Johnathan is not your father's magician - heck, he's not even that much of a magician. He's more of a one man comic army, mercilessly poking fun at magic acts, audience members, and himself with a gonzo, bizarre, raunchy, and often very amusing show.

Get there early enough and you'll get a pretty good idea of what you're in for as a roving camera broadcasts big-screen images of audience members with captions. Some of it is pretty juvenile (show the Caucasian man with the Asian wife and flash the words "Me so horny" underneath their picture, "hilarity" ensues) but this is not aiming to be any other than an ice breaker with highly questionable taste so leave your righteous indignation at the door.

Johnathan's on-stage buddy, "Psychic Tanya" is the epitome of every dumb-blonde magician's assistant. She makes the perfect dim-bulb foil to Johnathan's sarcastic know-it-all humor but unfortunately her role has been reduced since the last time I saw the show. It now mostly consists of her being dumb and/or slutty and him yelling at her. That's too bad because her zany good nature used to be the leavening bit of silliness this very crude show needs.

A warning… if you are seated near the stage and Psychic Tanya tries to grab you to assist Johnathan with a trick, say no unless you want to be on stage for a looooooong time and be made to look like a total idiot. This extended bit makes up the meat of the show and when I say extended, I mean extended - this guy was on stage for about an hour and what started with a "rip the $20 bill in half" trick progressed through card tricks, mind bending riddles, some gross-out stunts, and lots and lots of ridicule for both the guy on stage and the audience in general.

As mentioned, there isn't a lot of actual "magic" in The Amazing Johnathan's show. It's more of a comic deconstruction of magic acts, where he'll set up one of those tricks that you've seen a million times and then find some excuse to not actually finish it or twist it in a way you hadn't been expecting. In other words, you want to see cars disappear go see Lance Burton. You want a laugh, go see the Amazing Johnathan.

Another warning… this show is not for the feint of heart or easily offended. It contains very crude humor and language and although I'm not usually a fan of such juvenile antics, primarily because it's too easy, there's something about The Amazing Johnathan that makes me laugh. Perhaps the clips from comedic movies being show before the show were a clue… if you're a fan of films like "Dumb and Dumber" and "Tommy Boy" you're going to love this show.