Jim Florentine Biography

In July 2001 Jim Florentine released Terrorizing Telemarketers Volume 1. After numerous plays on the Howard Stern Radio Show his CD ranking on Amazon.com went from 282363 to number 2. The only artist ahead of him was the Backstreet Boys. Later that week his CD came in at on the Internet Billboard charts. After the release of Terrorizing Telemarketers Volume 2 in late 2001 Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla took a liking to his prank calls and hired him for a show to debut in June 2002 on Comedy Central called Crank Yankers. Jim voiced Special Ed a mentally retarded 16-year-old and Bobby Fletcher a rude and insulting man and Ed's older cousin. After season 1 Eminem took a liking to Jim's characters and flew him out to his Detroit studio to do prank calls together for the upcoming season of Crank Yankers. The following year in 2004 Eminem and Jim did a bit together on the MTV Music awards show where Eminem beat up Special Ed. Crank Yankers lasted 3 seasons on Comedy Central. The show moved over to MTV2 in 2006 for one season. Jim's Special Ed character that he created is still played at various Sporting Events at stadiums across the USA.

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