Both stand-up comedy and magic rely on the performer anticipating the audience’s expectations and choosing to uphold or subvert them at strategic moments. Club comics of the ’80s did this by framing ...

Documentarians, like journalists, have a rule: stay out of the stories you tell. This is well and good, though it assumes an impossible distance between storyteller and story subject. Stories do not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amazing Jonathan, the audacious magician and stand-up comedian who was a longtime headliner on the Las Vegas Strip and a ...

This video is the ultimate collector's item for the Amazing Johnathan's true fans. A 48 minute live performance of Johnathan taped at The Flamingo in Las Vegas. Be warned that it's not like what you ...

John Szeles, known in the entertainment world as The Amazing Johnathan, a Las Vegas-based comic-magician with metro Detroit roots, died Tuesday. He was 63. A well-known prankster and a skilled ...

John Edward Szeles, the magician and stand up comedian better known by his stage name, The Amazing Johnathan, has died. His death, confirmed by his wife, fellow performer Anastasia Synn, was the ...