Jon L. Hausman
Jon Hausman has worked at a Nuclear Laboratory for the last 20 years, and has been doing Stand-Up comedy for the last 3 of them. He spent the first 17 years gathering material.
Jon survived the Albany (NY) public school system, including Wm. S. Hackett Jr. High School and Albany High School, both of which are prominently listed among New York State's WORST schools, so honored for their low graduation rates, rampant violence, and a virtual epidemic of teenage pregnancies.
He earned a B. Sci (cum laude) in Chemistry from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. All this has been a mistake, as he really wanted to attend Hudson Valley Community College after high school and study Auto Mechanics with his friends, but Union offered a scholarship and his mother said he had to take it for reasons that to this day make no sense.
He married his high-school sweetheart in 1982, and she has followed him through Graduate School, the Nuclear Lab, and most everywhere else he goes. Realizing that he will not get rich through Science or Engineering, she is gambling that the Stand-Up thing will pay off someday. Silly girl.
Jon regularly emcees at The Funny Farm in Gloversville. He likes it because the food there is excellent; the headline acts like him because he gets their Intros. right and he manages to get laughs during warm-up so the crowd is "ready".
Jon is billed as "The Funniest Engineer On The East Coast". He was formerly known as "The Greatest Jewish Welterweight in Albany, NY", until his weight gain out of that class and the emergence of a second Jewish welterweight in the Albany area forced him to look for another moniker.
Jon Hausman can be thought of as "The John McCain of Comedy", although he AND Senator McCain would prefer that he not be called that. Nevertheless, he IS an older white guy that no one wants to listen to, so there are a few similarities. Mr. McCain has better hair, by virtue of having hair.
Jon Hausman was held captive by the Albany Public School System in questionable inner-city schools, which in many ways is similar to John McCain being held captive by the North Vietnamese in a prison camp, except that the cafeteria food at Albany High was worse. On the other hand, at least the captives at Albany High never had to put up with a publicity stunt visit from Jane Fonda like the tortured souls in the Vietnamese POW camps. OK - so we ducked THAT one.