Jim Norton Biography
Jim Norton is an actor, comedian, author, and television and podcast host from the United States. Since 2016, Norton has co-hosted the podcast UFC Unfiltered with Matt Serra and the SiriusXM morning radio show Jim Norton & Sam Roberts, as well as The Chip Chipperson Podacast.
How old is Jim Norton? – Age
He is 53 years old as of 19 July 2021. He was born in 1968 in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. His real name is James Joseph Norton.
Who is Jim Norton’s dad? – Family -Education
His mother worked as a librarian, while his father was a former US marine and army reservist who eventually became a postal service driver. Norton and his sister Tracy grew up in North Brunswick, New Jersey. He attended North Brunswick High School until his senior year, when he dropped out. He then missed some schoolwork, including his high school graduation, when his worried parents sent him to a one-month recovery center in Princeton, New Jersey, where he continued to sneak alcohol but changed his mind and completed the course at the age of 18.
His class had elected him as class clown while he was absent. Norton received his GED and enrolled in Middlesex County College with the intention of earning a Juris Doctor degree and becoming a lawyer after three years of sobriety, but dropped out after one month. He received a B in English and failed the Problems and Statistics, Science, and Western Civilization classes.
How tall is Jimmy Norton?
Norton stands at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches(1.70 m).
Jim Norton Books
Norton announced in early 2007 that his first book, a collection of life stories containing anecdotes from his boyhood and comedic career, was nearly finished. On July 10, 2007, Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch was released. It debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction and immediately into the Amazon.com Top 10 for books, peaking at No. 7 the day it was released.
I Hate Your Guts, Norton’s second book, was released on November 4, 2008. It debuted at No. 13 on The New York Times Best Seller List in the hardback nonfiction category. In the book, he criticizes people like Al Sharpton, Keith Olbermann, and Steve Martin, including a diatribe that Norton later regretted and apologized to Martin for.
Jim Norton Stand-up
Norton began performing stand-up comedy when he was 12 years old, at an open mic night in Sayreville, New Jersey. He developed a self-deprecating sense of humor that came easy to him and received positive feedback from other comedians. Norton had his debut in 1997, when comic Andrew Dice Clay saw him on The Louie Show and invited him to be his opening act when his original choice had to cancel at the last minute. In 2004, Cringe Humor named Jim Norton the finest comedian and breakthrough talent of the year. Between August 2002 and October 2004, when Opie and Anthony were off the air, Norton was inspired to compose and hone his stand-up act.
In 2003, he put together a fresh 45-minute show and released Yellow Discipline, his first comedy CD. As part of HBO’s One Night Stand series, Norton taped his debut half-hour comedy special. On the television channel Epix and Netflix, Norton has broadcast three hour-long comedy specials. Please Be Offended, his first film, has Ozzy Osbourne sitting on a toilet and Robert De Niro spanking Norton’s bare bottom. On December 31, 2019, he appears in Season 2 Episode 1 of the Netflix standup comedy series “The Degenerates.”
Jim Norton Radio
He was hired as the third mic on WNEW’s Opie and Anthony radio show in New York City in 2000. Norton, comedian Lewis Black, and show producer Rick Del Gado were arrested in November 2000 while doing live broadcasts aboard the Teen Voyeur Bus. Norton, according to Cumia, brought a “dark and perverted” element to the event. Norton and Jesse Ventura had an on-air dispute concerning the September 11 attacks in December 2009.
The Jim Norton Show debuted on SiriusXM’s Raw Dog Comedy channel in May 2010. In an animated web series, Norton voiced Chip Chipperson alongside his other characters, including Uncle Paul Harghis, Jelly, Edgar Mellencamp, and Ted Scheckler. In May 2016, Norton and former fighter Matt Serra co-hosted UFC Unfiltered, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship audio podcast. Obsessed, a weekly one-hour playlist section on Ozzy’s Boneyard, features his favorite songs.
Jim Norton Salary
He earns an annual salary of $400 Thousand.
Jim Norton Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Jim Norton Film
Norton starred in the short film Crooks, a direct-to-video production about postal workers stealing stamps, in 2002. Norton made cameo cameos in several films, including Spider-Man in 2002 and Zack and Miri Make a Porno in 2008. Furry Vengeance, Cop Out, and Special Correspondents are among his other credits. Norton recalls a time around 2003 when his acting career was picking up steam.
Norton was cast in From Nowhere, a critically acclaimed independent film about three Bronx kids, in 2016. Following that, he appeared in Pitching Tents. In the 2008 film Courting Condi, Norton played a key part in advising Devin Ratray on how to win Condoleezza Rice’s heart. Norton played a youthful Don Rickles in the crime drama The Irishman, in which he makes jokes to an audience that included Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Norton was cast without an audition, and De Niro insisted that he perform his own material rather than borrowing gags from Rickles’ 1970s act.