Ari Shaffir Personal Life, Wife, Career, Net Worth, Metrics

Ari Shaffir is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, producer, and social media personality. Many people recognized him for being the producer and host of his own podcast ‘Skeptic Tank’, since 2011. However, he rose to fame for his viral video series ‘The Amazing Racist’.

Additionally, he collaborated with Joe Rogan , Duncan Trussell, Eddie Bravo, and Joey Diaz as the opening act for Rogan’s podcast in the late 2000s. He also released his first stand-up album ‘Revenge for the Holocaust’ in 2012. Also, he is not a controversial person but responded with backlash over the death of Kobe Bryant Tweets .

ARI SHAFFIR: BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, EDUCATION

The multi-talented personality was born on February 12, 1974 in New York, New York, United States. He was born as the second child of parents Nat and Merryl Shaffir. After he was born, his parents moved to North Carolina from New York and then Maryland. He grew up with his three siblings in a conservative Jewish tradition. Additionally, his father and grandmother were Holocaust survivors.

Regarding his education, he attended high school in Rockville, Maryland. Before attending Yeshiva University in New York, he studied scriptures at a yeshiva for two years in Israel. In his second year, he transferred to the University of Maryland. From there, he earned a degree in English Literature in 1999. While at Yeshiva University, he played on the university’s NCAA golf team.

ARI SHAFFIR: PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles in order to have the opportunity to succeed as an actor. He then started as a stand-up comedian in his twenties at an open-mic night at a sports comedy venue in Northern Virginia. The four and a half years after, he became a regularly paid artist. He started performing at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in 2012 as well as clubs in New York. After that he appeared on ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ‘, and he was inspired by comedian Bill Burr .

In 2011, he started his podcasting career with his own show ‘ Skeptic Tank’ which has a YouTube channel under his name. The channel has 35,800 subscribers and over 1.15 million views. Subsequently, in 2013, he began co-hosting another podcast ‘Punch Drunk Sorts’ with Sam Tripoli and Jayson Thibault. However, he rose to prominence through his viral series ‘The Amazing Racist’.

After a brilliant career as a comedian, he tried his hand at acting. Hence, he appeared in the Greg Mottola directed action comedy film ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’. Also worked on a few screen projects like 2004 ‘The Fax’ and 2005 ‘Reeling in Reality’, 2012 series ‘Minding the Store’.

ARI SHAFFIR: PERSONAL LIFE AND WIFE

Coming to his personal life, he kept his personal life private. He was once rumored to be gay after his Tweet on Dec. 4, 2014. He said he wanted his clearly gay friends in denial to talk on his closet podcast, but they have to admit they’re gay. As a result, many of his audiences speculated that he was also gay. But he neither refuted nor confirmed this fact.

In 2015, he revealed he was in a relationship with college friend Alison Reese. The ex-couple had been in a relationship for seven years before going their separate ways. As of now, it seems he’d rather focus on his career than having a romantic time. Additionally, Shaffir is not a controversial figure, however, he made some haters when he tweeted about the reaction to NBA legend Kobe Bryant’s death. He mentioned in his Tweets that Kobe died 23 years late after being accused of sexual assault a few years ago.

ARI SHAFFIR: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

He has earned good fortune from his successful career as a comedian and podcaster. The median salary for an actor and comedian ranges from the low of $21,500 to the high of $55,800. Looking at Ari’s popularity and his works, he needs to amass a profitable amount to live a splendid life. Hence, he has an estimated net worth of over $600,000 from his career.

He has an @arishaffir Instagram account with 424,000 followers. On Twitter, he has a @SkepticTankPod account with over 2.7k followers. But he doesn’t have a Facebook account.

Happy Father’s Day to the only man I know who has paid for an abortion and been paid for another abortion. Real dads do it on their own terms.

A post shared by Ari Shaffir (POTLOS) (@arishaffir) on Jun 21, 2020 at 10:42am PDT

ARI SHAFFIR: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The stand-up comedian has a slim and fit body that stands 6 feet 2 inches or 1.90 meters tall. His body measures 42 inches in chest and 32 inches in waist with 16 inches in biceps. He has dark brown hair with a thin beard and mustache and hazel green eyes.