What is Jo Koy’s net worth?
Jo Koy is an American-Filipino stand-up comedian and podcaster who has a net worth of $15 million. In November 2022, Jo Koy offered out the 14,000-seat T-Mobile area in Las Vegas. He is the primary comedian to promote out the stadium.
Jo Koy’s profession started in Las Vegas throughout the early Nineties, when he carried out at native comedy golf equipment and steadily constructed a following. He gained nationwide recognition in 2005 when he made his first look on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” This led to a number of appearances on “Chelsea Lately,” cementing his standing as a top-tier comedic expertise. Koy’s trustworthy and hilariously relatable storytelling typically facilities round his family, particularly his Filipino mom and rising up in a mixed-race family. Jo Koy’s comedy specials have been profitable each critically and popularly. His first Netflix particular, “Jo Koy: Live from Seattle” in 2017, was successful and was adopted by “Jo Koy: Comin’ In Hot” in 2019, “Jo Koy: In His Elements” in 2020, and “Live from the LA Forum” in 2022. These specials have broadened his worldwide attraction, particularly throughout the Filipino group.
Beyond his comedy specials, Koy can be an acclaimed podcaster, internet hosting “The Koy Pond” with Jo Koy by Starburns Audio. He was honored as Stand-Up Comedian of the Year on the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2018.
Early Life
Jo Koy, often known as Joseph Glenn Herbert, was born in Tacoma, Washington on June 2, 1971. His American father was stationed within the United States Air Force within the Philippines when he married Koy’s Filipino mom, who labored as a supervisor for a Filipino rock band. The couple obtained divorced when Jo was 13 and after that his mom raised all of her kids on her personal. The family moved to Tacoma Washington after which to Los Vegas quickly after he completed highschool in Tacoma. The family moved to Los Vegas to be close to Jo’s ailing grandmother. Jo’s stage title comes from a nickname that his family gave him rising up. Jo credit his mom for his appearing and comedic skills, continuously telling tales about her throughout his comedy reveals. His mom inspired him to take part at school expertise reveals and to carry impromptu reveals for his family and buddies.
Jo started college on the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. However, he selected to go away the college with a purpose to concentrate on a profession in comedy full-time.
Career
He started performing stand-up within the mid-90s in Las Vegas, and began to achieve discover when he grew to become a daily performer within the present, “Catch a Rising Star” on the MGM Grand. This impressed him to maneuver to Los Angeles. After he carried out on the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Jo rented the Huntridge Theater and went door to door to promote tickets to his personal comedy reveals. He was then invited to look on BET’s “Comic View”. From there, he went on to win quite a few comedy awards and to carry out as a part of a number of high-profile excursions and applications. He has appeared on two seasons of “Comic View.” The comedian went on to star in different TV arise specials like “Jamie Foxx Presents: Laffapalooza!”. Jo has received the Showtime on the Apollo and has appeared on numerous VH1’s episodes of the reveals “I Love the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.”
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He was a daily visitor commentator on “Chelsea Lately” showing on over 100 episodes as a season common roundtable visitor. Koy was certainly one of solely a handful of comedians to obtain a standing ovation after acting on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno“. Koy has been a frequent visitor on “The Adam Carolla Show”. He hosts his personal podcast, “The Koy Pond”, on PodcastOne. He additionally appeared on the Tru TV present “World’s Dumbest” and “New Millenium.” Koy acquired a second invite to the Montreal comedy competition “Just for Laughs” the place he acquired the distinguished Canadian Gemini Award. Koy has additionally appeared on Carlos Mencia’s Punisher Tour, performing arise in entrance of followers filling 10,000 seat arenas and stadiums throughout the nation. Jo began a podcast with comedian and TV host Michael Yo on July 23, 2012 known as “The Michael Yo and Jo Koy Show.” The comedian nonetheless excursions across the US and might be heard as a weekly visitor on the podcast “The Adam Carolla Show.”
Koy has performed two extremely rated and profitable comedy specials for Comedy Central: “Don’t Make Him Angry” and “Lights Out.” His third comedy particular “Jo Koy: Life from Seattle” is a Netflix Original, launched worldwide on March 28, 2017. In June 2019, Koy launched one other Netflix particular titled “Joy Koy: Comin’ In Hot.” In February 2019, Koy carried out two reveals on stage on the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen Colorado for the closing evening of the famed Aspen Laugh Festival. On June 12, 2020, Koy together with Netflix launched one other comedy particular known as “Jo Koy: In His Elements.” The particular featured Filipino American comedians DJs and the B-Boys. In 2022, Jo Koy launched the stand-up particular “Live from the LA Forum” and the movie “Easter Sunday.” He’s set to lend his voice to the Netflix animation “The Monkey King” in 2023.
Personal Life
Jo and his now-ex-wife Angie King welcomed a son, Joseph Herbert Jr., in 2003. Koy has acknowledged in interviews that the divorce didn’t have an effect on their skill to co-parent and so they have performed so amicably and remained shut buddies all through the years. Jo has described having a really shut bond along with his son. Since his divorce, Koy has been very personal about his private life. He was rumored to be engaged to Amy Bray in 2018 and extra just lately has been linked to actress and singer Tia Carrere.
In September 2021, Koy and Chelsea Handler made their relationship official on Instagram. In July 2022, the couple broke up.
Jo Koy is widely known for his charity work. He hosted his first philanthropic occasion along with his personal The Jo Koy Foundation on August 4, 2009. It was a charity arise comedy present that includes Koy together with a number of shock comedic visitors known as “Hilarity for Charity.” The present passed off on the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club within the coronary heart of Citywalk, University City, California. All the proceeds from the ticket gross sales had been donated to The Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
In 2022, Koy and movie producer Dan Lin appeared within the Rise for Comedy competition and raised $75,000 for the nonprofit Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA).
Real Estate
In 2013, Jo paid $2.1 million for a sprawling property excessive up within the hills of Studio City, California. The half-acre property options quite a few buildings, a pool and Jo’s podcast recording studio. Between 2013 and 2021, to entry his mansion, Jo would drive down a winding driveway that traversed a modest 1,000 sq. foot 2-bedroom property. In July 2021 he paid $1.4 million for that modest property to broaden his compound even additional.
In July 2023, Jo paid $10 million for an 8,000 sq. foot mansion in Summerlin, Nevada. Located inside a gated golf group, Koy’s mansion has 4 bedrooms, 6 loos and was inbuilt 2011. Around that very same time, he offered his mansion in Ascaya in Henderson for $20.5 million.
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