing a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick, a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and a nosy neighbor in The Animal.

Schneider is good friends with fellow SNL alums Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Norm Macdonald. He was good friends with Chris Farley until Farley died in 1997 from a drug overdose.