Jo Koy Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story What is Jo Koy's net worth? Jo Koy is a Filipino-American stand-up come...
Jo Koy Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
What is Jo Koy's net worth?
Jo Koy is a Filipino-American stand-up comedian whose net worth is $5 million. Jo has had a lot of success with his comedy specials, and he is one of the most famous comedians on the road right now.
Category:
Richest Celebrities › Richest Comedians
Net Worth:
$5 Million
Date of Birth:
Jun 2, 1971 (51 years old)
Place of Birth:
Tacoma
Gender:
Male
Height:
6 ft 3 in (1.93 m)
Profession:
Comedian
Nationality:
United States of America
Early Years
Jo Koy Net Worth Jo Koy, whose real name is Joseph Glenn Herbert, was born on June 2, 1971, in Tacoma, Washington. His American father was stationed in the Philippines with the US Air Force when he married Koy's Filipino mother, who worked as a manager for a Filipino rock band. When Jo was 13, his parents split up, and from then on, his mother raised all of her children by herself. Soon after he finished high school in Tacoma, Washington, his family moved to Los Vegas. The family moved to Los Vegas so that Jo's sick grandma could be close to them. Jo's stage name is a nickname his family gave him when he was a child. Jo gives his acting and comedy skills to his mother, and he often talks about her in his comedy shows. His mother pushed him to take part in talent shows at school and to put on shows for his family and friends on the spot. Jo went to the University of Nevada–Las Vegas for her first year of college. But he decided to drop out of school to focus on his comedy business full-time.
Career
In the mid-1990s, he started doing stand-ups in Las Vegas. When he became a regular in the show "Catch a Rising Star" at the MGM Grand, people started to take notice. He moved to Los Angeles because of this. Jo rented the Huntridge Theatre and went door-to-door to sell tickets to his own comedy shows after he did a show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Then he was asked to go on "Comic View" on BET. From there, he won a number of comedy awards and went on to appear on a number of high-profile tours and shows. He has been on two seasons of "Comic View." The comic went on to have more stand-up specials on TV, like "Jamie Foxx Presents: Laffapalooza!" Jo has won the Showtime at the Apollo and has been on several episodes of the VH1 show "I Love the '70s, '80s, and '90s."
He was a roundtable guest on more than 100 shows of "Chelsea Lately" as a regular guest commentator. Koy was one of only a few comedians whose act on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" got a standing ovation. Koy has been on "The Adam Carolla Show" many times as a guest. He has a show called "The Koy Pond" that is on PodcastOne. He also featured on the Tru TV shows "World's Dumbest" and "New Millenium." Koy was asked to go to the "Just for Laughs" comedy festival in Montreal a second time, where he won the prestigious Canadian Gemini Award. Koy has also been on Carlos Mencia's Punisher Tour, where he did stand-up comedy for crowds of up to 10,000 people in stadiums and halls all over the country. On July 23, 2012, Jo and TV host and comic Michael Yo started a podcast called "The Michael Yo and Jo Koy Show." The comedian still travels around the US and is a weekly guest on the show "The Adam Carolla Show."
Koy has done two hit comedy specials for Comedy Central: "Don't Make Him Angry" and "Lights Out." "Jo Koy: Life from Seattle" is his third comedy special, and it was released worldwide on March 28, 2017, as a Netflix Original. In June 2019, Koy put out another Netflix show called "Joy Koy: Comin' In Hot." In February 2019, Koy did two shows at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, as part of the famous Aspen Laugh Festival's last night. On June 12, 2020, Koy and Netflix put out another comedy show called "Jo Koy: In His Elements." Filipino American comedians DJs and the B-Boys were part of the show. Jo Koy Net Worth
Personal Life
In 2003, Jo and his ex-wife Angie King had a son named Joseph Herbert Jr. Koy has said in interviews that their ability to co-parent hasn't changed because of the split and that they've done so peacefully and stayed close friends over the years. Jo has said that he and his son are very close. Since his split, Koy has kept his personal life very quiet. In 2018, there were rumors that he was engaged to Amy Bray. More recently, he has been tied to singer and actress Tia Carrere.
Most people know about Jo Koy's charity work. On August 4, 2009, he held his first charity event with his own organization, The Jo Koy Foundation. It was called "Hilarity for Charity," and it was a stand-up comedy show with Koy and a number of surprise guests who were also funny. The show took place at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in the middle of Citywalk in University City, California. The Children's Hospital of Orange County got all of the money from the ticket sales.
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