Jack Jersawitz
Jack Jersawitz (August 13, 1934 – December 6, 2012) was an American television host, mayoral candidate, and Marxist activist. Jersawitz was well known for hosting a Public-access TV show called Brainstorms, a current events talk show on People TV, featuring live telephone call segments that were often targeted by prank callers. In fact, there is little evidence that the majority of his callers were not all prank callers. He is known for getting flustered by such calls and referring to the perpetrators as "clowns" or "cretins". Whenever Jersawitz was confronted by prank callers for being The Penguin from Batman, he conveniently hung up, leading to widespread tongue-in-cheek speculation that he was in fact the Gotham villain. Personal life Jack Jersawitz was born on August 13, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. He lived on the west coast and in London, England, before settling in Atlanta, Georgia the early 1970s. Unlike his parents, who were Jewish, Jersawitz identified as an atheist. He earned his high school equivalency degree in 1997 and briefly studied the origins of jazz and film analysis at Georgia State through a program that offered free classes to senior citizens. He worked as a printer, handyman, and mechanic before