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Jimmy Dore

Jimmy Dore is an American who does stand-up comedy and talks about politics. He runs The Jimmy Dore Show, a YouTube talk show that used to be part of The Young Turks. From a left-wing point of view, Dore's writings often criticize the Democratic Party.

Early Life

Dore's birthday is July 26, and he was born in the Southwest Side of Chicago, Illinois. He comes from a Catholic family with Polish and Irish roots. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood.

He has eleven brothers and sisters. Dore is the youngest of seven brothers. Dore has played for a crowd since his younger days because of his big family. He used comedy to keep his older brothers from beating him up. Dore's father was a police officer and also ran a business that made bricks. Dore has said that his father was a Democrat like Ronald Reagan. During Dore's senior year of high school, he and his father argued about how bad president Ronald Reagan was.

He spent twelve years at a Catholic school that he thought was very strict. Dore spent three years at Illinois State University before deciding to leave and pursue a career as a forklift driver instead. Later, he attended Columbia College Chicago and earned a degree in marketing communications. Dore began doing stand-up comedy in Chicago in 1989. In 1995, he moved to Los Angeles.

Career

In 1989, Jimmy Dore began his career as a comedian in Chicago. Dore claims he got the idea after becoming dissatisfied with the standard of late-night chat shows and deciding he could do better. Dore was influenced by stand-up comics like George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bill Hicks.

Dore was a stand-up comedian who appeared on late-night TV shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on CBS, and Late Friday on NBC. He was the star of a half-hour Comedy Central Presents special on April 9, 2004, and a one-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central called Citizen Jimmy, which iTunes called the "Best of 2008." New York's Actor's Playhouse presented his off-Broadway play, The Marijuana-Logues, in which he also appeared.

Dore has performed at the Tropicana's Comedy Stop, Catch A Rising Star in Reno, the Palms Playboy Comedy Club, and Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip. In 2008, he was in the documentary Super High Me.

He also had a monthly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood called Left, Right, and Ridiculous. On October 6, 2015, a comedy show called Sentenced to Live came out.