{"id":2445245,"date":"2019-06-12T12:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=847381"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:35:25","slug":"see-the-amazing-johnathan-documentary-question-magicians-illness-in-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-the-amazing-johnathan-documentary-question-magicians-illness-in-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"See \u2018The Amazing Johnathan Documentary\u2019 Question Magician\u2019s Illness in Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/the-amazing-johnathan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Magician and comedian the Amazing Johnathan, whose standup special was a Comedy Central staple in the Nineties, announced he was retiring in 2014 due to a heart condition. At the show, he had a year to live but was still doing a limited number of gigs as recently as last year. The film will screen in select fingers and hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\">Hulu<\/a> on August 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The new Hulu film, <em>The Amazing Johnathan Documentary<\/em>, follows him both through his struggles and the acrimony he feels when people doubt whether or not he really had a debilitating condition. A trailer for the film opens with someone speaking in voiceover never to trust a magician and another shot of filmmaker Ben Berman reminding the comic, whose real name is John Szeles, that he wanted to \u201cstick to the truth.\u201d Szeles is taken aback by this.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the trailer show footage of Szeles in the Eighties and Nineties, as well as his heartbreaking \u201cfinal show\u201d in which he tells people he\u2019s dying. \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, Eric Andre and Judy Gold all provide commentary. Through it all, people wonder whether or not it\u2019s a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you even asking me that?\u201d Szeles asks in one uncomfortable scene. \u201cAre you disappointed that I\u2019m not dying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/amazing-johnathan-documentary-trailer-847381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magician and comedian the Amazing Johnathan, whose standup special was a Comedy Central staple in the Nineties, announced he was retiring in 2014 due to a heart condition. At the show, he had a year to live but was still doing a limited number of gigs as recently as last year. The film will screen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 20:02:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}