John Paragon

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Dixon Paragon born 9 December 1954 is an American actor writer and director He was born in Anchorage Alaska on an Army base He grew up and attended schools in Fort Collins Colorado Paragon is probably best known for his work on childrens show Peewees Playhouse where he played Jambi the Genie and voiced Pterri the Pterodactyl In addition to writing many of the regular season episodes of Playhouse Paragon also cowrote with Paul Reubens the acclaimed Peewees Playhouse Christmas Special in 1988 for which they were nominated an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Childrens Special Some of Paragons other memorable roles include Cedric one half of the gay couple Bob and Cedric on the television series Seinfeld the title character in the childrens movie The Frog Prince the sex shop salesman in the cult favorite Eating Raoul and the owner of a Stripogram business in the 1986 film Echo Park Paragon got his start in the Los Angelesbased improvisation group The Groundlings alongside Reubens and Phil Hartman He also collaborated with fellow Groundling Cassandra Peterson on numerous Elvira projects including the recurring role of The Breather an annoying caller for her first television series on KHJTVLos Angeles In recent years Paragon has worked with Walt Disney Imagineering on ways to incorporate improvisational performance into attractions at Disney parks In this capacity he performed as the keeper of Lucky the Dinosaur during the test runs of the animatronic figure Paragon returned to his performance as Jambi the Genie in the Broadway outing of the new Peewee Herman stage show that began performances 26 October 2010 at the Stephen Sondheim Theater Description above from the Wikipedia article John Paragon licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia