Jeselnik Biography
Anthony Jeselnik is a comedian, writer, producer, and actor from the United States. His dark humor style is well-known for its emphasis on ironic deception, non sequiturs, cutting remarks, haughty demeanors, and a stage character that regularly adopts psychopathic or amoral positions.
How old is Jeselnik? Age
The dark humor comedian is 45 years old as of 22 December 2023. He was born in 1978 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Jeselnik Family – Education
Jeselnik was bornto Stephanie Jeselnik, and Anthony Jeselnik. In 1997, Jeselnik received his diploma from Upper St. Clair High School. In 2001, he graduated from Tulane University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a minor in business. His fiancée unintentionally set fire to his apartment during his final year at Tulane; this incident would serve as inspiration for his early stand-up routines. During his time at Tulane University, he belonged to the fraternity Alpha Tau Omega. His first goal was to create the great American novel, but he was persuaded there were other career options for writers after doing an internship in Los Angeles between his junior and senior years of college.
Jeselnik Partner
Comedian Amy Schumer was Jeselnik’s past partner.
Jeselnik Net Worth
Anthony has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Jeselnik Netflix
2015 saw the critically lauded debut of Jeselnik’s third stand-up special, Thoughts and Prayers—his first for Netflix. For the first forty minutes of the hour-long presentation, Jeselnik delivers his signature dark humor; the final twenty minutes are devoted to personal experiences. He talks about receiving death threats, the Boston Marathon bombing, the cancellation of The Jeselnik Offensive, and the funeral of his grandmother. Netflix launched Jeselnik’s most recent stand-up special, Fire in the Maternity Ward, on April 30, 2019.
Jeselnik Podcast
The Rosenthal & Jeselnik Vanity Project (RJVP), hosted by Jeselnik and NFL Network’s Gregg Rosenthal, a fellow Tulane alumnus, debuted in October 2015 on NFL.com. In September 2018, Jeselnik made a comeback to Comedy Central by agreeing to a multi-platform development deal. This deal included new episodes of The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project (JRVP), a weekly podcast in which Jeselnik is joined by producer and NFL Network director Erica Tamposi, as well as his friend and NFL Network analyst Gregg Rosenthal. More than 240 episodes has been released as of April 2024.
Jeselnik Stand-Up
2009 saw the release of Jeselnik’s Comedy Central Presents stand-up special. Along with Nick Kroll, Aziz Ansari, Whitney Cummings, Donald Glover, Matt Braunger, T. J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, and Jon Lajoie, he was chosen one of Comedy Central’s breakout comedians of the year. Jeselnik began working as a writer for Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show in 2009. The ideal employment for him was to sit around a table and “throw out jokes with people you respected.” It was more popular than stand-up or his first comedy class. Jeselnik’s ideas would be consistently rejected because they were too dark after he was hired.
He battled, for instance, for a single joke on obesity every day for a month. Fallon enjoyed the joke, but he felt awkward telling it because it would probably make him less likeable to the obese. He frequently attended the Comedy Cellar in New York City’s Greenwich Village at this time. After putting in a lot of work for the show every day, Jeselnik would go to Comedy Cellar, get a “big stiff drink,” and perform his act while feeling “miserable.” He informed the show’s producers in March 2010 that he want to quit. “We understand—you want to go be Anthony Jeselnik,” they replied.
Shakespeare, his debut album, was recorded, and he started penning comedy central roasts in 2010. Known as “the Super Bowl of comedy,” roasts were Jeselnik’s favorite thing to write for in college and he constantly sought to write for them.Executives at Comedy Central saw Jeselnik as he was writing for the David Hasselhoff roast and extended an invitation for him to participate in the following roast. Aware that this would be his “big moment,” Jeselnik describes the Donald Trump roast as “one of my favorite moments of my life because nobody knew who I was and it really caught everybody off guard.” And my life was entirely changed the following day.” Although Jeselnik had previously been the featured comedian at clubs, his kind of comedy was largely unknown to the audience. Following the Trump roast, Jeselnik saw an increase in crowd size and a greater sense of comfort.
Quickly following his presentation, the organization offered Jeselnik a “three-point bargain” in which one gets an hour extraordinary, three Funny TV cooks, and an improvement bargain. Jeselnik proceeded to perform at two additional meals, the Fun times TV Dishes of Charlie Sheen in 2011 and Roseanne Barr in 2012.
Jeselnik showed up at the Force of Satire occasion in November 2012. In 2013, Jeselnik facilitated his own Good times TV series, The Jeselnik Hostile. In setting up the show, Good times TV was searching for a half-hour, a four-evenings seven days show following The Colbert Report named 12 PM. Jeselnik’s primary draw was the speech, where he believed he could make wisecracks that he couldn’t do on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. For the pilot, Jeselnik did a test interview with a VIP however felt “so off-base [… ] it just fit me like a terrible suit.” For the show’s most memorable episode, Jeselnik performs disease related remain standing for a malignant growth support bunch. “I needed to battle with Fun times TV to put that on the main episode,” said Jeselnik.
The organization felt uncomfortable involving the sketch as a presentation. Jeselnik highlighted the debut episode of Chappelle’s Show, in which Dave Chappelle plays a visually impaired African-American Klansman, which he viewed as “quite possibly of the edgiest thing they could possibly do.” In that capacity, the sketch opened the main episode and got a positive gathering; Jay Leno called to illuminate Jeselnik “the amount he cherished the malignant growth section.” The Jeselnik Hostile ran for two seasons on Fun times TV from February 19, 2013, to August 27, 2013. Jeselnik’s most memorable stand-up extraordinary, Caligula, debuted in 2013.