Flamingo

3555 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Price: $46.50 (Balcony seating), $57.50 (Main floor seating)
Price Note: May not include all taxes and fees.
Payment Options: AMEX, VISA, MASTERCARD, CASH
Show Times: 10 p.m. Friday - Wednesday
Show Dates: Now through Dec. 17, 2003
Dark: Thursday
Reservations: Reservations Suggested
Age Restrictions: Must be 18 years of age or older

A large screen in the Flamingo's showroom is playing a selection of Hollywood's funniest movie clips.

These screen gems include Jim Carrey lighting a fart in "Dumb and Dumber," Ben Stiller catching his privates in his zipper in "There's Something About Mary" and John Candy resting his hands between Steve Martin's "pillows" in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."

Courtesy of The Amazing Johnathan, these crude scenes perfectly set the tone for the macabre comic magician's show.

It's also the only part where common decency emerges somewhat unscathed.

A self-professed "freak," that term doesn't even begin to describe The Amazing Johnathan's disturbed outlook.

Johnathan begins the stunts by calling out his assistant Psychic Tanya, a ditzy blonde with a hyena's laugh. She's forgotten the blindfold, so Johnathan makes due by "stapling" playing cards to her eyes and duct taping a tablecloth over her head.

Over the course of the show, Tanya is humiliated, bowled over (literally) and knocked out by a falling speaker. One schlub chosen from the audience has the misfortune of aiding Johnathan onstage, having a $20 bill ripped in half and joining him in a feast of Drano and Windex, after which the two foamed at the mouth.

The participation bit is funny, but over long. After Johnathan hands his subject a video recorder, he ushers him "outside" where the unsuspecting Joe is beaten by a gang of hoodlums.

Still, it's a thumb at convention.

Johnathan's show is a success not in spite of its material, but because of it. There's no other show in town that invites you to throw all niceties to the side. It's a refreshing change of pace that will have you rolling in your seat. As long as you don't go into shock from all the obscenities.

Las Vegas show, after golf.

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