Jimmy Pardo Biography
Jimmy Pardo is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and the host of the comedy podcast Never Not Funny. From the show’s start until mid-2015, he served as Conan’s warm-up comedian and cast member, following which he signed a general development deal with O’Brien’s production business. He most recently hosted the Science Channel’s game show Race to Escape.
How old is Jimmy Pardo? – Age
He is 57 years old as of 28 July 2023. He was born in 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. His real name is James Ronald Pardo, Jr.
Jimmy Pardo Family – Education
Pardo was born in Chicago, Illinois, and spent his first eight years on the south side before migrating to Chicago’s south suburbs. He spent his elementary school years in Hometown, Illinois. In 1980, his family relocated to Oak Forest, Illinois, where he attended Oak Forest High School. In 1986, he relocated to Pasadena, California, to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He studied for a year before returning to Chicago to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.
Jimmy Pardo Wife
Pardo is married to comic writer Danielle Koenig, the daughter of actor Walter Koenig. They have one kid, Oliver.
Jimmy Pardo Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jimmy Pardo Career
In late 1988, Pardo began performing at open mics at different scenes around Chicago, including The Roxy, The Ultimate satisfaction and The Parody Bungalow. The plenty of fruitful satire clubs nearby around then implied Pardo began bringing in cash very quickly, permitting him to stop his normal everyday employment as an agent for MCA Records. Notwithstanding his parody collections Uno, Grandiose Comedian and Sprezzatura, in 2007 Pardo showed up on the satire aggregation Disc Satire Demise Beam.
Pardo facilitated GSN’s Public Parody’s Entertaining Cash from June to October 2003, and later co-facilitated AMC’s Films At Our Home with Rachel Quaintance for five seasons.
Pardo was the warm-up joke artist for The This evening Show with Conan O’Brien in the wake of being proposed by head author Mike Sweeney. He has returned as the initial represent Conan, and showed up in a repetitive live sketch all through the seven day stretch of April 11, 2011. In May 2011 he started leading behind the stage interviews with VIP visitors for a web series called “The Pardo Watch.”
Subsequent to doing live talk and game shows at such elective satire scenes as the Upstanding Residents Unit Theater, Jimmy Pardo started the web recording Never Not Entertaining at the encouraging of now-maker Matt Belknap. The show is in its thirty-first season and places Pardo among the organizers behind podcasting. Pardo has been known as a “trailblazer” of podcasting. Never Not Amusing principally includes individual entertainers in ad libbed discussions. Large numbers of his visitors have proceeded to have their own digital broadcasts, including Doug Benson and Paul Gilmartin.
Pardo has a yearly 12 hour live pledge drive good cause pledge drive for Grin Train, a worldwide youngsters’ foundation to assist kids with a congenital fissure and sense of taste. To date the yearly pledge drive occasion has raised more than $1.2 million, totalling 4,800 medical procedures. In September 2013, Pardo delivered a satire collection entitled Sprezzatura. In 2017, Pardo and Matt Belknap sent off an extra digital broadcast, Messing around with Jimmy Pardo.
In 2019, Pardo, Matt Belknap, and videographer Eliot Hochberg started delivering the web series Jimmy’s Records and Tapes on YouTube. Episodes include Pardo discussing what happened in his life during a specific year while featuring music and random data with respect to said year.