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Jo Koy is the professional stage name of Joseph Glenn Herbert Sr. Jo Koy is a stand up comedian who started off modestly doing his comedy sets from the stage of a coffee house in Las Vegas but now sells out venues around the world.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Montreal, Canada\u2019s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival gave him the ward for \u201cStand Up Comedian of the Year\u201d. Jo Koy has had 4 comedy specials that have aired on Netflix and Comedy Central. Comin\u2019 In Hot is his most recent one on Netflix.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Jo Koy\u2019s Live From Seattle album reached the top spot on Billboard\u2019s comedy chart. Jo Koy also runs a podcast called The Koy Pond with Jo Koy.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has been a round table guest on more than one hundred and forty episodes of the E! late night show Chelsea Lately along with other shows such as The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Lights Out with David Spade, @Midnight, Beat Bobby Flay, The Breakfast Club, etc.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy\u2019s Career<\/h2>\n![\"Los,Angeles,,Ca,-,Oct,3:,Tia,Carrere;,Jo,Koy\"](\"https:\/\/www.networthinformer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Tia-Carrere-Jo-Koy-at-Paramount-Pictures-premiere-of-Footloose.jpg\")
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To this day, Jo Koy gives full credit to his mom for his talents in both comedy and acting. She remains to this day one of the main sources for his stand up, often filling his comedy shows with funny stories about her.<\/p>\n
Throughout his childhood, she strongly encouraged Jo Koy to take part in talent shows at elementary, middle, and high schools. Jo Koy would also often create productions for his friends and family when he was growing up, thanks to her influence and pride in his abilities.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Jo Koy decided to pursue stand up as a living thanks to the encouragement he received from her, the rest of his family, and his friends. Jo Koy started off performing at a small coffee house in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.<\/p>\n
This was in 1994, and he did so well that Jo Koy soon went from coming to open mic nights with his material to ultimately achieving a regular spot in the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino\u2019s famous Catch a Rising Star show.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Jo Koy, inspired by the acclaim he\u2019d been received, rented out the Huntridge Theatre to put on his comedy shows, going door to door to sell tickets to see him perform his stand up in front of an audience.<\/p>\n
This went so successfully for him that Jo Koy finally decided to relocate to Los Angeles, California, United States of America, in an attempt to make it big and turn stand up comedy into a real and viable career for him.<\/p>\n
This was after a Hollywood talent scout saw Jo Koy perform in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, and encouraged him to come out. This talent scout also helped Jo Koy get his first ever appearance on TV, namely for Black Entertainment Television\u2019s show ComicView. Jo Koy ended up appearing on 2 seasons of this show.<\/p>\n
Since then, Jo Koy has appeared in various other stand up specials on TV. One of them was Jamie Foxx Presents: Laffapalooza! Meanwhile, Jo Koy won the night at the show Showtime at the Apollo. Jo Koy also performed for the troops in a USO tour.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy also appeared on VH1\u2019s I Love the 70s\u2019 series, VH1\u2019s I Love the 80s\u2019 series, and VH1\u2019s I Love the 90s\u2019 series. Jo Koy also appeared on World\u2019s Dumbest on the Tru TV Network. Jo Koy has also done episodes of New Millennium. Jo Koy has also done commercials for the Amp\u2019d Mobile phone brand.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy also won a Gemini Award at the famous Montreal, Quebec, Canada comedy festival known as Just for Laughs, and due to this was invited back to perform yet again.<\/p>\n
For a few years, Jo Koy regularly appeared as a guest comedian on the round table hot topic discussions on Chelsea Handler\u2019s late night show Chelsea Lately. Jo Koy also joined on the Punisher comedy tour run by Carlos Mencia. During this, Jo Koy was playing to full houses of arenas with ten thousand seats a piece.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy appeared on The Tonight Show in 2005 when Jay Leno was the host. Jo Koy\u2019s set went so phenomenally well with both the audience and Jay Leno that he was one of the very few comics in the history of the show to get a standing ovation from the studio audience.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Jo Koy and Michael Yo, himself a TV host and comedian, joined forces to create The Michael Yo and Jo Koy Show, a comedy talk discussion podcast.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has been a round table guest on more than one hundred and forty episodes of the E! late night show Chelsea Lately.<\/p>\n
Other shows Jo Koy has appeared on include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Lights Out with David Spade, @Midnight, Beat Bobby Flay, The Breakfast Club, The Joy Behar Show, World\u2019s Funniest Fails, Jamie Foxx: Laffapalooza, and more.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy continues to tour all over the United States, along with appearing regularly on Adam Corolla\u2019s The Adam Corolla Show podcast. Jo Joy also hosts his own weekly podcast called The Koy Pond, which is part of the Podcast One family of podcasts.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has had two Comedy Central specials called Lights Out and Don\u2019t Make Him Angry. They both received extremely high ratings and excellent reviews.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has had two similarly successful Netflix specials. The first is Jo Koy: Live from Seattle, which came out on the twenty eighth of March in the year 2017. The second is Jo Koy: Comin\u2019 In Hot, which came out on the twelfth of June in the year 2019.<\/p>\n
In early 2019, Jo Koy closed out the Aspen Laugh Festival by playing two shows at Aspen, Colorado\u2019s Wheeler Opera House.<\/p>\n
At the start of 2020, Jo Koy had yet another Netflix comedy special called Joy Koy: In His Elements, which in addition to Jo Koy himself also featured other Filipino Americans in the entertainment industry, encompassing comedians, DJs, and more.<\/p>\n
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\nJo Koy: Early Life<\/h2>\n
Jo Koy was born as Joseph Glenn Herbert on the second day of June in the year 1971 in Tacoma, Washington, United States of America. Jo Koy\u2019s ethnicity is Filipino American.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy\u2019s dad was an American, who was at the time stationed, as a US Air Force pilot, in the Philippines, which is where he met the Filipina woman who would one day be his mom. They married shortly after meeting.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy\u2019s dad brought his mom back to the United States with him, where they began living in Spanaway, Washington, United States of America, before relocating to Tacoma, Washington, United States of America. Jo Koy went to Spanaway Lake High School to begin with, moving to Foss High School when they moved.<\/p>\n
After Jo Koy finished high school, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. They did this in order to be closer to Jo Koy\u2019s grandmother, who was elderly and ill at the time. Jo Koy was taking classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, but ultimately decided to drop out in order to focus on his comedy.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy got his stage name from an affectionate nickname given to him by his family when he was much younger. Jo Koy relayed this story on stage in a comedy club in Phoenix, Arizona, on the twenty second of September in the year 2019, during one of his stand up comedy routines.<\/p>\n
In 1989, when Jo Koy was 18 years old, he was discussing potential stage names with a cousin of his who he was close with when his cousin\u2019s mom called Jo in to eat dinner. She shouted \u201cJo Ko, eat!\u201d In the Tagalog language, \u201cKo\u201d is \u201cmy\u201d. Therefore, \u201cJo Ko\u201d is \u201cmy Joe\u201d, but he instead thought she\u2019d said, \u201cJo Koy\u201d.<\/p>\n
He liked it so much, Jo Koy took it as a name and has used that name from that point onwards.<\/p>\n
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\nJo Koy\u2019s Personal Life and Family<\/h2>\n
Joy Koy is currently in a romantic relationship with comedian Chelsea Handler, who used to be his boss at the Chelsea Lately show. Jo Koy used to be romantically involved with Angie King, with whom he had his son, who is called Joseph Herbert Jr, and was born in 2003. Jo Koy lives with Joseph Jr in the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Jo Koy established The Jo Koy Foundation, a charity. It had \u201cHilarity for Charity\u201d, its first philanthropic comedy night that year, which took the form of a show hosted by Jo Koy along with a number of other comedy guest stars.<\/p>\n
Hilarity for Charity was held at The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Universal City, California, United States of America, and all proceeds went to The Children\u2019s Hospital of Orange County in California.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy\u2019s Social Media Influence<\/h2>\n
Jo Koy has a healthy social media presence across the internet, which provides a way for Jo Koy to connect with his fans, which in turns helps Jo Koy net worth continue to build.<\/p>\n
Facebook<\/a><\/h3>\nJo Koy has an official public verified Facebook account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Facebook account handle is simply @jokoy, all lower case. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has nearly three million followers as of the present time.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy uses his Facebook account to post photos and videos of himself, and to post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n
Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\nJo Koy has an official public verified Twitter account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Twitter account handle is simply @Jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has early two hundred and fifty eight thousand followers as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following over fourteen hundred people currently.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy uses his Twitter account to shares his thoughts and observations, post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n
Instagram<\/a><\/h3>\nJo Koy has an official public verified Instagram account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Instagram account handle is simply @jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has over two and a half million followers as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following over four hundred people currently.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy uses his Instagram account to post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n
LinkedIn<\/h3>\n
Jo Koy does not have a LinkedIn account as of the present time. Should he sign up for one at any point in the future, we will be sure to update this page with that information. Our goal is to inform our readers of all of the latest news about Jo Koy net worth, life, and career.<\/p>\n
TikTok<\/h3>\n
Jo Koy has an official public verified TikTok account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified TikTok account handle is simply @jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has three million followers and nearly twenty four and a half million likes as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following fifteen people currently.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy uses his TikTok account to post fun videos, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n
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\nJo Koy\u2019s Net Worth & Bio Summary<\/h2>\n\n
Image Credit: Joe Seer\/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n
To this day, Jo Koy gives full credit to his mom for his talents in both comedy and acting. She remains to this day one of the main sources for his stand up, often filling his comedy shows with funny stories about her.<\/p>\n
Throughout his childhood, she strongly encouraged Jo Koy to take part in talent shows at elementary, middle, and high schools. Jo Koy would also often create productions for his friends and family when he was growing up, thanks to her influence and pride in his abilities.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Jo Koy decided to pursue stand up as a living thanks to the encouragement he received from her, the rest of his family, and his friends. Jo Koy started off performing at a small coffee house in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.<\/p>\n
This was in 1994, and he did so well that Jo Koy soon went from coming to open mic nights with his material to ultimately achieving a regular spot in the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino\u2019s famous Catch a Rising Star show.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Jo Koy, inspired by the acclaim he\u2019d been received, rented out the Huntridge Theatre to put on his comedy shows, going door to door to sell tickets to see him perform his stand up in front of an audience.<\/p>\n
This went so successfully for him that Jo Koy finally decided to relocate to Los Angeles, California, United States of America, in an attempt to make it big and turn stand up comedy into a real and viable career for him.<\/p>\n
This was after a Hollywood talent scout saw Jo Koy perform in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, and encouraged him to come out. This talent scout also helped Jo Koy get his first ever appearance on TV, namely for Black Entertainment Television\u2019s show ComicView. Jo Koy ended up appearing on 2 seasons of this show.<\/p>\n
Since then, Jo Koy has appeared in various other stand up specials on TV. One of them was Jamie Foxx Presents: Laffapalooza! Meanwhile, Jo Koy won the night at the show Showtime at the Apollo. Jo Koy also performed for the troops in a USO tour.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy also appeared on VH1\u2019s I Love the 70s\u2019 series, VH1\u2019s I Love the 80s\u2019 series, and VH1\u2019s I Love the 90s\u2019 series. Jo Koy also appeared on World\u2019s Dumbest on the Tru TV Network. Jo Koy has also done episodes of New Millennium. Jo Koy has also done commercials for the Amp\u2019d Mobile phone brand.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy also won a Gemini Award at the famous Montreal, Quebec, Canada comedy festival known as Just for Laughs, and due to this was invited back to perform yet again.<\/p>\n
For a few years, Jo Koy regularly appeared as a guest comedian on the round table hot topic discussions on Chelsea Handler\u2019s late night show Chelsea Lately. Jo Koy also joined on the Punisher comedy tour run by Carlos Mencia. During this, Jo Koy was playing to full houses of arenas with ten thousand seats a piece.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy appeared on The Tonight Show in 2005 when Jay Leno was the host. Jo Koy\u2019s set went so phenomenally well with both the audience and Jay Leno that he was one of the very few comics in the history of the show to get a standing ovation from the studio audience.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Jo Koy and Michael Yo, himself a TV host and comedian, joined forces to create The Michael Yo and Jo Koy Show, a comedy talk discussion podcast.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has been a round table guest on more than one hundred and forty episodes of the E! late night show Chelsea Lately.<\/p>\n
Other shows Jo Koy has appeared on include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Lights Out with David Spade, @Midnight, Beat Bobby Flay, The Breakfast Club, The Joy Behar Show, World\u2019s Funniest Fails, Jamie Foxx: Laffapalooza, and more.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy continues to tour all over the United States, along with appearing regularly on Adam Corolla\u2019s The Adam Corolla Show podcast. Jo Joy also hosts his own weekly podcast called The Koy Pond, which is part of the Podcast One family of podcasts.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has had two Comedy Central specials called Lights Out and Don\u2019t Make Him Angry. They both received extremely high ratings and excellent reviews.<\/p>\n
Jo Koy has had two similarly successful Netflix specials. The first is Jo Koy: Live from Seattle, which came out on the twenty eighth of March in the year 2017. The second is Jo Koy: Comin\u2019 In Hot, which came out on the twelfth of June in the year 2019.<\/p>\n
In early 2019, Jo Koy closed out the Aspen Laugh Festival by playing two shows at Aspen, Colorado\u2019s Wheeler Opera House.<\/p>\n
At the start of 2020, Jo Koy had yet another Netflix comedy special called Joy Koy: In His Elements, which in addition to Jo Koy himself also featured other Filipino Americans in the entertainment industry, encompassing comedians, DJs, and more.<\/p>\n
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Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Seth Rogen Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Jo Koy was born as Joseph Glenn Herbert on the second day of June in the year 1971 in Tacoma, Washington, United States of America. Jo Koy\u2019s ethnicity is Filipino American.<\/p>\n Jo Koy\u2019s dad was an American, who was at the time stationed, as a US Air Force pilot, in the Philippines, which is where he met the Filipina woman who would one day be his mom. They married shortly after meeting.<\/p>\n Jo Koy\u2019s dad brought his mom back to the United States with him, where they began living in Spanaway, Washington, United States of America, before relocating to Tacoma, Washington, United States of America. Jo Koy went to Spanaway Lake High School to begin with, moving to Foss High School when they moved.<\/p>\n After Jo Koy finished high school, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America. They did this in order to be closer to Jo Koy\u2019s grandmother, who was elderly and ill at the time. Jo Koy was taking classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, but ultimately decided to drop out in order to focus on his comedy.<\/p>\n Jo Koy got his stage name from an affectionate nickname given to him by his family when he was much younger. Jo Koy relayed this story on stage in a comedy club in Phoenix, Arizona, on the twenty second of September in the year 2019, during one of his stand up comedy routines.<\/p>\n In 1989, when Jo Koy was 18 years old, he was discussing potential stage names with a cousin of his who he was close with when his cousin\u2019s mom called Jo in to eat dinner. She shouted \u201cJo Ko, eat!\u201d In the Tagalog language, \u201cKo\u201d is \u201cmy\u201d. Therefore, \u201cJo Ko\u201d is \u201cmy Joe\u201d, but he instead thought she\u2019d said, \u201cJo Koy\u201d.<\/p>\n He liked it so much, Jo Koy took it as a name and has used that name from that point onwards.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Ali Wong Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n Joy Koy is currently in a romantic relationship with comedian Chelsea Handler, who used to be his boss at the Chelsea Lately show. Jo Koy used to be romantically involved with Angie King, with whom he had his son, who is called Joseph Herbert Jr, and was born in 2003. Jo Koy lives with Joseph Jr in the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n In 2009, Jo Koy established The Jo Koy Foundation, a charity. It had \u201cHilarity for Charity\u201d, its first philanthropic comedy night that year, which took the form of a show hosted by Jo Koy along with a number of other comedy guest stars.<\/p>\n Hilarity for Charity was held at The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Universal City, California, United States of America, and all proceeds went to The Children\u2019s Hospital of Orange County in California.<\/p>\n Jo Koy has a healthy social media presence across the internet, which provides a way for Jo Koy to connect with his fans, which in turns helps Jo Koy net worth continue to build.<\/p>\n Jo Koy has an official public verified Facebook account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Facebook account handle is simply @jokoy, all lower case. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has nearly three million followers as of the present time.<\/p>\n Jo Koy uses his Facebook account to post photos and videos of himself, and to post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n Jo Koy has an official public verified Twitter account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Twitter account handle is simply @Jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has early two hundred and fifty eight thousand followers as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following over fourteen hundred people currently.<\/p>\n Jo Koy uses his Twitter account to shares his thoughts and observations, post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n Jo Koy has an official public verified Instagram account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified Instagram account handle is simply @jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has over two and a half million followers as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following over four hundred people currently.<\/p>\n Jo Koy uses his Instagram account to post plugs for his latest stand up specials, events, and appearances, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n Jo Koy does not have a LinkedIn account as of the present time. Should he sign up for one at any point in the future, we will be sure to update this page with that information. Our goal is to inform our readers of all of the latest news about Jo Koy net worth, life, and career.<\/p>\n Jo Koy has an official public verified TikTok account. Jo Koy\u2019s official public verified TikTok account handle is simply @jokoy. On this popular social media platform, Jo Koy has three million followers and nearly twenty four and a half million likes as of the present time. Jo Koy is himself following fifteen people currently.<\/p>\n Jo Koy uses his TikTok account to post fun videos, which helps connect Jo Koy with his fans and make them aware of his latest projects. In turn, this helps Jo Koy net worth as well.<\/p>\n Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n George Lopez Net Worth<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJo Koy: Early Life<\/h2>\n
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\nJo Koy\u2019s Personal Life and Family<\/h2>\n
Jo Koy\u2019s Social Media Influence<\/h2>\n
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LinkedIn<\/h3>\n
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\nJo Koy\u2019s Net Worth & Bio Summary<\/h2>\n\n