Ali Siddiq Net Worth 2024

What Is Ali Siddiq’s Net Worth?

Ali Siddiq is an American stand-up comedian, author, producer, radio persona, and public speaker who has a net worth of $1 million. Ali Siddiq gained Comedy Central’s Up Next competitors in 2013, and he was a finalist on NBC’s “Bring the Funny” in 2019. Ali has launched the stand-up comedy albums “Talking Loud Saying Something” (2010), “Freedom of Speech” (2013), “Enjoy Your Life” (2013), “Damaged Goods” (2016), and “The Prison Manual” (2019) and the specials “It’s Bigger Than These Bars” (2018), “The Domino Effect” (2022), “Unprotected Sets” (2022), “The Domino Effect 2: Loss” (2023), and “Don’t Judge A Book by Its Cover” (2023), and he has produced a number of of his specials. Siddiq has appeared on tv reveals equivalent to “Def Comedy Jam” (2008), “This Is Not Happening” (2015–2016), “Gotham Comedy Live” (2015), “The Half Hour” (2016), “@midnight” (2016), “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper” (2018), “Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring” (2019), “This Week on the Comedy Cellar” (2019), “The D.L. Hughley Show” (2019), and “Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks” (2020) in addition to a number of episodes of “BET’s Comicview.” In 2021, he started co-hosting the R&B program “Uncle Funky Larry Jones & Ali Siddiq” on the Houston radio station KMJQ (Majic 102.1 FM). In 2013, Comedy Central named Ali the “#1 Comic to Watch.”

Early Life

Ali Siddiq was born on October 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas. He attended Jane Long Middle School and Paul Revere Middle School, and after his dad and mom cut up up, Ali and his siblings had been raised by their single mom and lived within the initiatives for a time. The Siddiq kids later lived with different family members. When Ali was 10 years outdated, he was practically run over, and his mom and aunt received right into a struggle with the automobile’s driver as a result of she would not apologize. Siddiq began promoting medication on the age of 14, and when he was 19, he was arrested for cocaine trafficking. After being convicted of “supply of a managed substance,” he was sentenced to fifteen years in jail however was launched after six years. During an interview with “Comedy Scene in Houston,” Ali said, “In jail, I labored as an SSI—principally a janitor, within the part the place individuals are locked up all day—by no means get out apart from ONE hour—if that. I might watch ‘Martin’—and I might carry out EVERY character in ‘Martin’ for the folks in there. And after ‘Martin’ ended, I began doin’ arise, and began talkin’ about all of the issues that had been goin’ on in jail. If you possibly can carry out for individuals who have NOTHING to chuckle about—and you can also make ’em chuckle, performin’ out here is a cake stroll.” After his launch from jail in October 1997, Siddiq took jobs at a sun shades store and a division retailer.

Career

Ali made his stand-up comedy debut at Houston’s Just Joking Comedy Club throughout Apollo Night in late 1997, and he quickly started co-hosting Apollo Night. He toured with Lavell Crawford, and he began showing on “BET’s Comicview” in 2000. In 2008, Siddiq carried out on “Def Comedy Jam,” adopted by “ComicView: One Mic Stand” in 2009. He launched the comedy album “Talking Loud Saying Something” in 2010, and in 2013, he launched two extra, “Freedom of Speech” and “Enjoy Your Life.” After internet hosting six reveals on the Improv for DL Hughley, he went on tour with Hughley, and in 2013, he hosted the Showtime particular “Bill Bellamy’s Ladies Night Out Comedy Tour” and served as Bellamy’s opening act. That yr Ali gained Comedy Central’s Up Next, a stand-up comedy competitors that had greater than 300 entrants. He was the opening act on the televised particular “Centric Comedy All-Stars 2014,” and in 2015, he carried out on Comedy Central’s “This Is Not Happening,” and a video clip of his look went viral. Siddiq received his personal episode of Comedy Central’s “The Half Hour” in 2016, and that yr he additionally appeared on “Gotham Comedy Live,” “Unsung Hollywood,” and “@midnight.” His 2018 Comedy Central particular “It’s Bigger Than These Bars” was filmed at Texas’ Bell County Jail.

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Ali appeared on “Desus & Mero” (2018), “The Opposition with Jordan Klepper” (2018), “Inside Joke at Moontower” (2018), “Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring” (2019), “This Week on the Comedy Cellar” (2019), “Above Average Presents” (2019), “The D.L. Hughley Show” (2019), and “Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks” (2020), and in 2019, he made it to the highest 5 on NBC’s “Bring the Funny.” Siddiq performed himself within the movies “The Workout Room” (2019) and “This Christmas Chance” (2023). In 2022, he starred within the hour-long comedy specials “The Domino Effect” (YouTube) and “Unprotected Sets” (EPIX), and as of this writing, “The Domino Effect” has been considered greater than 11 million instances. Ali guest-starred on “Pause with Sam Jay” and “Flatbush Misdemeanors” in 2022, and in 2023, he carried out on “DL Hughley’s Speakeasy,” was featured within the “The Rise of Life-Without-Parole Sentences” episode of the Vice News / Marshall Project docuseries “Inside Story,” and launched the comedy specials “The Domino Effect 2: Loss” and “Don’t Judge A Book by Its Cover.” Siddiq has additionally appeared on podcasts equivalent to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank,” and “Uncle Joey’s Joint with Joey Diaz.”

Personal Life

In 2009, Ali started internet hosting the annual Jive Turkeys Comedy Show, which raises funds for the Houston Food Bank. In 2017, Siddiq organized a profit for Houston residents that had been affected by Hurricane Harvey. The following yr, he carried out at a profit for Saba Homes, a charitable group devoted to serving to orphaned kids. Ali has additionally performed volunteer work for the Harris County Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program.