Ari Shaffir
| Ari Shaffir | |
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Shaffir performing in July 2016.
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February 12, 1974 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up comedy, television, film, podcast |
| Website | www |
Ari Shaffir (born February 12, 1974) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer and producer. He is the producer and host of his podcast, Skeptic Tank, and the stand up comedy web and television series This Is Not Happening on Comedy Central. He also cohosts the podcast Punch Drunk Sports with Jayson Thibault and Sam Tripoli and is a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Shaffir was born in New York City, and was raised as an Orthodox Jew. His father and grandmother were Holocaust survivors. Soon after his birth, his family moved to North Carolina, followed by Maryland. He attended high school in Rockville, Maryland, followed by time at Yeshiva University in New York City, where he accepted to study abroad in seminary in Israel for around three-and-a-half years. He added: "There was no test, there was nothing to memorize, so I just poured myself into it ... one day I realized I didn't really believe any of that stuff, so I stopped it." In 1999, Shaffir graduated from University of Maryland.
Following his graduation from university, Shaffir moved to Los Angeles to improve his chances of success as a stand up comedian. He took up work answering the phones at The Comedy Store, which led to positions in the cover booth and "the door", until owner Mitzi Shore made him a paid regular, four-and-a-half years later. His early influences in comedy include watching showcase comedy shows on television as a youngster and comedians on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He cites Bill Burr as his favorite living comedian. Shaffir's first and only comedy performance on stage before he moved to Los Angeles took place in his early twenties at an open mic night at a "sports comedy place in Northern Virginia".
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