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| Born | Jonathan David Dore November 2, 1975 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
Jonathan David Dore (born November 2, 1975) is a Canadian comedian and actor currently based in Juneau, Alaska. [1]
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Jon Dore | |
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| Dore in 2013. | |
| Born | Jonathan David Dore November 2, 1975 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
Jonathan David Dore (born November 2, 1975) is a Canadian comedian and actor currently based in Juneau, Alaska. [1]
Dore attended Brookfield High School and studied broadcasting at Algonquin College in Ottawa. [2]
Jon Dore was formerly a correspondent for CTV's Canadian Idol . Dore also appeared on his own Comedy Now! special for CTV and The Comedy Network, and was featured on the A Channel's comedy special Toronto Laughs. His show, The Jon Dore Television Show , can be seen on The Comedy Network in Canada, and on the Independent Film Channel in the United States. In July 2008, Dore appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up show, Live at Gotham along with several other comedians. In 2010, he appeared on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother .
In March 2011, he hosted Funny as Hell on HBO Canada , [3] a show featuring alternative or musical comedy acts. Season 3 of Funny as Hell premiered on March 22, 2013. [4]
On November 11, 2010, he was the first featured comedian on Conan .
In 2013, Dore appeared as a main cast member alongside Sarah Chalke and Brad Garrett on the short-lived sitcom How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) and was interviewed by Melinda Hill for the web series All Growz Up with Melinda Hill. [5]
Dore went on tour with Tig Notaro in the Summer of 2013 across the country to film a stand-up documentary for Showtime. [6]
In 2014, he appeared in an uncredited cameo on Alan Thicke's TLC show Unusually Thicke as a drunken stranger who crashes 16-year-old Carter Thicke's party. That same year he appeared in two episodes of Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer . [7]
In 2021, Dore created the single-camera sitcom Humour Resources for CBC, playing a fictional version of himself as an HR manager with unscripted interviews with Canadian and American comedians. [8]
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
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| 2006 | Canadian Comedy Award | Best Stand-up Newcomer [9] | Won |
| 2008 | Canadian Comedy Award | Best Series Writing, The Jon Dore TV Show [10] | Won |
| 2009 | Canadian Comedy Award | Best Performance (male), The Jon Dore TV Show [11] | Won |
| 2023 | Juno Awards | Comedy Album of the Year — A Person Who Is Gingerbread [12] | Won |
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