"Funniest Comedian JIMMY DORE vs JOHN DOWIE"

JIMMY DORE

James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and political commentator. Dore is known for hosting The Jimmy Dor...

James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and political commentator. Dore is known for hosting The Jimmy Dore Show. He identifies politically as a progressive. Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. He was raised in a very blue-collar neighborhood. He has eleven siblings and Dore is the youngest of seven boys. Due to his large family, Dore grew accustomed to playing to an audience early in life. He used comedy to avoid beatings from his older brothers. Dore's father was a policeman and owned a brickwork business. Dore has described his father as a Reagan Democrat. During Dore's senior year in high school, he argued with his father against Ronald Reagan's presidency. He went to Catholic school for twelve years which he felt was very strict. Dore attended Illinois State University but dropped out after three years and worked as a forklift driver. He later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications. Dore started performing stand-up comedy in 1989 in Chicago, before he moved to Los Angeles in 1995. In a May 2016 article by Nathan Rabin on Vulture.com, the episode of Dore's podcast Comedy and Everything Else with Kyle Cease, who ran a controversial $3,000 stand-up comedy boot camp course, was included as part of "an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time." Rabin said Dore was a well-respected veteran and stand-up purist who believed the art of stand-up comedy was rooted in suffering and it could not be taught in a classroom. Joe Berkowitz, in a 2010 review of the podcast on Vulture.com, described Dore's interview with Cease as an "attempt at gotcha journalism that couldn't be any clunkier" and Berkowitz wrote that he could not "see how someone could walk away from this episode wanting to hear more from Jimmy Dore."

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JOHN DOWIE

John Dowie (born 1950 in Birmingham) is a British comedian, musician and writer. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1969. Dowie was among the i...

John Dowie (born 1950 in Birmingham) is a British comedian, musician and writer. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1969. Dowie was among the inaugural acts on Tony Wilson's Factory Records label. In 1978 he contributed three comedic songs to the first Factory music release, A Factory Sample, along with Joy Division, The Durutti Column, and Cabaret Voltaire. However his best remembered song remains the satirical "British Tourist (I Hate the Dutch)" from his debut EP Another Close Shave, issued by Virgin in 1977. In 1981 a seven-inch single followed on Factory Records, the Martin Hannett-produced It's Hard to be an Egg. which Dowie described as a flop. "It's Hard to be an Egg" was also featured in episode 1 of the Wood and Walters show. It is noteworthy as having unusual packaging even by Factory standards: the disc is white vinyl with a "yolk" printed on the label, and is housed in a clear plastic sleeve with a real white feather. Dowie's final Factory contribution was a VHS video entitled simply Dowie, a recording of a live performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Ralph Steadman cover art. In 1987 Dowie issued a live album, Good Grief, recorded at the Zap Club in Brighton, but by 1991 had all but retired from stand-up comedy, celebrating his decision with an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Why I Stopped Being a Stand-Up Comedian. As a director, he worked on Heathcote Williams’ Whale Nation and Falling for a Dolphin, as well as directing shows by, among others, Neil Innes, Arthur Smith, Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden, Simon Munnery and the late Pete McCarthy in The Hangover Show. His children’s show Dogman, directed by Victor Spinetti, was described by the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker as the best show he had seen in Edinburgh that year. Dowie went on to write and perform Jesus – My Boy which was performed in London’s West End by Tom Conti, in Tel Aviv by noted Israeli comedian Gil Kopatz, and in various productions/translations in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2005 Dowie collaborated with Phill Jupitus and Neil Innes on a musical comedy CD for children, and in 2006 recorded a remake of "British Tourist" with the Dutch computer music group the POW Ensemble, for X-OR Records. An archive CD titled An Arc of Hives was issued by LTM Recordings in 2012, with sleevenotes by Stewart Lee and Dave Cohen.

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