| Jonathan was born in New York near the banks of the rancid Hudson River in the late nineteenth century AD.With a dead beat Dad and a circus acrobat Mother, Jonathan was raised mostly by his Grandmother, bearded fat ladies and clowns. "I was 28 before I found out I wasn't a sideshow act" Jonathan has said. "I still spin plates from time to time when I need a few bucks". Jonathan's Mother moved him to Phoenix Arizona where he made his first televison appearance on the children's show The Wallace and Ladmo Show. "Back then it was very hard being a New Yorker in cowboy contry. I had to drop the accent quick! When I was 10, this kid Billy D. Barnsworth used to crack me over the head just for fun. Wallace and Ladmo saved my life. I was an instant celebrity and no one could touch me. It's been all down hill from there. Jonathan attended Alice Cooper's Alma Mater, Camelback High School in Phoenix. "I met Alice in the back of a plane and we talked about the old days. I didn't know what he was talking about". After Jonathan was turned down by ASU, NAU and U of A, Jonathan moved to San Francisco where he drove taxis and lived by the gun. "Once I drove backwards on Montgomery Street all the way to Clay Street just in time to run over my fare. Fourteen bucks down the drain". After living in San Francisco for ten years Jonathan moved to Seattle where he opened up an Espresso Bar with his first wife Medusa. "My wife was great, it was the snakes that got in the way". It was there at his cafe where Jonathan got the comedy bug. "I was working the bar when one of my regulars told me that he thought I was so funny I should move to LA and become a star. So I did, just like everyone else in this crazy city. A city of people that think they're funny. That's where I belonged". Since moving to Los Angeles Jonathan has worked his special brand of comedy in clubs all over the United Stats and around the world. He's been in numerous comedy competitions including The San Francisco Comedy Competition three times. Jonathan was a semi finalist at the Boston Comedy Competition in 2004 and was runner up in the Philadelphia Comedy Competition in 2003 (Josh Blue was the winner). This year, NBC chose Jonathan to appear in the upcoming season of Last Comic Standing, where he will make his network television debut this summer. "It's not about the money", Jonathan was overheard saying, "It's about the Hudson River, The Wallace and Ladmo Show and that little punk Billy D. Barnsworth. Now what do you think Billy D.? You little bastard". |
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| Here I am on the Wallace and Ladmo show! I'm the one second from the right. |