John Pinette

I talk about food, says actor/comedian John Pinette of his stand-up act. Not so much because I'm a big guy, I think it's the perfect common ground...everybody eats!

With a body like Pavarotti and a singing voice like Tiny Tim, John Pinette began his comedy career doing vocal caricatures of celebrities such as Robin Leach, and the Chipmunks singing Bon Jovi.

After graduating from the University of Lowell, Massachusetts, John became an accountant, achieving his family's version of the All-American Dream which soon became his All-American Nightmare. I denied my comic thing there for a while, he said. I always make people laugh, but my family said that's not the real world I had to put on a suit and tie and be serious. After six months of accounting, I was like a canned postal worker. I said 'Something's got to give.' Nick's Comedy Stop, one of Boston's best-known comedy clubs, had an . . .
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