Jonathan Mangum | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Actor, comedian |
Years active | 1993–present |
Spouse | Leah Stanko (m. 2001) |
Children | 2 |
Website | www |
Jonathan Mangum (born January 16, 1971) [1] is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member of the variety show The Wayne Brady Show and is the announcer for the game show Let's Make a Deal .
Mangum was born in Charleston, South Carolina and grew up in Mobile, Alabama. [2] After high school, he moved to Orlando and graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in psychology. [2] While in Orlando, Mangum started his comedy career at the SAK Comedy Lab alongside Wayne Brady, whom he would later collaborate with in Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza , The Wayne Brady Show and Let's Make a Deal . He moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to pursue a career in comedy. [2]
Mangum guest-starred in several episodes as the owner of a web-based start-up company on The Drew Carey Show . He has toured with Drew Carey's Improv All-Stars, establishing himself as an improv comedian and was also a regular cast member on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show . At the beginning of 2011, he and Brady made guest appearances in the British comedy series Fast and Loose , an improv show similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway? . He was a regular performer in Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza and performed in improvisational singing games, along with co-stars like Jeff B. Davis and Charles Esten. He is also one of the rotating guest performers on the revived CW Whose Line is it Anyway? which started in the summer of 2013.
Starting March 27, 2020, Mangum began live-streaming the show Ujokes, a comedy game show that features two professional comedians. Contestants play mini-games and compete for who has the funniest joke, which is decided by the audience. Along with the comedians, the audience can compete with their own jokes, and the winner from the audience is invited to join next week's stream for a segment. The show is live-streamed on Twitch and YouTube every Monday. [3]
Mangum made guest appearances on ER , Reno 911! , and Just Shoot Me! . In addition to his work in television and on stage, Mangum has also appeared in over 100 national American commercials. He has written for the Disney Channel and The N, as well as having twice written for director Ben Rock on the short films The Meeting and Conversations, which stars Curtis Armstrong. [2]
In 2012, Mangum starred in the ABC improv comedy series Trust Us with Your Life . [4]
In addition to his role on Let's Make A Deal, he has appeared on The Price is Right during the show's "Mash-Up Week" episodes which have aired annually since 2016.
Mangum is married to Leah Stanko, a casting director; the couple have two sons.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | The Upstairs Man | Darren | Short film |
1998 | Suicide, the Comedy | Carl | |
1999 | The Meeting | — | Writer |
2001 | Tea Time | Soldier | Short film |
2003 | The Devil Made Me Do It | The Angel | Short film |
2004 | Conversations | — | Short film Writer |
2006 | Round It Goes | Short film | |
The Enigma with a Stigma | Andy Thiele | ||
2007 | Manband the Movie | Joey | |
2007 | The Bucket List | Richard | [5] |
2008 | iCarly: iGo to Japan | Henri P'Twa | Three-part episode directed by Steve Hoefer turned into a film [6] |
2009 | Imagine That | Franklin's associate | [7] |
2014 | House at the End of the Drive | Robert | |
2016 | Monkey Up | Jim | |
2017 | Pup Star: Better 2Gether | Rover | Voice |
2018 | Pup Star: World Tour | Rover | Voice |
2018 | Smallfoot | Additional voices | Voice |
I'll Be Next Door for Christmas | Bradley | ||
2019 | A Patient Man | Tom Alexander | Producer |
2020 | WRZ: White Racist Zombies | Officer Chomp | Producer |
2021 | Jon Hamm | Country Club Connor | Short film |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Welcome Freshmen | Mr. X / Older Boy 1 | 2 episodes |
Clarissa Explains it All | Blind date | Episode: "Blind Date" | |
1994 | Fortune Hunter | Howard | Episode: "Red Alert" |
1994 | SeaQuest DSV | Covington | Episode: "The Sincerest Form of Flattery" |
1996 | Roseanne | Flip | Episode: "Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti " |
1996 | Goode Behavior | Wyatt | Episode: "Goode Grades" |
1996 | Married... with Children | Hal | Episode: "God Rest Ye Merry Bundymen" |
1998 | Clueless | Garrick | Episode: "Labor of Love" |
USA High | Marvin | Episode: "Raphael's Proposal" | |
1999 | Just Shoot Me! | Brian Toliver | Episode: "A Spy in the House of Me" |
2000 | ER | Ryan Bradford | Episode: "Homecoming" |
2000–2001 | Strip Mall | Josh MacIntosh | 22 episodes |
2001 | The Wayne Brady Show | Various | 1 episode Writer |
2002–2004 | The Drew Carey Show | Scott | 18 episodes |
2003 | Reno 911! | Yokel | Episode: "Dangle's Moving Day" |
2004 | Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show | Himself | 7 episodes |
Everyday Life | Zack | TV movie | |
2006 | Come On Over | Dr. Jonathan Silliness | Episode: "Brain Freeze" |
Home Purchasing Club | Jonathan | 1 episode Writer | |
The Brandon T. Jackson Show | — | Writer | |
2007 | The 1/2 Hour News Hour | Various | 5 episodes |
2007 | Pushing Daisies | Bernard Slaybeck | Episode: "Dummy" |
2008 | NCIS | Special Agent Daniel Keating | Episode: "Last Man Standing" |
2009– present | Let's Make a Deal | Himself / Announcer | Producer - 82 episodes |
2010 | The Sarah Silverman Program | Matt Markus | Episode: "A Slip Slope" |
2011 | Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza | Himself | 20 episodes |
2012 | Trust Us With Your Life | Himself | 6 episodes |
2013 | Doin' It Yourself | — | TV movie Writer |
2013–present | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Himself | Recurring |
2014 | The Bold and the Beautiful | Allen | 1 episode |
2015 | The BET Honors | — | Writer |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | — | Writer - 5 episodes | |
Open Carrie | — | Writer | |
2016 | Robots Are Hard | — | TV movie Producer Writer |
History of the World... For Now | Jim, Monty | 2 episodes | |
Milo Murphy's Law | Fernando | TV short Voice Episode: "The Doctor Zone Files/The Note" | |
2017 | Take It from the Top | Adam | TV movie |
2018 | GLOW | Priest / Judge Eric | Episode: "Every Potato Has a Receipt" |
2019 | Chicago Med | Delmer Brendl | Episode: "With a Brave Heart" |
Baskets | Tony | Episode: "Mrs. Baskets Goes to Sacrament" | |
20 Seconds to Live | Daniel | Episode: "Fish" | |
2019-2020 | Live from the 8th Dimension | Dee Fordoo / Dr. Long Island | 2 episodes |
2020-2021 | Ujokes | Host | 96 episodes Producer Writer - 1 episode |
2021 | Game of Talents | — | Producer |
TBA | Relatively Super | Professor Poindexter Powers | TV movie |
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