Anthony Jeselnik Net Worth 2024

What Is Anthony Jeselnik’s Net Worth?

Anthony Jeselnik is an American stand-up comedian, author, actor, and producer who has a net worth of $3 million. Known as “The Dark Prince Of Comedy,” Jeselnik has launched the comedy albums “Shakespeare” (2010) and “Caligula” (2013) and the Netflix specials “Thoughts and Prayers” (2015) and “Fire within the Maternity Ward” (2019).

He hosted the Comedy Central sequence “The Jeselnik Offensive” in 2013, and he additionally created, wrote, and govt produced the present. Anthony hosted the NBC competitors sequence “Last Comic Standing” in 2015, and as an actor, he has appeared within the movies “Miss March” (2009) and “Newly Single” (2017) and the TV sequence “Maron” (2013) and “Garfunkel and Oates” (2014).

Anthony produced his stand-up comedy specials and the 2019 sequence “Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik,” and he has written for “Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education” (2008 and 2010), “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (2009–2010), “Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff” (2010), and “Comedy Central Roast of James Franco” (2013). He additionally co-hosts “The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project” podcast together with his buddy Gregg Rosenthal. In 2011, Anthony earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special for “Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education.”

Early Life

Anthony Jeselnik was born on December 22, 1978, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Upper St. Clair with mom Stephanie, father Anthony (an legal professional), three sisters, and a brother. Anthony turned occupied with making individuals chortle at a younger age and would usually crack jokes in school. After a instructor laughed at considered one of his jokes, Jeselnik realized, “If you are sensible sufficient that adults will get it, you may get away with something.”

Anthony attended Upper St. Clair High School, and after graduating in 1997, he enrolled at Tulane University. While attending Tulane, he joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and in 2001, he earned an English literature diploma with a minor in enterprise. Jeselnik moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties, and whereas working at Borders, he got here throughout a ebook by comedian Greg Dean and came upon about Dean’s comedy workshops in Santa Monica.

Anthony’s first joke concerned an impression of his dad being stung by wasps, and when nobody laughed, he determined that bodily comedy wasn’t for him. After shedding his job at Borders, Jeselnik discovered work as an accounting clerk at Deadwood and carried out at open mic nights. Two years after he started performing stand-up comedy, he had a “lightbulb second” when audiences responded positively to a darkish joke. He later included the joke, “My girlfriend likes to eat chocolate,” on his first album, “Shakespeare.”

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Career

Jeselnik made his tv debut on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” in 2006, and he appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “Down and Dirty with Jim Norton” in 2008. In 2009, he bought his personal “Comedy Central Presents” particular and was featured on “Comedy Central’s Hot List.” From 2009 to 2010, Anthony wrote for the primary season of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and sometimes appeared on the present. Around this time, he additionally usually carried out on the Comedy Cellar in New York City. In 2010, he launched his debut comedy album, “Shakespeare,” and started writing for Comedy Central’s roasts, starting with the “Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff.” He later carried out on the “Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump” (2011), “Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen” (2011), and “Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr” (2012). Jeselnik stated of his first roast efficiency, “One of my favourite moments of my life was doing that Trump roast, as a result of nobody knew who I used to be and it simply actually caught everyone unexpectedly. And the subsequent day, my life was utterly completely different.” After the Trump roast, Comedy Central supplied Anthony a deal that included an hour-long particular, three roasts, and a growth deal.

In 2013, Jeselnik launched the comedy album “Caligula,” which reached #1 on the “Billboard” Top Comedy Albums chart and in addition aired as a Comedy Central particular. That 12 months he started internet hosting “The Jeselnik Offensive” on Comedy Central, and it aired 18 episodes over two seasons. On one episode, Anthony had a “shark occasion” after a New Zealander was killed in a shark assault, and he acquired on-line dying threats from individuals in New Zealand. Someone additionally posted his dad and mom’ handle and cellphone quantity on-line, and so they started receiving dying threats as properly. In 2015, Netflix launched the comedy particular “Thoughts and Prayers,” and Jeselnik hosted season 9 of “Last Comic Standing” alongside judges Norm Macdonald, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Roseanne Barr. Anthony appeared within the 2017 documentaries “The History of Comedy” and “Gilbert,” and he served as a decide in a number of episodes of “Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle” from 2016 to 2018. In 2019, his second Netflix particular, “Fire within the Maternity Ward,” was launched, and he hosted “Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik” on Comedy Central.

Personal Life

Anthony dated fellow comedian Amy Schumer from 2009 to 2011.

On the subject of faith, Jeselnik advised “Parade” journal, “I used to be raised Catholic. I rejected it in a while. I’m an outspoken atheist now. People say, ‘Oh, it is a unfavorable factor to be an atheist.’ I do not agree. I feel it is extra optimistic to assume that there isn’t any God, no afterlife. I’m the one one in my family who feels this manner.” Anthony has been a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers since his youth, and in 2016, he advised “Steeler Nation” that his favourite gamers, previous and current, are Jerome Bettis, Hines Ward, and Antonio Brown.