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What is Jim Norton’s net worth and wage?
Jim Norton is an American comedian, radio character, actor, and creator who has a net worth of $3 million. Jim Norton first grew to become nationally often called the third mic comedian on the now-defunct “Opie & Anthony” radio. Today he co-hosts the “Jim Norton & Sam Roberts” radio present on SiriusXM. He can be a preferred standup comedian, having launched quite a lot of DVDs and specials. Jim has authored two books, the primary of which ranked #7 on the highest ten bestsellers record. His second e book hit #13 on the perfect vendor record.
Jim is thought for adopting numerous characters which then go on to host their very own podcasts. The most notable is a personality known as “Chip Chipperson.” Through Chip, Jim has hosted “The Chip Chipperson Podacast” since 2017 (“podacast” is purposely misspelled).
He additionally co-hosts the podcast “UFC Unfiltered” with former MMA fighter Matt Serra.
Early Life
James Joseph Norton, Jr. was born in Bayonne, New Jersey on July 19, 1968. His father was a US postal companies truck driver and his mom was a librarian. He has a sister named Tracy.
Jim had a reasonably troubled childhood. He began ingesting closely at age 13 and dropped out of highschool in his senior yr. He entered rehab after a failed suicide try. Jim earned his GED after staying sober over the subsequent three years (he has been sober ever since). He then enrolled at Middlesex County College to review regulation with the hope of turning into a lawyer. He dropped out after only a month.
Jim then went to work as a forklift operator.
He began performing standup at an open mic in April 1990. He had dreamed of being a standup comedian since he was 12.
Standup Career
In 1997 Jim appeared on an episode of Louie Anderson’s “The Louie Show”. Andrew “Dice” Clay noticed the looks and was an on the spot fan. At some level quickly thereafter, Jim and Andrew met on the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Andrew invited Jim to go on the street with him as a touring opener. They would go on to work collectively for 3 years.
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Radio Career
It was by means of Dice that Jim was first launched to the “Opie & Anthony” radio present which was extraordinarily well-liked across the nation within the late 90s and early 2000s. Jim hit it off with the hosts, Anthony Cumia and Gregg “Opie” Hughes. By 2000 Jim was a daily visitor on the present. That similar yr Jim and fellow comedian Lewis Black had been arrested in reference to one of many present’s controversial public stunts.
In 2001 he was formally employed on to be the full-time third mic on Opie & Anthony. He retained that place when the present moved to XM in 2004 after being on a two-year hiatus following yet one more controversial public stunt.
Jim stayed with this system even after primary host Anthony Cumia was fired, finally morphing the present into “Opie with Jim Norton”. That iteration in the end fizzled and in 2016 he started co-hosting the Jim & Sam present together with Sam Roberts.
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Other Work
As of this writing Jim has launched 4 standup albums andeight official DVDs/Specials. His 2017 Netflix particular “A Mouthful of Shame” acquired a really constructive response as did his 2019 particular “The Degenerates: Jim Norton.”
He co-starred within the sitcom “Lucky Louie” on HBO, and FX’s “Louie”. He made quite a few appearances as himself on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
From 2016 to 2017 he starred as Father Callahan within the TV sequence “Power”. Jim has made quite a lot of appearances in movies together with 2002’s “Spider-Man”, 2008’s and “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, 2015’s “Trainwreck” and 2016’s “The Comedian”. He additionally appeared in quite a lot of episodes of “Inside Amy Schumer“.
In 2019 he starred as Don Rickles in Martin Scorsese’s movie “The Irishman.” He was personally invited to play the half by his co-star Robert De Niro.
Personal Life
Jim is a lifelong superfan of KISS, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne usually. As an grownup he truly grew to become good pals with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.
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