Ari Shaffir Biography
Ari Shaffir is a stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer from the United States. He is the creator and host of the Skeptic Tank podcast. He also co-hosts the podcast Punch Drunk Sports with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tripoli, and he appears on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with Shane Gillis and Mark Normand on the “Protect Our Parks” episodes.
How old is Ari Shaffir? – Age
He is 49 years old as of 12 February 2023. He was born in 1974 in New York, New York, United States. His real name is Ari David Shaffir.
Ari Shaffir Family – Education
Shaffir was born in New York City to a Romanian-Jewish family. His father was a survivor of the Holocaust. Ari’s family practiced Conservative Jewish customs until he was nine years old, when the family relocated to Maryland. His parents converted to Orthodox Judaism there. He began working at Arlington National Cemetery when he was 16 years old.
Shaffir graduated from Rockville High School in Maryland. He then spent two years at Yeshiva in Jerusalem before moving to the University of Maryland, where he earned a degree in English literature in 1999. Shaffir was the University’s NCAA golf team’s lowest-ranked athlete in 1995, according to Shaffir.
Ari Shaffir Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $600,000.
Ari Shaffir Stand-Up
Shaffir launched his debut stand-up album, Revenge for the Holocaust, in 2012, and it quickly became the number one comedy album on iTunes and Amazon. He created his debut television show, Passive Aggressive, for Chill.com in 2013. In 2015, his second special, Paid Regular, debuted on Comedy Central the same week that This Is Not Happening did. In 2017, he debuted Double Negative on Netflix, which consisted of two 45-minute episodes (based on the notion of a double album), the first titled Children and the second titled Adulthood.
In 2019, he began traveling with the show Ari Shaffir: Jew, which is now available on YouTube. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he debuted Double Negative and Ari Shaffir: Jew. Shaffir adds that as of 2017, he has no desire to pursue acting, which would take him away from his stand-up.
Ari Shaffir Career
Shaffir’s solitary satire execution in front of an audience before he moved to Los Angeles occurred in his mid twenties at an open mic night at a “sports parody place in Northern Virginia”. Following his graduation from college, Shaffir moved to Los Angeles to work on his odds of coming out on top as a professional comic. He took up work picking up the telephones at The Parody Store, which prompted positions in the cover stall and “the entryway”, until proprietor Mitzi Shore made him a paid ordinary, four-and-a-half years after the fact.
His initial impacts in parody incorporate watching grandstand satire shows on TV and humorists on The This evening Show with Johnny Carson. He refers to Bill Burr as his #1 living jokester. He became bicoastal, living in both Los Angeles and New York City in 2012, and turned into a full-time New York occupant in 2015.
Shaffir previously became known to a more extensive crowd with the viral video series The Astounding Bigot. He turned into an initial represent Joe Rogan in the last part of the 2000s and started visiting with Rogan and individual comics Joey Diaz, Duncan Trussell, Tom Segura, Brian Redban, and Eddie Bravo. In 2009 he showed up at the Montreal Parody Celebration as a feature of The Frightful Show.
The next year he made, created, and facilitated the month-to-month live show This Isn’t Going on, with Eric Abrams, a stand-up satire highlighting various entertainers recounting genuine biographies around a subject. The show would turn into an ordinary element at parody celebrations and appeared as a web series in 2013 and debuted in January 2015 on Fun Times TV. He left the show as maker and host in 2017 in the wake of selling his third exceptional, Twofold Negative, to Netflix as opposed to Good Times TV. Roy Wood Jr. supplanted him as host.
In 2010 Shaffir showed up on the third episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, his first of 59 appearances on the show. In 2011, Shaffir started his digital recording project, Cynic Tank. On most episodes, Shaffir picks a subject his visitors (for the most part entertainers) can examine as specialists. While subjects are in many cases comic he’s likewise examined difficult issues like psychological well-being, self-destruction, assault, and jail.
Each 50 episodes the parody group Danish and O’Neill show up as visitors. In 2013, Shaffir started to cohost the games webcast Dazed Sports with individual entertainers Sam Tripoli and Jayson Thibault. His appearances turned out to be less successive subsequent to moving toward the East Coast full-time.