In Case You Missed It - The Amazing Jonathan
Friday, January 13th
Friday, January 13th
The Amazing Jonathan joins us in studio to talk about his recent health issues and to talk about his upcoming shows this weekend at The Wilbur and Foxwoods!
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They Hill Man Morning Show on demand. And more I'm always online pin on your schedule at WAS. Dot com. Good morning and hello and how Mario. Good we gotta get deities that. Well. You know we're. Are you doing a documentary that. What is the subject. Of the X. The that the that the that the so called western Wear and yeah. I. Know on your. Your documentary crews this week and this is. And he's from Comedy Central and know them and in adult swim and then we have the other. Really important camera crew. He would make engine off he had people people would have done amana lawyers you know that Maria sister over Sugar Bowl and now that's about a guy who who lost a lot of them in the world trade centers right. Yeah today they are multi. Oscar winners. And I'm Mike. Unlike Comedy Central. Like a tease. Yes who have their foam around for four months but one as it hasn't really no probably hasn't been a lot of fun now. Now you have tries to get in the bathtub and when one of the bathrooms is really it's like Miley Cyrus she sends everybody pictures of herself being we learn Gabby you know what what would you rather look at would you look at that I don't watch me do and I think Elena. Bernstein analyst Tyler yeah if fours then it seemed like you if I was at Guantanamo Bay or something of forcing and I think you asked that I would yes look at data is used there and what you've been doing yeah even doing year your act AAR even in Vegas for. Holland you think I've been doing man I would say. If I had to guess I'd say it's over twenty years way over thirty yes it's over thirty years yeah and probably 35 years. Everyone including guys come pick me up in the lobby has probably changed since I was yeah that's what I'm getting now autism. And Q well a minute that's and it's idea. Kind of was sent first concern here and then figure longevity and a good thing. Well it's pretty amazing thing to survive Friday as well and putt them I'm supposed to be here so I'm I'm happy to using a moment I have lot of why I retired. Three little over three years ago causes toy of the year and a half ago for what what was my heart my out rather. Yes they tell me you got a year and half and get things in order so solo while my cool stuff and that I waited around report to happen in what did you do though what were the things that you decided you a minute the sounds like it Tim McGraw signed on what the things that when they told you he had a year and a half left what did you go deal. Well I got rid of armament and material possessions just don't mean anything you anymore Dustin you get restart dumping stuff off to make. Make money for your family who's going to be left you know and but then that time comes that you get to decisions to make when some tells you that. You take the rest of your money and you have a good time with it flagrant yeah and it lowered yeah appearances. Are you. Think maybe that's not going to be the case may be the wrong and I should hold on my money's that I don't die broke yeah you know if Iran and eyes as chose that option. So in spend everything so. I'm Pam am financially and set set for life but. Yeah I do get rid of some things I love like I five with a twenty cars I counted so that was really which ones did you get rid of I got rid of the ones that probably had a clutch because they can't rev a clutch anymore because my feet are known from my heart damage on the gap he had an attempt to those often than the whole. Nine yards and so. I would have stem cells lines had stem cell therapy done and and and that pretty much saved my life I think ms. Emilia where you have to go for that well we can't say because it's illegal okay but was it like old Vegas because it was. Yeah client test tubes up the guy and a black market. Really thousand dollars for like an inch big throws into big you embryo embryonic fluid you know. All right school wasn't an overall house gable are you buying it for I get the babies myself wow Max. That's crazy you know Monica outlook and into supermarket you know yeah. Another month to live. But do you feel like that's a deal and yet it did was it's got to all the things arm. Because there's no circulation the news or taken toes off then your hands up work in and so that brought my feet back I could walk I was in a wheelchair. And that's how bad it was my heart rate was that. And thirteen or 14%. And pretty much dead after after closing lower than that so yeah I was pretty bad avenue and on hospitals for the last two years. Battling this thing and then finally got to in the control on my. I spent three years now so that's amazing I give Boortz and hostages from a law I'm or rather have yet states where might be funny you know. You know but mostly effort that debt of Bonn on stage routine pap kind of an. Update you wanna die on stage that was a lot of that's better than. In the house board wants. Flintstones. And Australia through. Has it hasn't been tested it hasn't been tough to do the act on you with this is the first last night was the first show I've I've done since I retired for full shall. I looked. I retired I announced I was to retire and everywhere and you know I get to a basically I was at my own funeral when you announced that are dying every one. You know thank you the cards you can be at your own funeral though it's kind of cool it with him people cared and and and I gave you. Play immediately after the gun battle Americans are on the public's fairways here but it will just view it you had a girlfriend back in the back on your ass yet to get your ass back program airs Saturday nearest back. She well how long are you able to hang for a little bit this journey okay they're amazing Jonathan. I think I mean if you think about Vegas. What it would it would. It's. Mean the shows. It's pretty interesting if you get a good show there you can pretty much do it for life right well you don't have to. Do for life because he makes so much money in Vegas played their thirteen years I was supposed to be there for a two week Phil and day for David Brenner. And our crowds were really good the casinos that lets him his own show and I was their thirteen years you know and I mean you're pulling in cash that you've never seen before I just I was living off my teacher money improved my judging given gives number art art they were paying 35000. Dollars a week. On thirty and oh yeah. I really weird guy every week for the last six years and made that. And that's and I live them animated thousand latest and teachers details so I was live and on that and put my checks in the bank every week I would just make my back but check. And after a few years and millions of millions of dollars I have to work anymore you know yeah surreal still have the best welfare and megs yeah highly ranked one you know no cosmopolitan give them a run power on like I go for crab legs with their -- offer crab legs and I locked into batters and allowed the fear on her face has been clean mile path what do you I think what do you figure most well known for you think it's the state use the cigarette later. The trick or do you probably knifed through arm and eggs gassed my ninth. I guess my arm problem butcher knife the show you did last night. New stuff he's doing well you know I here's the thing about that. Is that when your told this year critic Leo and you're you're you really can't concentrate on any one thing. Like east Arab okay I'm retired now have on these projects. But you cant concentrate because every time you start thinking of something. Another voice yours says hey you're gonna die why bother ya so yes it's real hard to focus and I did right some material. And chickened out doing a lot of it last night because it was the first time in three now appears performed. So I had to be. I was pretty nervous last night to see if I could do you know my stamina was good enough to do that an hour and ten minutes it's awesome and after forty minutes I felt everything start ago you know everything was shut down my hands where my eggs and so I got a I got off. I I staggered through the last fifteen minutes but I don't think they knew you know. That's a bit but you obviously want to. Yeah right now so I like it's like ease in the citizen being an agent Jonathan I'm just some guy dine out in a bag you know watching TV. I want to be me again and I find that you know. He Vanilla. The fans. People talk about you like your day afternoon. Pat there was a party just recently and someone was talking about me for some reason to the host. And they said I used to love this faculty amazing Johnson too bad about him Diane you know he's right yeah. I doubt about it in some. Wolves need to give me a hug and nor'easter and I'm like yeah. An acute mayors you know what he ran up and gave me Huggins was crime that you know Bono does admit that you were dead so yes it's good to get back here and have. Some. Branding go again you know yeah I'm some. Well here it's it's obviously a passion because the EU made you made all that money. And then you know you're you're you're challenged health wise so in order to go back and do it and he obviously because you love yeah yeah yeah yeah I realized I was I thought that I wouldn't miss performing really didn't think I would miss it but I did mr. Are you able to do anything forest today requirements. Who visually. Yeah a real blow and we get him some. Oh it has put literate guy as well and winner I want I want to make it out it's got a good its. Anyway so I get now I get in my thought a whole lot yeah. I'm ruin. Irving who. Yeah. Is on believe I would keep taking them to show you ideas so I put him flatly that against her head and then you pinch years. And you bend your finger import your other bow out. Right and it isn't perfect genius. All of you like tennis and video guy the magician doing narrow line here are some. That. That's the amazing Jonathan and Ireland's you ran that for anybody who wants to be an illusionist and wants to learn he see Gary gave away carrier should. On hold a news drove it oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well and it's like you don't use that extra in your brain disease. That's the blue evening yeah I don't know it's. I have my arm here. I'm a start to turn about right here is how most people can turn their armed but that's far. All right guys working on turning the wrong way around. These twists and twist his arm tourists around nine. That seed that's definitely an. Pretty grips are the those in my Grayson who you vote yes you may have been an interview guidelines with. Oh hold on wait elegant grace in the mountains one at parties don't we would be. Of how this all. Let's just go up in the upper left as I was well it was like what's gonna happen what could happen with a great this is enough from yeah. That's. Took a quick look at the those who don't it's back in my in my grade bullies and are you. I got imagine if you joke about how great an announcer died due to survive the hard thing in your children to grade students to protect on this show it to. I would even have to see the humor in that. I was dying in a row I face yeah that is extended upper lip. Are you doing and how you doing a show while you're here now I'm doing a show to will tonight look at theater and then tomorrow night at the foxwoods. Which is going to be the big one you know foods is. A lot of pressure there we're okay we're taping a Netflix bachelor's. What do you call yourself a comedian. An illusionist. A magician what's with what Coleman's health roster that's. Finally one old Communist. From. I'm a more of a comedian I think yeah there's magicians will tell you that. As a comedian on the good magician and as a magician on the decent oh yeah. Is there anybody that was doing this. Before you started that in influenced me that influence you Steve Martin was always he always had a good blend of comedy and magic he's he says with a known that he. I had no idea. It was a working at Disneyland doing comedy magic he wants out reel him. And I like his style public his brain was propped up like that. No hard to believe that but you care about you know a lot. He's damn good people the ride him yet but he's really good lives man he's really related to do with a watermelon. Elegant I just had Thanksgiving dinner with him you. Know I'm not MI out and yet he's doesn't have a house he wouldn't on the road. Now in his car not how would be that this guy but I. Italy Gallagher stays here yeah he is admittedly he's been in the live in nowadays but he still went what do you mean like he's the okay is this what does what he's had thirty. 351. Hour specials 351 hour special showed no one's ever done that means. He was toppled his game. Telling out to 3000 seat tonight. Now it's hard for him to get in the comedy club so of course you're gonna go through a little bit of mental anguish yeah you take that leap. So. Yeah he's a little. You know in money immediately go blow blue law of his blue and still can make money is capable making money emea one pulls the grand in the week easy. Even more but. In he started come around again he had ten heart attacks and and had a heart attack with the guys in the heart things that America. Just for at least how that factors salaries. You know I never had there are so are you chest pain and every. But I came out of the blue man eyes and you know. My my left side in my heart just decided to stop beating. So I've got only one side my RPI. What is that is it called a specific thing blogs card in my apathy enlarged heart. And there's some people can get new Hart's put in you know they put their name on the list and and I couldn't get on that list. Because I'm diabetic and they won't give diabetics its handset because getting healthy at that I was carrying it out putback and but that would I wouldn't sign up anyway average they would know you know I just was prepared for I'm I'm lives really really good mow my whole entire life I've never really anything bad. Happen to me have been really blessed that way I'm not religious but I've been really. Lucky I guess is a word and and and how is rated ago members I went hour from now I would be you know. We die down with a smile on my face that I've done a lot of stuff in my life and we have a legendary jinx on this program please don't say something. Like I didn't want to tell you yeah it's we this this program sometimes act and that goes and that organized tours and now that I cannot strategize and report last week. That you I mention I just time you and I actually go there and now. Yeah on boom gone. Yeah line I knew Jacque Jones aboard and and sheet item my friend the monkey. And backstage at one yeah. Like Joseph hunky dude yeah but he ran the monkey ran up her upper body and grab the wig offering it wouldn't give it back to round anyway the real and there was the ball. I know she was vault now there's it luster here now. That the prince mind. His first since being in geyser and know that his. Well when he married her got whether or not it probably wasn't when he when he married her I don't know that that in. They don't want a lot of here when you put it we and you wanted to be denied there so we asked. And Ava Gabor she was the morning green acres. Yeah yeah she was it worse as a sweetheart step sisters right I'd I think they were twins all the work that they're twins there from Hungary. And but the other one was really sweet you know really nice since you used to go with Merv Griffin who is actually my boss at the time and he was gay but she was at his front. Well its second Merv Griffin was gay com and liver IT yeah yeah I wish it was so when you started what energy start playing Vegas we. Probably around 2001. Oh is that reason I think it was before that knob in there I was I've I've headline never fourteen years and then retired the last the but the must've been a lot of those. Kind of though older celebrities who would come in go to the show so cool playing Vegas the celebrities outcome won't listen this act someone calls me up by the blue as of prince. Is talking about you on his website so I'm I go to prison website. And Graham he's going you gotta go see the amazing Jonathan he's off the hook and just watched my TV and cell. I get a call from prince Edward to a site and think temperaments community called off from prince I went to a site and thanked informants in Meehan and he calls me. Because my number and calls me and says well wanna come the Paisley park and much comedy videos because he's got this huge collection of comedy videos more than anyone. And so I was insistent and start talking about this war against stuff and you know he's you can't swear when you come into the house to get used profanity you know. So I just. Bowed out as you can go I didn't go I was too much for now yeah I'm agree were very amount that was in solidarity drug test while Marcia. I'm talking about the F bomb. Yeah. So all that negative costing wants to can be shown begs. So it's a cool all right so he shows up. And with 22 girls one on each arm big white hat impaired and a box code and really just looking grade. And the first word out of my amount percent this was. Headed upward and and he stood up. The two took the girls walked out on a lock on my show you're kidding 01 outlook because he said yeah there was an apple on the left and why government while even here. Yeah I mean he's basis career off that it's is every album had a and yes he left but on the way out game to America's rule is that you didn't I would say that yeah I ripped into him. And then for twenty minutes after you have to riveted that's how bad it was mad how you now have the vision to see past that word and CE RSC. The stupidity. Pretty can. You miss the good stuff yeah that is an innocent this. Caller on the Cranium board studio line premium quart nobody will sell you a Ford for last. Says that they got suspended in the sixth grade because of view the amazing Jonathan's on us. Pulled it out of there and hang your best so you'd better run you get them ready gained substantial. I did needs you I went after that with John county say that but I can't pocket routine yeah. Yeah I did that in school that got suspended. But you know what just I didn't say it what was it the law into your pocket. Up and then they suspended you hander pocket and he gets a Spanish and that and that about what I did I think that's what's what are you talking I think I know it's when you're talking about he says it was on that he's gone but it was a -- I think is a show it to you assert our nightly show it another it's another Visio but I mean our kids will duplicate what I am I do and and and some leave him duplicating it making a living off but doing it. Who's the best comedian. You ever saw Lou CK. Thousand gap him and over my favorite comic goes on fire and he's so funny I liked him Jim Jefferies and I'd really like those guys they're just. And I don't like pollute politically correct whatsoever in turn had steered the opposite way. You know to do what ever. In whatever comic says he should be able to say without. You know getting in trouble for now though. Well is there's a climate now where you can't make a joke and you can't laugh at them right now I know in terms good changeup that top halfback. It's. Well there's a show tonight at the Wilbur. And Dick desired tickets I assume going quipped yeah if you wanna go see the amazing John if any took. Good period of time off if you missed. The earlier discussion. He was told that due to his heart situation that he would. He would die within a year and a half. Stop working and now he's back for show that was last night it was good but is I can be as good as tonight show or even tomorrow will be in better cause problems this ramping up you know and a touchdown and a fox glassware yeah yeah somber and get my energy back and it was fun last night though it was on good immigrant it's great to see you thanks man it's really really had a bad blood there I'm glad you don't matter. And my stuff back. Economists yeah. And I don't. The card can drag menuing make numb legs what did you do in the car collection log everything with a clutch had to go you know because they can't feel that the difference between Clinton a break and what's basically be like this you know. So I'm I've got by myself that red lights with my wheels spinning and what's going on him happ on the break and have on the gas the little fun things like that that should propel me through the windshield soon. So yeah I have to to give up some of the really cool and yank who she about had to go in them I'm. And now and now well you keep some of them I've got still got fourteen or fifteen cars what's your favorite. GTO probably yes 67 GE O of biodiesel here grade convertible. And I love it now and I want it to Seattle see when you come back and I am I'll mention human will that you wanted Yukio. All of the time hardware. I check that they can't eat grapes. I think that's fair straightaway it takes the grapes to go to the greatest ago that I amazing Johnston who is at the Wilbert tonight and at foxwoods. Tomorrow. It's nine tour money. I'm not in your document and I am and give you permission of the Aminu is horrible and I'm in my wanna be an Allen Elena I wanna be in the document. That that. Adam can you zoom in this global brands isn't big enough for your head very island day it is for camera shoot to get your a look at elderly and wants to be the documents. That the hugs him. Yeah I.
