Jim Florentine

Jim Florentine
Florentine performing in August 2016.
Birth name	James Florentine
Born	Brooklyn, New York
Medium	Stand-up comedy, film, television
Nationality	American
Years active	1993–present
Genres	Stand-up comedy
Spouse	Samantha Warner (m. 2012-2015)
Children	1
Website	jimflorentine.com

James "Jim" Florentine is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and television personality. He is best known for co-hosting That Metal Show on VH1 Classic, as well as voicing several characters on Crank Yankers including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. He hosts a popular podcast called Comedy Metal Midgets since 2011 and has a radio show on Ozzys Boneyard channel on Sirius/XM. To date he has released 6 stand up CD's, 2 comedy specials, 6 prank call CD's called Terrorizing Telemarketers and 3 hidden camera dvd's called Meet The Creeps.

Currently, he is touring the country performing stand up comedy and is a single Dad raising his son Luke.

In 1993, he began his career in comedy clubs in New York City.

Florentine is a native of central New Jersey. He came from a large Catholic family and was one of seven children who attended the Catholic school St Ambrose. He has stated in various interviews and in his stand-up act that he disliked his religious upbringing. Florentine was interested in a musical career growing up because of his love for heavy metal music but would often joke that he never had the talent to play an instrument.

Florentine lived for several years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where his father wanted to set up a family-run hot dog vending business. The business, however, proved unsuccessful, and the family moved back to New Jersey. In his late teens, Florentine had drug and alcohol problems and was in and out of rehab. He has stated his love of hard rock music set him on a straight path in life. Florentine was later a DJ on his college radio station in Hazlet, New Jersey WCNJ. He later mentioned after seeing Andrew Dice Clay for the first time on a Rodney Dangerfield Comedy special, he wanted a career in stand-up comedy. He would often joke on air that marriage and kids were not for him. His girlfriend of six years committed suicide in December 2006. In August 2007, while a guest on the Howard Stern Show, Jim Florentine asked co-host Robin Quivers to go on a date with him during a show segment. Due to the attention this garnered, Quivers became tight-lipped about the topic. On July 28, 2008, Quivers announced on the radio show that she and Florentine had ended their relationship. She stated that the breakup was amicable, that Florentine was "genuine and honest," and that he was the one who initiated the breakup.