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Jimmy Dore
Dore at the 2016 edition of Politicon
Born	James Patrick Anthony Dore (1965-07-26) July 26, 1965 (age 59) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia College Chicago
Years active	1989–present
Political party	Democratic (until 2016) Independent (2016–present)
Movement	American Progressivism
Spouse	Stefane Zamorano
Comedy career
Medium	Stand-up comedy Radio Podcast
Genres	Observational comedy Political satire
Subject(s)	American culture Current events Popular culture Politics Religion
YouTube information
Channel	The Jimmy Dore Show
Years active	2011–present
Subscribers	847 thousand (31 December 2020)
Total views	367.5 million (31 December 2020)
Network	The Young Turks (2009–2019) Independent (2019–present)
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers
Website	Official website

James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and political commentator.

Dore is best known for hosting The Jimmy Dore Show. He identifies politically as a progressive.

Early life

Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. He has eleven siblings and Dore is the youngest of seven boys. Dore's father was a policeman and owned a brickwork business. Dore has described his father as a Reagan Democrat.

Dore dropped out of Illinois State University after three years and worked as a forklift driver. He later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications. Dore started performing stand-up comedy in 1989 in Chicago, before he moved to Los Angeles in 1995.

Career

Comedy

Dore has made appearances on late-night television on shows such as ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and NBC's Late Friday. He was the lead performer in a Comedy Central Presents half-hour special on April 9, 2004, and Comedy Central's Citizen Jimmy, a one-hour stand-up special which was chosen "Best of 2008" by iTunes. He was a writer–performer for the off-Broadway show The Marijuana-Logues. He has also performed at Just for Laughs in Montreal, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, and for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He had a role in the 2008 documentary film Super High Me.

Dore hosted the podcast Comedy And Everything Else with his wife Stefane Zamorano and previously with Todd Glass, who departed from the show in late 2009. Comedians who were guests on the podcast included Jim Gaffigan, David Spade, Maria Bamford and Kyle Cease.

He also hosted his monthly show, Left, Right & Ridiculous, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood. Dore's first book, Your Country Is Just Not That Into You, was published in 2014. A comedy special, Sentenced to Live, was released on October 6, 2015.

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

The Jimmy Dore Show

In June 2009, he began producing The Jimmy Dore Show, a weekly one-hour comedic look at the news, which originates at KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, airs nationally on the Pacifica Radio Network. It aired online on TYT Network from 2009 to 2019. Dore appeared as a frequent guest host on Current TV's political commentary show The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. Dore continued working with Uygur on The Young Turks as it became an on-line network. In July 2017, Dore began hosting his own show on the network called "Aggressive Progressives."

A 2017 article in The Boston Globe said YouTube demonetization was not only impacting hate videos, but also controversial content ranging from left-wingers such as Dore to Trump supporters such as Diamond and Silk.

On April 13, 2019, during a livestream, Dore officially announced his departure from The Young Turks Network, citing a desire to focus on his own show and his live performances.

In a July 2020 video, Dore erroneously said Joe Biden had once "hosted a black face affair with a bunch of rich white people" before Dore showed an altered clip circulating on social media since January which had darkened the face of black singer Jerome Powell. One day after the video was uploaded it received over 100,000 views, and has since been removed from YouTube.

In December 2020, Dore began circulating a plan to make Nancy Pelosi's re-election as House Speaker conditional on Medicare for All receiving a floor vote. The plan was endorsed by Justin Jackson of the Los Angeles Chargers and political commentators Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the proposal to use her leverage for scheduling a vote that was unlikely to pass. Dore told his viewers Ocasio-Cortez was "standing between you and health care" and, in response to her argument that progressive breakthroughs require years of organising, Dore said "I figured this out in two weeks, AOC! You liar. You coward. You gaslighter." Journalists David Sirota and Ryan Grim also joined the debate to suggest that progressives should use their leverage for other purposes. Dore and his supporters countered that the formality would help to cement the public record about which elected officials oppose popular reforms.

In January 2021, according to Newsweek, Dore conducted a "largely uncritical" interview with a member of the anti-government, far-right extremist and white supremacist Boogaloo movement in which he took the largely liberal views espoused by the one member at face value without challenge. Dore also suggested that the populist left should work with the Boogaloo Boys to fight against the 'establishment'. The interview aired soon after the storming of the United States Capitol.

In a interview with Glenn Greenwald, Dore and Greenwald downplayed the events of the January 6 storming of the Capitol and the recollection from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of her traumatic experiences during the events. Ocasio-Cortez told her story on an emotional livestream on Instagram Live on February 1, 2021, including her fear that she thought she was going to die and the previously unknown revelation that she is a survivor of sexual assault. Greenwald bemoaned Ocasio-Cortez's refusal to work with Ted Cruz after the January 6 events at the Capitol as a missed “opportunity for Right and Left to join together” while Dore said that Ocasio-Cortez is becoming like Adam Schiff.

Promotion of conspiracy theories

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In 2014, Dore expressed doubt in the official narrative of the 9/11 attacks, saying "I don't know what happened. I know what didn't happen. What didn't happen is what the government said happened."

In May 2017, Dore discussed conspiracy theories over the murder of Seth Rich and questioned statements by law enforcement and Rich's family. Dore cited a retracted Fox News story to substantiate his claims, and continued to insist that there were "a lot of red flags" and there "is probably something more to this story" including after the Fox News retraction. In December 2020, an article in New York magazine said Dore's discernment was questionable due in part to his "promotion of conspiracy theories implicating the DNC in Seth Rich's death".

In 2017, Dore argued that the Syrian government's 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 Dore had received $2,500 from The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees in 2017, described by Bellingcat as a pro-Assad lobby group. Dore also featured Eva Bartlett in "another 2017 conspiracy-theory segment" about Syria, according to Bellingcat.

In 2018, Dore promoted an op-ed which quoted US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis out of context as saying that he did not have evidence the nerve agent sarin was used in Syria. During a press conference in February 2018, Mattis was referring to recent reports when he said he did not have evidence of sarin use, and he also said Assad's government had "been caught using" sarin during the Obama administration and "they used it again during our administration".

Political views

Dore said his stand-up shifted to be more political in 2005 and he described his new style as "'stickin' it to the man' kind of comedy." According to a 2019 article in the Chicago Tribune, Dore's material critiqued "Wall Street, the military industrial complex, Big Pharma, political operatives and mainstream media".

In a July 2008 interview, Dore said part of him wanted Barack Obama as president but "as a comedian, it would be much better if John McCain became president". Dore said "whenever a conservative is in office, it's great for comedy", citing a "boom in comedy" during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

A Los Angeles Times article said The Jimmy Dore Show was a progressive program which had "affection for Sanders and disdain for establishment Democratic politics." Dore supported Bernie Sanders' campaign in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, being called "Sanders-obsessed" by The Washington Post. He was critical of Senator Elizabeth Warren for not defending Sanders in the primaries when Sanders was accused of being misogynistic.

In 2016, Dore said a Hillary Clinton presidency would be worse for progressives than a Donald Trump presidency, saying "don't freak out about a Donald Trump presidency! I think, in fact, my theory is that it's even better for progressives in the short-term, meaning in the two-year term, and in four years for sure." According to Newsweek, Dore has falsely suggested that Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's disease.

A Washington Post article in January 2017 stated that since the presidential election, Dore had "lit into Democrats for blaming hackers for their loss, raised doubts about the credibility of intelligence agencies, and seen the heavy hand of war hawks hyping the Russia connection to destabilize Europe and the Middle East." Dore was a staunch critic of the Special Counsel investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. In September 2017, Dore said "if you don’t think we need a third party, you’re not paying attention."

In June 2020, an article in The New York Times described Dore as an "ardent critic" of Joe Biden.

Reception

In a May 2016 article by Nathan Rabin on Vulture.com, the episode of Dore's podcast Comedy and Everything Else with Kyle Cease, who ran a controversial $3,000 stand-up comedy boot camp course, was included as part of "an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time." Rabin said Dore was a well-respected veteran and stand-up purist who believed the art of stand-up comedy was rooted in suffering and it could not be taught in a classroom. Joe Berkowitz, in a 2010 review of the podcast on Vulture.com, described Dore's interview with Cease as an "attempt at gotcha journalism that couldn't be any clunkier" and Berkowitz wrote that he could not "see how someone could walk away from this episode wanting to hear more from Jimmy Dore."

In 2019, comedian Reginald D. Hunter said The Jimmy Dore Show had "a familiar soothing American impishness" and Dore made "caustically smart observations of the American political left."

Alexander Reid Ross, in an opinion piece for Haaretz, described Dore as a "conspiracy theorist" and "Kremlin defender". Stephen Shalom, writing in New Politics, has called Dore "Islamophobic", "conspiracist" and an "apologist for Assad". Shalom said Green party candidate Howie Hawkins "made a serious error" when he shared a platform with 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 in CNNMoney described Dore's show as "a far-left YouTube channel that peddles conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Syrian chemical weapons attacks are hoaxes". Dore responded by saying of his show that, "We actually debunk conspiracy theories like the one that says Assad gassed his own people".

Personal life

Dore currently lives in Pasadena with his wife, Stefane Zamorano. In a 2008 interview, Dore said he was an atheist.

Discography

• It's Not Brain Surgery (2000)
• Really? (2008)
• Citizen Jimmy (2008)
• It's 2016 (2016)

Notes

1. As of February 2021, Dore was on the advisory council of the Movement for a People's Party.

References

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