The Amazing Johnathan, the standup comic, and magician who would shock the hell out of his audiences regularly until a bad heart forced him to mostly retire in 2014. He was 63.
Johnathan, whose legal name was Johnathan Szeles, passed away about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Johnathan’s wife, the sideshow stunt artist Anastasia Synn, confirmed her husband’s passing about a half-hour after his death.
“The last thing I said to him was, ‘I love you, honey, I’ll be with you when you get up from your nap,’ ” Synn said near midnight Tuesday night. “We were feeding him oranges and strawberries. He was so peaceful. He said, ‘Yay!’ He had the most pure and sweetest look on his face.”
Born in Detroit on Sept. 9, 1958, Johnathan developed an act peppered with drug references and gruesome/funny bits, such as pretending to swallow his own eyeball, skewering his tongue with an oversized nail and taking swigs of Windex.
Check him out. I think it holds up.