The Amazing Johnathan, the magician and comedian who was a longtime fixture on late-night television and the Las Vegas strip, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. He was 63.
The cause of death was end-stage heart failure, per the New York Times, with the entertainer — born Johnathan Edward Szeles — previously revealing he had been diagnosed with a heart condition. Szeles’ wife, the performer Anastasia Synn, confirmed her husband’s death, telling the Review-Journal he died in his sleep Tuesday night.
“The last thing I said to him was, ‘I love you,...
The cause of death was end-stage heart failure, per the New York Times, with the entertainer — born Johnathan Edward Szeles — previously revealing he had been diagnosed with a heart condition. Szeles’ wife, the performer Anastasia Synn, confirmed her husband’s death, telling the Review-Journal he died in his sleep Tuesday night.
“The last thing I said to him was, ‘I love you,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Jon Blistein and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The Amazing Johnathan, the veteran magician and comic who headlined in Las Vegas for more than a decade and appeared often on television including stand-up specials and David Letterman’s shows, died late Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 63 and had been struggling with health problems including cardiomyopathy for several years.
His wife, sideshow stunt artist Anastasia Synn, confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Journal-Review today. “I’m losing my beautiful, brilliant husband,” she’d said Tuesday on social media.
Born John Edward Szeles on September 9, 1958, in Detroit, he began doing street comedy in San Francisco as in the early 1980s and starting landing guest spots on TV including Thicke of the Night, Up All Night and Late Night with David Letterman. He would go on to appear many times on Letterman’s show on NBC and later CBS.
As stand-up comedy boomed in the late ’80s and early 1990s,...
His wife, sideshow stunt artist Anastasia Synn, confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Journal-Review today. “I’m losing my beautiful, brilliant husband,” she’d said Tuesday on social media.
Born John Edward Szeles on September 9, 1958, in Detroit, he began doing street comedy in San Francisco as in the early 1980s and starting landing guest spots on TV including Thicke of the Night, Up All Night and Late Night with David Letterman. He would go on to appear many times on Letterman’s show on NBC and later CBS.
As stand-up comedy boomed in the late ’80s and early 1990s,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Illusionists sometimes rely on forced perspective to carry off a trick. Ben Berman’s meandering tragi-comic documentary The Amazing Johnathan could do with some perspective of its own.
In the world of stand-up John Szeles – The Amazing Johnathan – was huge. His jaw-dropping act combined sleight of hand with hardcore gore, to deliciously gross effect and from the mid-’80s until his last shows in 2014 he made fans of industry professionals alongside the comedy club crowds and Vegas audiences he entertained.
Director Ben Berman capitalises on this fanbase early on in his film when he interviews Penn Jillette, Criss Angel, Judy Gold and Eric André (among others) lauding Szeles’ skills and pondering his legacy (he amusingly returns to them later in the film with questions of another kind). Because The Amazing Johnathan is dying – handed a death sentence diagnosis of cardiomyopathy complete with a one-year countdown clock – and has withdrawn from showbiz.
In the world of stand-up John Szeles – The Amazing Johnathan – was huge. His jaw-dropping act combined sleight of hand with hardcore gore, to deliciously gross effect and from the mid-’80s until his last shows in 2014 he made fans of industry professionals alongside the comedy club crowds and Vegas audiences he entertained.
Director Ben Berman capitalises on this fanbase early on in his film when he interviews Penn Jillette, Criss Angel, Judy Gold and Eric André (among others) lauding Szeles’ skills and pondering his legacy (he amusingly returns to them later in the film with questions of another kind). Because The Amazing Johnathan is dying – handed a death sentence diagnosis of cardiomyopathy complete with a one-year countdown clock – and has withdrawn from showbiz.
- 11/18/2019
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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