Website www.arishaffir.com | Parents Nat Shaffir | |
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Mediums Stand-up comedy, Television, Film, Podcast Movies and TV shows Inappropriate Comedy, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Pauly Shore's Natural B, This Is Not Happening, Down and Dirty with Jim Norton Similar Bert Kreischer, Joey Diaz, Duncan Trussell, Tom Segura, Joe Rogan Profiles | ||
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Ari Shaffir (born February 12, 1974) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer and producer. He is the producer and host of his podcast, Skeptic Tank, and the stand up comedy web and television series This Is Not Happening on Comedy Central. He also cohosts the podcast Punch Drunk Sports with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tripoli and is a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
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Early life and education
Shaffir was born in New York City, and was raised as an Orthodox Jew. His father and grandmother were Holocaust survivors. Soon after his birth, his family moved to North Carolina, followed by Maryland. He attended high school in Rockville, Maryland, followed by time at Yeshiva University in New York City, where he accepted to study abroad in seminary in Israel for around three-and-a-half years. He added: "There was no test, there was nothing to memorize, so I just poured myself into it ... one day I realized I didn't really believe any of that stuff, so I stopped it." In 1999, Shaffir graduated from University of Maryland.
Career
Following his graduation from university, Shaffir moved to Los Angeles to improve his chances of success as a stand up comedian. He took up work answering the phones at The Comedy Store, which led to positions in the cover booth and "the door", until owner Mitzi Shore made him a paid regular, four-and-a-half years later. His early influences in comedy include watching showcase comedy shows on television as a youngster and comedians on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He cites Bill Burr as his favorite living comedian. Shaffir's first and only comedy performance on stage before he moved to Los Angeles took place in his early twenties at an open mic night at a "sports comedy place in Northern Virginia".
Shaffir first became known for his viral video series The Amazing Racist that fans uploaded onto YouTube that he originally shot for a DVD produced by National Lampoon, but was commercially unsuccessful. In 2013, Shaffir created and produced This Is Not Happening, a stand up comedy web series featuring numerous comedians telling true life stories. The show was initially rejected for television broadcast as Shaffir was too unknown, but it was later picked up by Comedy Central which premiered in January 2015. Later that year, Shaffir performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2009, Shaffir acquired a license to use marijuana in California.
In 2011, Shaffir began his podcast, Skeptic Tank. In 2013, Shaffir began to cohost the sports podcast Punch Drunk Sports with fellow comedians Sam Tripoli and Jayson Thibault.
Shaffir appeared in the comedy feature film Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016).
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