Airing after Roseanne on ABC, the show lasted 18 episodes. In 1992, Arnold starred in his own sitcom, The Jackie Thomas Show. The couple's marriage attracted media and especially tabloid attention due to their sometimes outrageous behavior. Arnold wrote himself into the show as the character 'Arnie Thomas' (a play on his name). He married her in 1990, after she divorced her first husband. In the early 1980s, Arnold had a prop-based comedy routine called 'Tom Arnold and the Goldfish Review.' Roseanne Barr brought him in as a writer for her television sitcom, Roseanne. JSTOR ( March 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. He attended Ottumwa High School, Indian Hills Community College, and from 1981 to 1983, the University of Iowa, where he studied business administration and writing. Īrnold escaped his sister's fate, and worked at a meatpacking plant. Soon Lori was a heavy drug user and dealer running one of the largest meth operations in the Midwest until her arrest in 1989. With her mother's consent, Lori was married at age 14 to a man who was 23 years old. In their teens, Arnold and his sister moved back in with their mother. That left them in the care of a father in his early 20s whose role as breadwinner left him little time for parenting, Arnold said. The three were still very young when their mother, who Tom Arnold said was an alcoholic, moved out. His mother abandoned the family when he was a child, and he and his siblings were raised by their father:

As a child, Arnold was diagnosed with autism. He had 2 siblings: a sister Lori and a brother Scott. He was also the host of The Best Damn Sports Show Period for four years, and appeared on Sons of Anarchy.Īrnold was born Thomas Duane Arnold in Ottumwa, Iowa, the son of Linda Kay (née Graham) and Jack Arnold. He has appeared in several films, including True Lies (1994), Nine Months (1995), Big Bully (1996), Carpool (1996), McHale's Navy (1997), Animal Factory (2000), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Mr. He is best known for playing Arnie Thomas on Roseanne, which starred his ex-wife Roseanne Barr. Thomas Duane Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.

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