Джим Флорентин: Американский комик и его жизнь

American actor

James Bernard Florentine (born August 18, 1964) is an American comedian, actor, author, and television personality. He is best known for co hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on Crank Yankers, including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. He hosts The Jim Florentine Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and a podcast called Everybody Is Awful (Except You). He has released six albums of stand up comedy, two comedy specials, seven installments in the Terrorizing Telemarketers prank call compilation, and three installments of the Meet the Creeps hidden camera show. His 2018 book Everybody is Awful (Except You!) reached No. 1 on the Book Soup nonfiction chart.

He was born on August 18, 1964, in Brooklyn (New York) to a large Catholic family. He has six brothers and sisters and launched his career in New York City comedy clubs.

Florentine is a native of central New Jersey. He came from a large Catholic family and was one of the seven children who attended the Catholic school St Ambrose. He has stated in various interviews and in his stand up act that he disliked his religious upbringing. Florentine was interested in a musical career growing up because of his love for heavy metal music, but would often joke that he never had the talent to play an instrument. His family lived for several years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida when his father decided he wanted to set up a family run hot dog vending business. The business, however, proved unsuccessful, and the family moved back to New Jersey. In his late teens, Florentine had drug and alcohol problems and was in and out of rehab. He has stated his love of hard rock music set him on a straight path in life. Florentine became a DJ on WCNJ (now WCNM), his college radio station in Hazlet, New Jersey, in the 1980s. Jade, his girlfriend of six years, committed suicide in December 2006 while he was away performing on stage. In August 2007, while a guest on The Howard Stern Show, Jim Florentine asked co host Robin Quivers to go on a date with him during a show segment. Due to the attention this garnered, Quivers became tight lipped about the topic. On July 28, 2008, Quivers announced on the radio show that she and Florentine had ended their relationship, the breakup was amicable, Florentine was "genuine and honest," and that he was the one who initiated the breakup. In 2010, he had a child with lacrosse coach Samantha Warner. The two married in 2012 (her third, his first) and divorced in 2015 after he hired a private investigator who caught Warner having sex with a New Jersey police officer.