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    The Amazing Johnathan is dead at 63. All that crystal methamphetamine and the bad heart finally caught up with him.

    The Amazing Johnathan, Las Vegas Stand Up Comedian and Magician, Dies at 63

    Saw his show probably a dozen times and knew him personally.

    R.I.P.

    It wasn't really the type of show that most would watch repeatedly, as it didn't vary much if at all, but we liked it and then he always gave us free tickets, including during periods when I wasn't playing in Vegas at all and had no comps coming from any casinos.


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    Some (I was one of them) couldn't get enough of his zany pseudo magic antics.

    One "trick" he used to perform was asking a member of the audience for a twenty dollar bill, which he would take commenting on how the trick worked better with a hundred. Then he would tear it up, and from behind a white cloth would say that he was performing magic, to make the bill reassemble, while we the audience would hear the sound of scotch tape being unrolled.

    "Sometimes, magic sounds a lot like tape" he would say.

    Eventually, he'd lower the cloth to reveal an origami swan made out of the bill.

    I'd ask him if the audience member who supplied the bill would complain and ask for an intact bill back, and he said yes, sometimes, and then we'd just give him the twenty.

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