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Jonathan Winters. Today we lost a guy who lived the life of a true comic. A few years back, there was an article in a Santa Barbara paper that local business owners were getting annoyed, because to occupy his time in his eighties, Jonathan was making prank calls to their businesses. He didn’t record them; he didn’t call back and tell them it was him. He did it JUST FOR THE JOY OF DOING IT; nothing else. The only reason we even know about this is that when enough business owners recognized his voice (and prank skills?) they complained, and the story was published in the paper of them asking him to stop because they were getting tired of it. But he wasn’t getting tired of it. He lived for moment right to the end. Their annoyance made this sweet man’s pranks all the more sweet.

Attached is his final interview, conducted a few months back by his friend and fellow genius improviser Rick Overton.

Jonathan was scheduled to join us on Set List in Santa Barbara in February.  He was up for it until about a week before the show, when he hurt his ankle and wasn’t able to join us.  We missed him that night but that is nothing compared to now.  We look forward to his prank calls from the afterlife.