Jackie Martling Biography
Jackie Martling is an American stand-up comedian, writer, radio personality, author and actor also known as “Jackie the Joke Man”.
He is best known as the former head writer for The Howard Stern Show from 1983 to 2001. In addition, he is the co-creator of a line of electronic joke products with EB-Excalibur, and their MiniJokeMaster Jr. keychain is sold through various retailers.
Prior to this, he released his first music album, Happy Endings of 2008. Martling has written two books, Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book of 1998 and The Joke Man: Bow to Stern of 2017.
Furthermore, he has released six 78-minute dirty joke CDs, three videos, a DVD (A Safe Distance from Genius), five joke books including 1998’s best-selling Simon & Schuster title, Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling’s Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book, and the iPhone app The Jackie Button.
Jackie Martling Age
Jackie was born on February 14, 1948, in Mineola, New York, United States. Therefore, he is 71 years of age as of 2019.
Jackie Martling Height
He stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m).
Jackie Martling Family
Jackie was to his parents born on February 14, 1948, in Mineola, New York, United States. Prior to this, he was raised on Long Island, New York. He began a career in stand-up comedy in 1979, developing a blue comedy act in local venues.
Nonetheless, he self-produced his first of three comedy albums during this time, What Did You Expect? of 1979. After becoming involved with Rick Dees’s radio show as a regular joke feature, Martling sent his albums to New York City radio personality Howard Stern, who invited him as a weekly guest and writer in 1983.
Citing this, it led to his hiring as head writer from 1986 to 2001. He released further albums during his tenure, including Sgt. Pecker of 1996, Joke Man of 1996, Hot Dogs + Donuts of 1998.
Since his departure from The Howard Stern Show, Martling has undertaken various projects, including acting roles in television and film, and continues to perform stand-up. From 2006 to 2014, he was the host of Jackie’s Joke Hunt on Sirius XM Satellite Radio.
Jackie Martling Wife
Jackie married Nancy Sirianni who is his former wife, where they shared vows to be with each other. However, the couple stayed together for a long time up until 2003 due to their personal problems. They don’t have any children.
After his divorce, he became like a freed bird where he dated other people, but none of them turned out to be serious.
Nonetheless, he dated Emily Conners in 2012, where he spent most of his time but separated after a short period. Furthermore, there were rumors to be that Jackie was in a relationship with Alisha Klass but, not publically announced information is available.
Jackie Martling Net Worth
He sits at an approximate net worth of $2 million as of 2019. He has earned this lucrative income through his successful career as a comedian, comedy writer, and radio personality.
Jackie Martling Books
- Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling’s Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book (1998)
- The Joke Man: Bow to Stern (2017)
Jackie Martling Young
Martling turned into the vocalist and guitarist subsequent to coming back to New York, in The Off-Hour Rockers with guitarist Chris Bates and keyboardist Herbie Werner, with whom joined jokes, banjos and the kazoo in their sets. He likewise performed performance shows and made wisecracks during his demonstration. To suit the band’s rigging, Martling drove a utilized funeral car. Martling paid attention to stand-up satire more when, in 1976, he went to an open-mic night at Catch a Rising Star parody club in New York City.
“The auditioner rescued early and the MC wasn’t in the room, so I hopped in front of an audience and made a wisecrack, one that I was certain the whole world knew. The MC, David Sayh, returned the room and saw me up there however let me finish”. State urged Martling to keep executing as a joke teller, and before long discovered that “a couple of individuals knew any of the zillions of jokes I knew”.
By 1979, Bates and Werner disbanded the Off Hour Rockers to begin another gathering. By then, Martling began to seek after stand-up satire full-time, building up his stage demonstration of melodies and grimy jokes. Martling met any semblance of humorists Eddie Murphy, Rob Bartlett, and Bob Nelson during a gig at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York. They would perform for a few minutes at Martling’s gigs.
He set up a “dial-a-joke” phone line from his parent’s loft in 1979, Jackie’s “Utilization Your Finger! (516) 922-WINE”, which stays in activity right up ’til today. That year, Martling discharged his first satire collection, What Did You Expect?! of 1979, which he recorded himself utilizing his very own chronicle hardware. This was trailed by Goin’ Ape! of 1980. Martling made a leap forward in 1981 when Dave Lipson, essayist, and maker of Rick Dees’ morning radio show on KIIS in Los Angeles, found his joke line and played his day by day joke reports on Dees’ program.
The introduction drove Martling to star in an assigned joke section for Dees, who proceeded to give Martling his epithet, “The Joke Man”. Additionally, in 1981, Martling discharged his third collection, Normal People Are People You Don’t Know That Well of 1981.
Jackie Martling Howard Stern
Martling first knew about radio character Howard Stern in August 1982 when the proprietor of Garvin’s satire club in Washington, D.C., where Stern performed during his time at WWDC, proposed to Martling that he send his parody collections to him.
By mid-1983, Martling had sent his three satire collections to Howard Stern, at that point, not exactly a year into his spell in evenings at WNBC in New York City. Harsh fancied his material and welcomed him on as a visitor in February 1983, which before long transformed into a week by week visitor spot without pay. Harsh at that point started a normal section titled “Stump The Comedian”, a challenge where guests were tested to begin a joke that Martling needed to give the punchline to, else they win prizes.
Martling would discharge further collections during his time on the show, including Sgt. Pecker (1996), Joke Man (1996), Hot Dogs + Donuts (1998), and F Jackie (2000).
In mid-1998, Martling was missing on the show for about a month and a half while his agreement with WXRK proprietor Infinity Broadcasting Corporation was being renegotiated. During this time, he wouldn’t be taped on the E! network show until he had likewise verified an agreement from the channel. Martling had gotten some much-needed rest to arrange his agreement “three or multiple times” all through his time on the show.
In February 2001, Martling impacted the world forever when he turned into the main entertainer to perform at the B.B. Lord Blues Club in New York City.
On March 5, 2001, Stern reported Martling’s takeoff from the show after arrangements fell through again. Martling, who was acquiring $578,000 at the time, requested $1 million for the following five years, yet accepted his legal advisor’s recommendation and declined the station’s last idea of $650,000.
Jackie Martling House
Jackie just loved Bayville. Citing this, he and his ex-wife Nancy moved into a house that they rented and then. Prior to this, they finally bought a house on the president’s streets.
Furthermore, they eventually bought another house right on the beach in which he lives today. During an interview, he gave the following statement regarding his house:
“I live in heaven. Today, I woke up and swam out to the buoy and came back. Then, I rode my bike 10 miles down Centre Island, past Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Billy Joel’s house and back. And two, three, four times a day I’ll drop what I’m doing and swim. Usually, when I come home late at night, I put on my bathrobe, go down and just swim in the water naked. I can’t say enough about how much I love it.”
Jackie Martling Laugh
Jackie Martling Twitter
Tweets by JackieMartling