Jim Florentine

Jim Florentine is a stand-up comedian, actor and author who grew up in a big Catholic family in central New Jersey. He got into comedy after seeing Andrew Dice Clay on a Rodney Dangerfield special, came up in the New York clubs, and later opened for Dice alongside Jim Norton.

His prank-call albums, starting with “Terrorizing Telemarketers” in 2001, caught on through “The Howard Stern Show” and led Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla to hire him for “Crank Yankers” (2002), where he voiced Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. From 2008 to 2015 he co-hosted VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show” with Don Jamieson and Eddie Trunk.

He has released a long run of albums and specials, including “Cringe & Purge” (2011), “I’m Your Savior” and “A Simple Man” (both 2016), “I Got the House” (2019), “Bite the Bullet” (2021) and “Can’t Please ’Em All” (2025), plus the 2018 book “Everybody Is Awful (Except You!).” TV credits include “Louie,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Girls” and “Californication.”