Jim Norton
Also Known As: Jimmy Norton, James Norton , Jimmy Robinson
Biography: James Joseph "Jim" Norton, Jr. (b July 19, 1968) is an American comedian, radio personality, author, and actor. He is an on-air personality, often dubbed the 'third mic' on The Opie & Anthony Show, which airs on Sirius XM Radio. Norton has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and on the Late Show with David Letterman, filmed an HBO stand-up special for the series One Night Stand as well as his special "Monster Rain", co-starred in the short-lived HBO sitcom Lucky Louie and had cameos in the films Spider-Man, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Courting Condi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne - New Jersey - USA
Birthday: July 19, 1968
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Gender: Male
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Among the Beasts
Overview: When a gangster’s daughter reluctantly teams with a former Marine to find her kidnapped cousin, the combat veteran must overcome his own demons in order to rescue the child.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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Jim Norton: Monster Rain
Overview: Jim Norton is back on HBO and holds nothing back in this 60-minute concert performed in front of a live audience at The Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Norton, known for his straight up comedy that sometimes crosses lines no other comedians dare to cross, gives his hilarious perspectives on contemporary issues, dating, celebrities, prostitutes and much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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The Roast of Bert Kreischer
Overview: Whitney Cummings roasts legendary comedian Bert "The Machine" Kreischer with the help of Jim Norton, Big Jay Oakerson, Tony Hinchcliffe, Rachel Feinstein, Donnell Rawlings, Trevor Wallace, and some surprise celebrity guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-01
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Comedian
Overview: A look at the work of two stand-up comics, Jerry Seinfeld and a lesser-known newcomer, detailing the effort and frustration behind putting together a successful act and career while living a life on the road.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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Lucky Louie: The Making of a Sitcom
Overview: A documentary about the making of Louis C.K.'s sitcom Lucky Louie.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-11
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The Roast of Whitney Cummings
Overview: Saddle up for a wild night of comedy as host Hannah Stocking, roasters Bob the Drag Queen, Jim Norton, Donnell Rawlings, Annie Lederman, Luis J. Gomez, Robin Tran, Dan Levy, and special guest Amanda Knox pay tribute to the great Whitney Cummings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-14
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The Reunion
Overview: THE REUNION follows out of work actor Ricky Reilly through a nightmarish dream-like journey as he descends into the depths of New York City to confront a bully from his past at their High School Reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Crooks
Overview: During a late night drinking binge with bartender Nicky (Michael Marino), sixty-five year-old postman Sol Solzberg (Charlie Callas) leaks the details of his life-long plan to rob some valuable stamps from the local post office. Sol then promptly drops dead of a heart attack. Suddenly armed with his sure-fire answer to his financial woes, Nicky assembles a "crack" team of hapless crooks, headed by his best friend Paul (Jim Norton), and begins to plan and execute the caper. Whoever said crime doesn't pay had this gang of moronic Jersey boys in mind!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Jim Norton: Please Be Offended
Overview: Caustic comedian and best-selling author Jim Norton pulls no punches in his first EPIX comedy special, going after jaw-dropping laughs not intended for the faint of heart. Among his targets: the national hypersensitivity epidemic - leading celebrities, talking heads and regular Joes alike to get offended by just about anything. Norton's got a message for those people, and it's in the title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-30
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Overview: Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Furry Vengeance
Overview: When real estate developer Dan Sanders finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much mischief from the furry critters can the businessman take before he calls it quits?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-30
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Mike Cannon: Life Begins
Overview: Shot in New York City at the world famous Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-24
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Jim Norton: American Degenerate
Overview: In the follow-up to his first EPIX comedy special Please Be Offended, caustic comedian Jim Norton continues to push every hot button he can find... all in the name of a good laugh, of course. With his trademark self-deprecating brand of humor, Norton outrageously covers a wide range of topics that somehow all lead back to sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-23
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From Nowhere
Overview: Three undocumented teenagers, a Dominican girl, an African boy and a Peruvian girl, are about to graduate high school in the Bronx, while working with a teacher and a lawyer to try to get their papers to stay in the USA. Forced to grow up prematurely and navigate problems most adults don't even have to face, they're really just American teenagers who want to be with their friends, fall in love, and push back against authority.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Run Ronnie Run
Overview: A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-20
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Women Aren't Funny
Overview: Comedian Bonnie McFarlane dons her investigative journalist's hat to find out once and for all if women are funny and report her unbiased findings in what some are calling the most important documentary of our generation.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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Misery Loves Comedy
Overview: Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Top Five
Overview: Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
Overview: The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-17
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Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate
Overview: Comedian Jim Norton tackles the twisted state of the 21st century, including how modern technology affects everything from free speech to hooking up.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-24
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Jim Norton - One Night Stand
Overview: Stand up special
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Spider-Man
Overview: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Special Correspondents
Overview: A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-22
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Cop Out
Overview: Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites—especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his daughter's wedding, Jimmy decides to sell a rare baseball card that's worth tens of thousands. Unfortunately, when the collector's shop is robbed and the card vanishes with the crook, Paul and Jimmy end up going rogue, tracking down the card and the drug ring behind its theft, all on their own time and without any backup—except for each other.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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Comedy Anatomy Presents: The Jim Norton Roast
Overview: Shot in 2004, the Roast of Jim Norton was held at the world-famous Caroline's Comedy Club in New York, NY. It features some of the greatest comics of the New York scene, and is part of comedy history. Produced by Comedy Anatomy's own Masavia Greer, along with Yumi Akiyama, the Roast of Jim Norton was hosted by Rich Vos, and featured comedians Jim Florentine, Vanessa Hollingshead, Nick DiPaolo, Greg Giraldo, Laurie Kilmartin, Colin Quinn, Rev. Bob Levy, Ross Bennett, Ben Bailey, Opie & Anthony, the late Patrice O’Neal and Greg Giraldo (rest in peace), and of course, guest of honor Jim Norton.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-21
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The Patrice O'Neal Roast
Overview: Shot in 2003, the Patrice O’Neal Roast was produced by Comedy Anatomy's own Masavia Greer, along with Yumi Akiyama. It features some of the greatest comics of the New York scene, and is part of comedy history. Held at NYC's Boston Comedy Club, the Patrice O'Neal Roast was hosted by Rich Vos and featured Robert Kelly, DC Benny, Vanessa Hollingshead, Colin Quinn, Todd Barry, Jim Norton, Bill Burr, Lynne Koplitz, Ben Bailey, Keith Robinson, and most importantly, Greg Giraldo AND the great Patrice O’Neal. Rest in peace, you are both missed. Many believe Patrice was one of the greatest comics to ever hit the stage, and that he died before getting the recognition he truly deserved. This roast is a look into his life, and the comics who loved him. BE ADVISED THAT THIS WAS PERFORMED 18 YEARS AGO (in 2003, before the digital release), SO PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE PARLANCE OF THE TIMES. Quality of available recordings, at this time, is known to only be as high as 480p.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-19
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Can We Take a Joke?
Overview: In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have always found something to be offended by, their ability to organize a groundswell of opposition to – and public censure of – their offender has never been more powerful. Today we're all one clumsy joke away from public ruin. Can We Take A Joke? offers a thought-provoking and wry exploration of outrage culture through the lens of stand-up comedy, with notables like Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, and Adam Carolla detailing its stifling impact on comedy and the exchange of ideas. What will the future will be like if we can't learn how to take a joke?
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame
Overview: Fedoras, mom's underpants, and puppy love all make Jim Norton's s**t list in 'Mouthful of Shame'.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-14
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Pitching Tents
Overview: In a working-class town in 1984, a high school senior's future creates a tug-of-war between his no-nonsense father and his crackpot guidance counselor until an encounter with a goddess helps him uncover his true destiny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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The Comedian
Overview: An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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White Chicks, Incorporated
Overview: Late 90's party movie starring New Jersey comedians
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Whitney Cummings Bleep Show
Overview: Just For Laughs presents the 75-minute comedy special that had too much funny to fit into one hour. Filmed live at Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs Festival, Whitney Cummings presents the comedy style that has made her a household name. In this unique HBO Canada event, the TV starlet brings the best in filthy, raunchy, and outrageous comedy as she hosts seven comics, including Derek Seguin, Bridgett Everett, Jim Norton, Tom Papa, Katherine Ryan, Damien Lemon, and Neal Brennan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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Meet the Creeps, Vol. 1
Overview: A hidden-camera comedy that puts unsuspecting people in the cross hairs of comics Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson, KC Armstrong and their band of hilarious predators. In Meet the Creeps, Florentine and Jamieson are out to make people as uncomfortable as possible while capturing it all on camera. The viewers are in on the joke. Those who they are creeping out, are not. There are no happy endings to these pranks. We never reveal to our victims that it was all a big joke. Each bit fades to black as the viewer wonders what the f*ck just happened!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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The Roast of Rich Vos
Overview: A roast in the traditional sense, where friends take down one of their own, no holds barred. In this unfiltered hour and a half, Rich Vos takes an unreasonable amount of hits from a group of comedians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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Oh, Rick!
Overview: Redefine success through the eyes of comedy's everyman, Rick Crom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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The Irishman
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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This Is Stand-Up
Overview: An intimate and revealing insight into the work and lives of Stand-Up Comedians. Some of the biggest names in the game reveal what it's like to pursue this most challenging, yet important art-form.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-12
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Funny Pains
Overview: In a height of the #MeToo movement, feminism, and the infiltration of stand-up comedy by the politically correct, the life and times of courageous comedian Wendi Starling is examined.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-26
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Courting Condi
Overview: A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic documentary feature will follow one love-struck soul's hilarious, emotionally engaging quest to woo one of the most mysterious figures in American politics, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Devin Ratray is an American Everyman - a 30 year old New York based website designer, musician and besotted admirer of Condi, who is doing all he can to meet her and penetrate her heart, soul and stretch limo.
Genres: Documentary Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-06
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The Gynecologists
Overview: A group of wacky gynecologists look after a pregnant woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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American Dummy
Overview: Sidesplitters stars Lewis Black (the Daily Show, and the owner of the club in American Dummy) and Jim Norton (the clubs Host in American Dummy) as a comedy team in vein of Abbot and Costello or the Marx Brothers. It follows their career together from the Vaudville stage to the retirement home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-21
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Best of Stand-up 2020
Overview: Unnecessary milk substitutes. Bad passwords. Burlap underpants. 2020 may have sucked, but thankfully the jokes didn't.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy
Overview: A documentary about the life and career of controversial stand-up comedian, Patrice O'Neal, who released only one special before his death in 2011.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-19
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