1. James Bernard Florentine was born on August 18,1964 and is an American comedian, actor, author, and television personality.
30 Facts About Jim Florentine
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Jim Florentine 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.
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Jim Florentine 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.
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Jim Florentine was born on August 18,1964, in Brooklyn to a large Catholic family.
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Jim Florentine has six brothers and sisters and launched his career in New York City comedy clubs.
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Jim Florentine came from a large Catholic family and was one of the seven children who attended the Catholic school, St Ambrose.
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Jim Florentine has stated in various interviews and in his stand-up act that he disliked his religious upbringing.
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Jim 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.
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Jim Florentine's 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.
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Jim Florentine has stated his love of hard rock music set him on a straight path in life.
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Jim Florentine became a DJ on WCNJ, his college radio station in Hazlet, New Jersey, in the 1980s.
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Jim Florentine was inspired to do stand-up comedy after seeing Andrew Dice Clay for the first time on a Rodney Dangerfield comedy special.
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On July 28,2008, Quivers announced on the radio show that she and Jim Florentine had ended their relationship, the breakup was amicable, Jim Florentine was "genuine and honest," and that he was the one who initiated the breakup.
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Later that week, Jim Florentine's CD came in at No 17 on the Internet Billboard charts.
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Jim Florentine played Special Ed, a developmentally disabled teenager, and Bobby Fletcher, a despicable, alcoholic slob who is the older cousin of Ed.
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Jim Florentine co-hosted the show with fellow comedian Don Jamieson and rock radio broadcaster Eddie Trunk.
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Jim Florentine voiced the redneck radio host Bobbie Ray in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
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The CDs feature a series of recorded telephone conversations, often with Jim Florentine receiving calls from telemarketers, wherein he turns the tables on often aggressive salespeople by being deliberately difficult and creating awkward situations.
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Jim Florentine appeared on The Late Late Show Craig Kilborn.
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In 2007, Jim Florentine appeared on the last episode of The Apprentice in season 4 doing his edgy stand-up comedy at a conservative charity event.
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Jim Florentine asked Trump's partner George if he wears a diaper.
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Later in 2010, Jim Florentine appeared in the feature film A Little Help as Brian.
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In 2011, Jim Florentine launched his weekly podcast called Comedy, Metal, Midgets.
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On October 25,2011, Jim Florentine released his stand-up CD on Metal Blade Records called Cringe N Purge.
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In June 2012, Jim Florentine hosted the OMA Awards for MTV, which aired worldwide.
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Jim Florentine opened for the band Metallica at the Orionfest festival which attracted over 50,000 fans.
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On September 4,2012, Jim Florentine released his second CD on Metal Blade Records called Awful Jokes From My First Comedy Notebook.
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Jim Florentine is only the third comedian ever to have two CDs land in the top 10 in the same year.
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The concept for this CD was that Jim Florentine stumbled across his first comedy notebooks from when he started doing comedy back in the early 1990s.
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Jim Florentine was on Californication, Girls, and Inside Amy Schumer.