1. Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz was born on September 13,1965 and is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director and producer.
30 Facts About Jeff Ross
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Jeff Ross was raised in Newark, New Jersey, until he was in second grade; then his family moved to Union, New Jersey, and later to Springfield, New Jersey, where he attended Jonathan Dayton High School.
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Jeff Ross is Jewish and has a younger sister named Robyn.
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Jeff Ross's father died of drug-related causes when Ross was 19 years old and attending college.
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Jeff Ross's father owned and ran Clinton Manor Catering, a business that was started by Ross's great-grandmother.
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Jeff Ross attended Boston University as a broadcasting and film major with a minor in political science.
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Jeff Ross graduated from the Boston University College of Communication in 1987.
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Jeff Ross worked as the music director at the university's student-run radio station WTBU in addition to working for the university's public radio station WBUR where he was an audio engineer.
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Jeff Ross began performing stand-up in 1989 after attending a comedy class.
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Jeff Ross became a regular at the Friars Club roasts and was given the title of "Roastmaster General".
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Jeff Ross has been a roaster at all Comedy Central roasts since the 2005 roast of Pamela Anderson.
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Jeff Ross has participated as a roaster on the following Comedy Central Roasts:.
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Jeff Ross has written for, performed in or produced the roasts of the following celebrities:.
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Jeff Ross has taken part in several USO tours and has performed stand-up comedy at US military bases in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq.
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Jeff Ross first traveled to Iraq in 2003 as part of a comedy tour hosted by Drew Carey.
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In 2005 Ross released the film Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie, which he both produced and directed and which documented his experiences on the Iraq tour.
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Jeff Ross published his first book, I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges, in 2009.
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Ross was the creator and host of the comedy panel show The Burn with Jeff Ross, which aired on Comedy Central for two seasons from 2012 to 2013.
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Jeff Ross appeared as a battler in final episode of the show's third season in a battle with NBA player Blake Griffin.
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One of Jeff Ross's first acting roles was a small part in the 1996 comedy film Celtic Pride.
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Jeff Ross's television acting work includes roles on HBO's Six Feet Under and Crashing, and Showtime's Weeds.
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Jeff Ross appeared in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats about the famous dirty joke of the same name.
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Jeff Ross was the guest on the debut episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in 2009 and appeared on the podcast's 800th episode in 2017.
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Jeff Ross appeared in the third tournament of Celebrity Poker in 2004, but lost in his first match.
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Jeff Ross was a competitor on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars that aired in 2008.
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Against medical advice, Jeff Ross continued the competition, but the couple were the first to be eliminated.
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In 2011 Jeff Ross visited the protesters of the Occupy movement in Los Angeles to support their cause.
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Jeff Ross took to the microphone at a stage set-up at Los Angeles City Hall.
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Jeff Ross's talk included roasting Wall Street and the big banks.
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In November 2020, Jeff Ross filed a defamation suit in the New York State Supreme Court, in which multiple named witnesses refuted her allegations; Radtke was accused of extorting Jeff Ross for "significant sums of money".