He has continued to take starring roles in films, including Captain George Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man and Cleveland Browns head coach Vince Penn in Draft Day.

Leary has done voice work, including Francis in A Bug's Life and Diego in the Ice Age franchise.

Denis Colin Leary was born on August 18, 1957,[1] in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Catholic immigrant parents from Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland.

[14] In May 2005 he received an honorary doctorate and spoke at his alma mater's undergraduate commencement ceremony;[15] and is credited as Dr. Denis Leary on the cover of his 2009 book Why We Suck.

Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influences in the Boston comedy scene in the documentary film When Standup Stood Out (2006).

Leary appeared in sketches on the MTV game show Remote Control, playing characters such as Keith Richards, co-host Colin Quinn's brother and artist Andy Warhol.

Several other commercials for MTV quickly followed, in which Leary would rant at high speeds about a variety of topics, playing off the then-popular and growing alternative scene.

In late 2004, he released the EP Merry F %$in' Christmas, which included a mix of new music, previously unreleased recordings and some tracks from Lock 'n Load.

[citation needed] In 1993, Leary's sardonic song "Asshole", about the stereotypical American male, achieved much notoriety.

1 in an Australian radio poll[16] and was used in Holsten Pils ads in the UK, with Leary's participation, and with adapted lyrics criticizing a drunk driver.

[19] Leary has appeared in many films, including The Sandlot as Scott's stepfather Bill, Monument Ave., The Matchmaker, The Ref, Draft Day, Suicide Kings, Dawg, Wag the Dog, Demolition Man (as an Emmanuel Goldstein-esque revolutionary to Nigel Hawthorne's Big Brother), Judgment Night, The Thomas Crown Affair and Operation Dumbo Drop.

[citation needed] As a Boston Red Sox fan, Leary narrated the official 2004 World Series film.

[23] Leary did the TV voiceover for MLB 2K8 advertisements, using his trademark rant style in baseball terms, and ads for the 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck.

[citation needed] Leary was a producer of the Fox series Canterbury's Law, and wrote and directed its pilot episode.

On September 9, 2008, Leary hosted the sixth annual Fashion Rocks event, which aired on CBS.

[29] Leary created a television series for FX called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, taking the starring role himself.

In 2022, he was cast in the recurring role of Frank Donnelly, an NYPD officer on Law & Order: Organized Crime.

[36] Ann Leary published a memoir, An Innocent, a Broad, about the premature birth of their son on a visit to London.

[37] Her essay in a New York Times column about her marriage to Denis inspired the Modern Love series Episode 4: "Rallying to Keep the Game Alive".

Since its creation in the year 2000, the foundation has distributed over $2.5 million (USD) to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston and New York City areas for equipment, training materials, new vehicles and new facilities.

[47] At least three stand-up comedians have gone on the record stating they believe Leary stole Hicks' material, comedic persona and attitude.

[46][48][49] One similar routine was about the so-called Judas Priest "suicide trial," during which Hicks says, "I don't think we lost a cancer cure.

[51] The feud is also mentioned in Cynthia True's biography American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story: Leary was in Montreal to host the "Nasty Show," at Club Soda, and Colleen was coordinating the talent so she was standing backstage when she heard Leary doing material that sounded incredibly similar to old Hicks riffs, including his perennial Jim Fixx joke: ("Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut dude.

[52]According to the book, True said that upon hearing a tape of Leary's album No Cure for Cancer, "Bill was furious.

In his 2008 book Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, Leary wrote:There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks... to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons.

Or both.Leary later stated that the quote was taken out of context and that in that paragraph he had been talking about what he calls the trend of "unwarranted" over-diagnosis of autism, which he attributed to American parents seeking an excuse for behavioral problems and under-performance.