Jimmy Dore

James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, podcaster, and YouTube personality. He is the host of '' The Jimmy Dore Show'', a comedic talk show on YouTube where he interviews guests of a political, economic, comedic, or scientific nature. Dore's material is often presented in a satirical way that involves sketch comedy routines.

Dore started as a comedian in Illinois in 1989 and made several appearances on late-night comedy shows early in his comedy career. From 2005 onward, his performances increasingly included political commentary. Dore was affiliated with ''The Young Turks'' from 2009 to 2019 and appeared on a Young Turks Network show titled ''Aggressive Progressives.'' From 2010–2021 ''The Jimmy Dore Show'' was broadcast on public radio station KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, California.

Early life

Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. He was raised in the blue-collar neighborhood of South Side.

Dore has eleven siblings and is the youngest of seven boys.Dickinson, Chrissie (July 11, 2019)
"Jimmy Dore uses all kinds of media to make his comedic voice as loud as possible"
''Chicago Tribune''. Due to his large family, Dore grew accustomed to playing to an audience early in life, and he used comedy to avoid beatings from his older brothers. Dore's father was a policeman who owned a brickwork business. Dore has described his father as being a Reagan Democrat, and in Dore's senior year of high school, he argued with his father against Ronald Reagan's presidency.

He attended Catholic schools for twelve years, which he felt were very strict, followed by Illinois State University, dropping out after three years and gaining employment as a forklift driver. He later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.

Career

Comedy

Dore started performing stand-up comedy Chicago in 1989. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles, where his first big break was an appearance on Comedy Central's ''Make Me Laugh''. He has said he began pursuing his career after watching many late-night talk shows and thinking he could do better than them. The stand-up comedians that influenced Dore include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Hicks.

Dore has made appearances as a stand-up comic on late-night television shows such as ABC's ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', CBS's ''The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn'', and NBC's ''Late Friday''. He was the lead performer in a ''Comedy Central Presents'' half-hour special on April 9, 2004. He was also a writer-performer for the off-Broadway show '' The Marijuana-Logues'', which ran at the Actor's Playhouse in New York City.

Dore has performed at the Tropicana Comedy Stop in Las Vegas, the Palms' Playboy Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star in Reno, and Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip. He has performed at several comedy festivals, including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, and has also performed for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Starting in 2005, Dore moved away from a standard stand-up set to a 50-minute show, which he would later take on tour. Dore launched the new show, ''Citizen Jimmy'', at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB Theatre) in Hollywood. Dore's new act incorporated video clips of politicians, journalists, TV personalities and entertainers, and he expressed surprise that no one else was doing it.

Dore's comedy style was described in 2006 by '' The Central New Jersey Home News Tribune'' as incendiary and "based on what makes most in the States angry and uncomfortable." An article in the ''Chicago Tribune'' compared Dore's stand-up, where he "riffs off the faux pas and flubs of famous folks", to Jon Stewart's ''The Daily Show''.

In May 2008, Dore launched the podcast ''Comedy and Everything Else''. The show was co-hosted by Todd Glass, who departed from the show in late 2009, and then by Dore's wife Stefane Zamorano. Comedians who were guests on the podcast included Jim Gaffigan, David Spade, Maria Bamford and Kyle Cease.

In August 2008, Comedy Central aired Dore's hour-long special ''Citizen Jimmy'', based on his UCB show of the same name. The special was chosen "Best of 2008" by iTunes, and its accompanying DVD was cited as one of the five best comedy DVDs of the year by ''Punchline Magazine''. That year, Dore also appeared in the documentary film '' Super High Me''.

Dore hosted a monthly show, ''Left, Right & Ridiculous'', at the UCB Theatre. His first book, ''Your Country Is Just Not That Into You'', was published in 2014. Another comedy special, ''Sentenced to Live'', was released on October 6, 2015.

''The Jimmy Dore Show''

In June 2009, Dore began producing ''The Jimmy Dore Show'', a weekly one-hour comedic look at the news, which originated at KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and aired nationally on the Pacifica Radio Network, ending in 2021. The show aired online via political commentary show ''The Young Turks'' TYT Network from 2009 to 2019. Dore appeared as a frequent guest host on Current TV's broadcast television version of TYT, '' The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur'', and continued working with Uygur on ''The Young Turks'' online. In June 2012, Dore launched an incarnation of ''The Jimmy Dore Show'' on YouTube via the TYT Network show ''The Point with Ana Kasparian''. Dore soon launched his own YouTube channel, broadcasting from his garage, which by 2019 featured near-daily videos and weekly livestreams. In July 2017, Dore began hosting his own show on the TYT network called "Aggressive Progressives".

A 2017 article in ''The Boston Globe'' said YouTube demonetization was not only impacting hate videos, but also controversial content from people such as Dore and Trump supporters, Diamond and Silk.

On April 13, 2019, during a livestream, Dore officially announced his departure from the TYT Network, citing a desire to focus on his own show and his live performances.

Controversies

In a July 2020 video, Dore erroneously said Joe Biden had once "hosted a black face affair with a bunch of rich white people", showing an altered clip that had been circulating on social media since January which had darkened the face of black singer Jerome Powell. The video received over 100,000 views in one day and has since been removed from YouTube.

In January 2021, Dore interviewed Zackary Clark, a member of the anti-government, far-right extremist Boogaloo movement. Clark used the pseudonym "Magnus Panvidya". Dore tweeted that he was "completely floored" to have learned during the course of the interview that Panvidya supported Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ rights and opposed racism, police brutality, war and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In an opinion piece for ''The Daily Beast'', Alexander Reid Ross described Dore's interview as being a "public-relations disaster". According to Ross, filmmaker Rod Webber told Dore in a subsequent interview that he should "vet eople like Panvidyamore before putting them out on the internet to tons of people, to let them just say what they want to say unchecked."

Discussion of conspiracy theories

In May 2017, Dore discussed conspiracy theories on the murder of Seth Rich on his show. According to ''Salon'', Dore continued to insist that there were "a lot of red flags" and there was "probably something more to this story" after the source of much of the conspiracy theory was discredited. In December 2020, an article in ''New York'' magazine said Dore's discernment was questionable, due in part to his "promotion of conspiracy theories implicating the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Seth Rich's death".

In 2017, Dore argued that the chemical weapons attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhun was likely to have been a "false flag", orchestrated by groups opposed to Bashar al-Assad. The investigative journalism site Bellingcat reported that Dore received $2,500 from the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees in 2017. The Association is responsible for the Serena Shim Award and is described by Bellingcat as a pro-Assad lobby group. According to Bellingcat, Dore featured Eva Bartlett in "another 2017 conspiracy-theory segment" about Syria.

In 2018, according to Stephen Shalom writing in '' New Politics'', Dore cited an op-ed which quoted US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis out of context as saying that he did not have evidence that the nerve agent sarin

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