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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tributes to The Amazing Johnathan quickly appeared on social media ...

John Edward Szeles, the standup comic and magician who delighted in shocking audiences for decades as “The Amazing Johnathan,” died at his Las Vegas home Tuesday after a long battle with heart disease ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born John Edward Szeles on September 9, 1958, in Detroit, he began doing street comedy in San Francisco as in the early 1980s and ...

When the Amazing Johnathan began showing off his penchant for magic tricks and off-kilter comedy onstage at Pier 39 in the early 1980s, hundreds of people filled the plaza to see what the ...

Johnathan Edward Szeles, a stand up comedian and magician known for his recent Hulu documentary, has died. The performer, who is in large part known by his stage name of The Amazing Johnathan, passed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world has a little less magic with the death of comedian and magician The Amazing Johnathan at his Las Vegas home on Tuesday.

The world has a little less magic with the death of comedian and magician The Amazing Johnathan at his Las Vegas home on Tuesday. He was 63. The comic, whose real name was Johnathan Szeles, suffered ...

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 ...