James Patrick Anthony Dore (born July 26, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, political commentator, podcaster and YouTube personality. He is the host of The Jimmy Dore Show, a comedic political talk show available on Rokfin, Rumble, Twitter and YouTube.

Dore started as a comedian in Chicago, Illinois, in 1989 and made several appearances on late night talk shows early in his comedy career. From 2005 onward, his performances increasingly included political commentary. Dore was affiliated with The Young Turks from 2009 to 2019 and appeared on The Young Turks Network show titled Aggressive Progressives. From 2009 to 2021, The Jimmy Dore Show was broadcast on public radio station KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, California. From 2021 onward, The Jimmy Dore Show became entirely independent and streams live, as well as posts, via Rokfin, Rumble, Twitter and YouTube regularly.

Dore was born in southwest Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 1965, into a Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. He was raised in the blue-collar neighborhood of Vittum Park.

Dore has 11 siblings and is the youngest of seven boys. Due to his large family, Dore grew accustomed to playing to an audience early in life, and he used comedy to avoid beatings from his older brothers. Dore's father was a policeman who owned a brickwork business. Dore has described his father as being a Reagan Democrat, and in Dore's senior year of high school, he argued with his father against Ronald Reagan's presidency.

For 12 years, he attended Catholic schools, followed by Illinois State University, dropping out after three years and gaining employment as a forklift driver. He later graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in marketing communications.

Dore started performing stand-up comedy in Chicago in 1989. In 1995, he moved to Los Angeles, where his first big break was an appearance on Comedy Central's Make Me Laugh. He has said he began pursuing his career after watching many late-night talk shows and thinking he could do better than them. The stand-up comedians that influenced Dore include George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Hicks.

Dore has made appearances as a stand-up comic on late-night television shows such as ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, and NBC's Late Friday. He was the lead performer in a Comedy Central Presents half-hour special on April 9, 2004. He was also a writer-performer for the off-Broadway show The Marijuana-Logues, which ran at the Actor's Playhouse in New York City.

Dore has performed at the Tropicana Comedy Stop in Las Vegas, the Palms' Playboy Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star (now known as the Laugh Factory) at the Silver Legacy in Reno, and Harrah's on the Las Vegas Strip. He has performed at several comedy festivals, including Just for Laughs in Montreal, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Amsterdam Comedy Festival, and has also performed for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.