about Jim Norton

New Jersey native Jim Norton is a nationally-touring comedian and best-selling author who can be heard weekday mornings on the Opie & Anthony radio show. The show, which is listened to by millions of devoted fans each day, airs on both CBS and XM radio networks.
  
Jim’s book, HAPPY ENDINGS: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch is currently in stores. The New York Times best-seller is a collection of Jim’s personal journal entries, raunchy sex stories, embarrassing star sightings, and pathetic childhood memories.  

His hilarious one-hour HBO Special, “Monster Rain,” premiered on October 13^th & went on sale October 16th. 

 On television, Jim starred in the HBO series Lucky Louie, as well as in Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He has performed on The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, had his own half-hour special on HBO’s One Night Stand, and has been featured on both Last Comic Standing and Last Call with Carson Daly.

 Jim’s first inkling of becoming a comedian came at age 12 when he saw Richard Pryor’s special Richard Pryor: Live in Concert.  He wound up in rehab at 17, dropped out of high school the next year, then started signing up for open-mic nights at local bars when he was 21.  Often pegged as an ‘angry comic’ because of his raunchy brand of humor, Jim argues the only labels in comedy that truly matter are ‘funny,’ ‘original,’ and ‘hack.’   

He has released two CD’s of his stand-up comedy: 2002’s Yellow Discipline and 2003’s Trinkets I Own Made From Gorilla Hands. Jim has gained a diverse audience packing theaters and clubs across the country to experience what Judi Brown of the Aspen Comedy Festival called “brutal honesty” and called Jim, “refreshing in a business where a lot of people are phony.”