Ari Shaffir Net Worth 2024

What is Ari Shaffir’s Net Worth?

Ari Shaffir is a comedian, actor, author, producer and podcaster. Ari Shaffir has a net worth of $600 thousand. Shaffir is finest identified for the Comedy Central sequence “This Is Not Happening,” which he hosted from 2015 to 2016; he additionally created and government produced the present. He first grew to become well-known for starring as The Amazing Racist in a sequence of fashionable YouTube movies, then he reprised the position within the 2013 movie “InAPPropriate Comedy,” which he additionally co-wrote. Ari has appeared within the movies “Reeling in Reality” (2005) and “Keeping Up with the Joneses” (2016) and the TV film “West Side Stories” (2012), and he produced the stand-up comedy specials “Ari Shaffir: Paid Regular” (2015) and “Ari Shaffir: Double Negative” (2016). Shaffir co-hosts the podcast “Punch Drunk Sports” with fellow comedians Sam Tripoli and Jayson Thibault, and hosts the podcast “Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank” as effectively.

Early Life

Ari Shaffir was born Ari David Shaffir on February 12, 1974, in New York City. He grew up in a Jewish family with mom Merryl, father Nat, and 4 siblings. Nat is a Holocaust survivor who emigrated from Romania to Israel after the Holocaust ended, modified his surname from Spitzer to Shaffir, and moved to the U.S. in 1961. When Ari was a child, the family relocated to North Carolina, then they moved to Maryland when he was 9 years outdated. Shaffir attended a Rockville highschool, then he spent two years in Israel learning sacred texts in a yeshiva. He then enrolled at New York City’s Yeshiva University, the place he was a member of the NCAA golf crew. During his sophomore yr, Ari transferred to the University of Maryland, incomes an English Literature diploma in 1999.

Career

Shaffir carried out stand-up comedy on stage simply as soon as earlier than shifting to Los Angeles, at a “sports activities comedy place in Northern Virginia” when he was in his early twenties. He moved to L.A. after his college commencement and took a job at The Comedy Store. He began out answering telephones, then he labored within the cowl sales space, and proprietor Mitzi Shore finally let him work the door so he would have the ability to watch extra of the comedy. Around 4 1/2  years after Ari started working at The Comedy Store, Mitzi made him a paid common. In 2005, he appeared on the fact sequence “Minding the Store,” which adopted Mitzi’s son, actor/comedian Pauly Shore, as he ran the comedy membership whereas attempting to revitalize his profession. In the late 2000s, he started opening for Joe Rogan and toured with Rogan, Duncan Trussell, Joey Diaz, Tom Segura, Eddie Bravo, and Brian Redban; he later grew to become a daily visitor on the podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” In 2010, Ari created “This Is Not Happening,” which began out as a month-to-month reside present, then grew to become an internet sequence in 2013 and a Comedy Central sequence in 2015. In 2017, he stopped internet hosting “This Is Not Happening” on Comedy Central after three seasons, and he was changed by Roy Wood Jr.

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Shaffir’s first stand-up comedy album, “Revenge for the Holocaust,” was launched in 2012, and it topped the comedy album charts on each Amazon and iTunes throughout its first week of launch. The following yr, he launched his first particular, “Passive Aggressive,” on Chill.com, adopted by “Paid Regular” on Comedy Central in 2015, and “Double Negative” on Netflix in 2017. In 2019, he started touring his present “Ari Shaffir: Jew,” which he debuted on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ari has starred in commercials for Coke Zero, Bud Light, Dominos, and Subway, and he has carried out stand-up comedy on a number of tv reveals, similar to “Just for Laughs,” “All Things Comedy Live,” and “Conan.” Shaffir has additionally appeared within the documentaries “Road Dog” (2006), “Transition: A Rose Blooms in Hollywood” (2011), “Adrenaline Junkie” (2013), “Delivery” (2014), “Chronic-Con, Episode 420: A New Dope” (2015), “Adventures in Comedy” (2015), “One Minute Comic: The Rob Sampson Story” (2016), and “Regardless: The Freddy Soto Story” (2020). Since 2011, Ari has deliberate an annual worldwide mushroom competition referred to as Shroomfest, which he has described as “a bunch of individuals which can be all getting collectively on the web and simply doing mushrooms as a unit…It’s simply wherever you’re, purchase some shrooms, determine what sort of celebration you are gonna have.”

Personal Life

In 2012, Ari determined to grow to be bicoastal to reap the benefits of stand-up comedy alternatives in each L.A. and New York City, and three years later, he grew to become a full-time resident of New York. After Kobe Bryant’s demise in January 2020, Shaffir prompted outrage when he posted a video on Twitter during which he said, “Kobe Bryant died 23 years too late at this time. He received away with rape as a result of all of the Hollywood liberals who assault comedy get pleasure from rooting for the Lakers greater than they dislike rape. Big ups to the hero who forgot to fuel up his chopper. I hate the Lakers. What an excellent day.” The New York Comedy Club subsequently canceled a scheduled efficiency by Ari after receiving a number of cellphone threats. A consultant for the comedy membership mentioned that they might not work with him sooner or later, and the video additionally resulted in Shaffir being dropped by his expertise company. He later defined on Instagram, “Every time a beloved superstar dies I put up some horrible shit about them. I’ve been doing it for years now. I like destroying gods. And proper when a well-known particular person dies they’re at their most worshiped. So as a response to all of the outpouring of sympathy on social media, I put up one thing vile. it is only a joke. I do not actually hate any of the folks.”