Jim Florentine  

November 4, 2009

Wednesday 8:00pm

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Jim Florentine is an American comedian best known for his characters "Special Ed" and "Bobby Fletcher" created for a series of prank phone calls featured on the Comedy Central television show “Crank Yankers.” He is also a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and a co-host of “Miserable Men” on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Howard 101 with the Reverend Bob Levy and Shuli. He also had a small role as the redneck radio host Bobbie Ray in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Florentine has a series of prank call CDs known as Terrorizing Telemarketers Volumes 1-4. The CDs feature a series of recorded telephone conversations, often with Florentine receiving calls from telemarketers, wherein he turns the tables on often aggressive salespeople by being deliberately difficult and creating awkward situations.