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Jon Friedman

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Jon Friedman is a comedian, writer, and producer living in New York City. He founded Tremendous Rabbit Productions as a way to bring his many collaborative and original projects to the stage and screen. He is the creator/producer and host of the New York City cult hit show, The Rejection Show as well as the New York City Beard & Moustache Championships and many other popular live events.

Jon¹s writings have been featured in McSweeney¹s, Pindeldyboz, Paper Magazine, Cracked Magazine, and at his own humor page, Sincerely, Jon. He has performed and read at literary events and stand-up comedy venues throughout New York City.

In addition to producing and performing, Jon is the creator of the popular t-shirt website ElamenoTees.com, which offers t-shirts with off-beat humor such as ³I Like Bacon More Than You Think² and ³My Father Has A Mustache.² Elameno Tees were featured in Penthouse Magazine in February 2005.

As well as his ongoing development of Tremendous Rabbit Productions, Jon has written for television shows in development (and cancelled) by Comedy Central, animated humor segments for America's Test Kitchen on PBS, and as a creative consultant for Odd Todd cartoons on Comedy Central's Motherload. He was also the voice of an animated bear on ABC News (one grunt) as well as the voice of Johnny, the young man trying to buy a home (said "Hi") on ABC's Nightline.

Jon¹s works have been featured in the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, ABC's The View, The Early Show on CBS, Current TV, CBS Sunday Morning, K-Rock, NPR's The Brian Lehrer Show, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, The Leonard Lopate Show, Life¹s Work with Lisa Belkin on XM, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Daily News, The Village Voice, The New York Post, New York Metro, The Onion and many others.

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