Jerry Minor Biography
Jerry Minor is an American actor, comedian, and writer well-known for his humorous roles in a number of television shows, including The Hotwives of Orlando, Carpoolers, Community, Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Trigger Happy TV, Delocated, Brickleberry, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Crossballs.
How old is Jerry Minor? – Age
He is 54 years old as of October 4 2023. He was born in 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. His real name is Jerome Charles Minor Jr.
Jerry Minor Family
Minor was raised in Flint, Michigan, after being born in Memphis, Tennessee. For the majority of his early years, Minor was reared as a Jehovah’s Witness. Later in life, Minor was rejected by certain family members for renouncing his upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Jerry Minor Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jerry Minor Saturday Night Live
For one season in 2000–2001, Saturday Night Live employed Minor as a writer and cast member. Before the 2001–2002 season began, he was fired from the show during the summer break because Lorne Michaels wanted to add four new cast members but did not want to go over budget. The most well-known roles Minor played at SNL were in the recurring comedy Rap Street, in which he co-starred with Horatio Sanz, and in the role of Al Sharpton on Weekend Update.
Mr. Show
Apart from Saturday Night Live, Minor has made frequent appearances on several other sketch comedy shows, such as HBO’s Mr. Show, where he was a cast member in the show’s last season.
Jerry Minor Career
He began doing stand-up comedy and writing/performing with sketch comedy groups in Detroit before eventually joining the Second City Detroit’s mainstage improv troupe. After writing and performing in three revues, he joined the Second City Chicago for two shows and then one revue at the Second City Toronto. At the time he was the only performer to have belonged to all three of the Second City’s touring companies.
He was briefly a correspondent on The Daily Show in early 2000, had a recurring role as Officer Carter on Arrested Development and was one of the main cast members of Comedy Central’s debate show parody Crossballs in 2004. He worked briefly as a writer and occasional performer on the short-lived FOX sketch series Cedric the Entertainer Presents.
In 2006, Minor was part of the main cast of the HBO series Lucky Louie, on which he played Louis C.K.’s neighbor, Walter. Minor was praised for his Lucky Louie role in a 2006 issue of TV Guide, where he was given a “Cheers” in the magazine’s Cheers and Jeers section. He was part of the cast of the 2008 ABC sitcom Carpoolers, playing the role of Aubrey and was a featured comedian on Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil on Comedy Central. Minor has also gained attention online in 2010, for his memorable appearances as “Cyber Thug” on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, which was briefly spun off into its own podcast titled Cyber Thug Radio on the Earwolf network.
For a number of years Minor and comedian Craig Robinson had a comedy act where they performed as musical duo “L. Witherspoon & Chucky”, with Minor as smooth singing “L. Witherspoon” and Robinson as “Chucky”, the keyboard player and back-up singer. They performed the act on several stand-up shows on Comedy Central as well as on Real Time with Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Minor has appeared in films such as I Love You, Man, Drillbit Taylor and Beer League, and had a small part in the 2003 movie Melvin Goes to Dinner directed by Bob Odenkirk.
Minor has made guest appearances on shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Funny or Die Presents, Drunk History, The League, Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time, Key & Peele, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Last Man Standing, How I Met Your Mother, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. In 2010, he co-starred as “Mighty Joe Jon the Black Blonde” in the second season of the Adult Swim series Delocated. Minor has also had recurring appearances on comedy programs such as The Office as Brandon, Eastbound & Down as Jamie Laing, Community as Jerry the Janitor, The Hotwives as Rodney, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Chris, and in the animated series Bob’s Burgers as the voice of Officer Julia. He also co-starred as the voice of Denzel in the Comedy Central animated series Brickleberry.
Minor is now the co-host of The Cult Awareness Podcast that discusses Scientology and other subjects. He stars as the lead in the satirical musical For the Love of a Glove, which portrays Michael Jackson’s glove as a sentient being and the true cause of his many misfortunes