41 Facts About Jimmy Dore

James Patrick Anthony Dore was born on July 26,1965 and is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, podcaster and YouTube personality.

Jimmy Dore is the host of The Jimmy Dore Show, a comedic political talk show on YouTube.

Jimmy Dore started as a comedian in Illinois in 1989 and made several appearances on late-night comedy shows early in his comedy career.

Jimmy Dore was affiliated with The Young Turks from 2009 to 2019 and appeared on a Young Turks Network show titled Aggressive Progressives.

From 2010 to 2021 The Jimmy Dore Show was broadcast on public radio station KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, California.

Jimmy Dore has become known for covering conspiracy theories more positively, including the claim that the Syrian government did not carry out chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians in Khan Shaykhun.

Jimmy Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26,1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent.

Jimmy Dore was raised in the blue-collar neighborhood of South Side.

Jimmy Dore has 11 siblings and is the youngest of seven boys.

Jimmy Dore's father was a policeman who owned a brickwork business.

Jimmy Dore has described his father as being a Reagan Democrat, and in Jimmy Dore's senior year of high school, he argued with his father against Ronald Reagan's presidency.

Jimmy Dore later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.

Jimmy Dore has said he began pursuing his career after watching many late-night talk shows and thinking he could do better than them.

The stand-up comedians that influenced Jimmy Dore include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Hicks.

Jimmy Dore was the lead performer in a Comedy Central Presents half-hour special on April 9,2004.

Jimmy Dore was a writer-performer for the off-Broadway show The Marijuana-Logues, which ran at the Actor's Playhouse in New York City.

Jimmy Dore has performed at the Tropicana Comedy Stop in Las Vegas, the Palms' Playboy Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star in Reno, and Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip.

Jimmy Dore has performed at several comedy festivals, including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the US Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, and has performed for US troops in Afghanistan.

Jimmy Dore's new act incorporated video clips of politicians, journalists, TV personalities and entertainers, and he expressed surprise that no one else was doing it.

In May 2008, Jimmy Dore launched the podcast Comedy and Everything Else.

That year, Jimmy Dore appeared in the documentary film Super High Me.

In June 2009, Dore began producing The Jimmy Dore Show, a weekly one-hour comedic look at the news, which originated at KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and aired nationally on the Pacifica Radio Network, ending in 2021.

Jimmy Dore appeared as a frequent guest host on Current TV's broadcast television version of TYT, The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur, and continued working with Uygur on The Young Turks online.

In June 2012, Dore launched an incarnation of The Jimmy Dore Show on YouTube via the TYT Network show The Point with Ana Kasparian.

Jimmy Dore soon launched his own YouTube channel, broadcasting from his garage, which by 2019 featured near-daily videos and weekly livestreams.

In July 2017, Jimmy Dore began hosting his own show on the TYT network called "Aggressive Progressives".

In January 2021, Jimmy Dore interviewed Zackary Clark, a member of the anti-government, far-right extremist Boogaloo movement.

Jimmy Dore tweeted that he was "completely floored" to have learned during the course of the interview that Panvidya supported Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ rights and opposed racism, police brutality, war and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In May 2017, Jimmy Dore discussed conspiracy theories on the murder of Seth Rich on his show.

In December 2020, an article in New York magazine said Jimmy Dore's discernment was questionable, due in part to his "promotion of conspiracy theories implicating the Democratic National Committee in Seth Rich's death".

In 2017, Jimmy Dore argued that the chemical weapons attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhun was likely to have been a "false flag", orchestrated by groups opposed to Bashar al-Assad.

The investigative journalism site Bellingcat reported that Jimmy Dore received $2,500 from the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees in 2017.

In 2018, according to Stephen Shalom writing in New Politics, Jimmy Dore cited an op-ed which quoted US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis out of context as saying that he did not have evidence that the nerve agent sarin was used in Syria.

Jimmy Dore was critical of Senator Elizabeth Warren for not defending Sanders in the primaries when Sanders was accused of being misogynistic.

In December 2020, Jimmy Dore circulated a plan to make Nancy Pelosi's re-election as Speaker of the House conditional on Medicare for All receiving a floor vote.

Jimmy Dore said Joe Biden and the Democratic Party use identity politics to placate their political base to avoid having to implement progressive policies like raising the minimum wage, forgiving student debt, or establishing single-payer healthcare.

Shalom said Green party candidate Howie Hawkins "made a serious error" when he shared a platform with Jimmy Dore, which led to the International Socialist Organization's New York City chapter rescinding its endorsement of Hawkins in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election.

In 2018, an article published on CNNMoney described Jimmy Dore's show as a "far-left YouTube channel that peddles conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Syrian chemical weapons attacks are hoaxes".

Jimmy Dore defended his show, stating, "We actually debunk conspiracy theories like the one that says Assad gassed his own people".

Jimmy Dore lived with his partner Stefane Zamorano in Pasadena, California, from 1997 until 2020, when the couple purchased a home in Studio City, Los Angeles.

Jimmy Dore said he later gave Kasparian an apology note following the incident.