Jon Dore was formerly a correspondent for CTV’s Canadian Idol. Dore also appeared on his own Comedy Now! special for CTV and The Comedy Network, and was featured on the A Channel’s comedy special Toronto Laughs. His show, The Jon Dore Television Show, can be seen on The Comedy Network in Canada, and on the Independent Film Channel in the United States. In July 2008, Dore appeared on Comedy Central’s stand-up show, Live at Gotham along with several other comedians. In 2010, he appeared on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

On November 11, 2010, he was the first featured comedian on Conan.

In March 2011, he hosted Funny as Hell on HBO Canada, a show featuring alternative, or musical comedy acts. Season 3 of Funny as Hell premiered on March 22, 2013.

In 2013, Dore appeared as a main cast member alongside Sarah Chalke and Brad Garrett on the short-lived sitcom How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) and was interviewed by Melinda Hill for the web series All Growz Up with Melinda Hill.

In 2014 he appeared in an uncredited cameo on Alan Thicke’s TLC show “Unusually Thicke” as a drunken stranger, who crashes 16-year-old Carter Thicke’s party. That same year he appeared in two episodes of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer.