Kevin Smith's Green Hornet, Vol. 2 by Kevin Smith

Smith vowed never to work at something that he did not enjoy. His father grew to despise his job, which greatly influenced Smith, who remembers his father finding it difficult on some days to get up and go to work. Smith's childhood was scheduled around his father's late shifts at the post office.

He was raised in a Catholic household in the nearby clamming town of Highlands. He has two siblings: an older sister, Virginia, and an older brother, Donald Jr. Kevin Patrick Smith was born on August 2, 1970, in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Grace (née Schultz), a homemaker, and Donald E.

Since 1999, he has been married to actress and former reporter Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, with whom he has a daughter, Harley Quinn Smith named after the Batman character of the same name. He is known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith. As a podcaster, Smith cohosts several shows on his SModcast Podcast Network, including SModcast, Fatman Beyond, and the live show Hollywood Babble-On. He hosts the film review TV show Spoilers. Smith owns Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey, a comic book store which became the setting for the reality television show Comic Book Men (2012–2018). He has served as a director-for-hire for material he did not write, including the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out (2010) and various television series episodes, creating Masters of the Universe: Revelation in 2021. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including Red State (2011) and the comedy horror films Tusk (2014) and Yoga Hosers (2016), two in a planned series of three such films set in Canada dubbed the True North trilogy. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the ' View Askewniverse', named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.

He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster.

Kevin Smith's Green Hornet, Vol. 2 by Kevin Smith