Engimatic magician and comedian The Amazing Johnathan has died. He was 63.

John Edward Szeles had been the subject of a documentary which explored his strange life (pictured) and fondness for gross out trickery such as sucking on his own eyeball dangling from its socket, cutting his wrists or inserting a knife through his tongue. No for nothing was he known as the 'Freddy Krueger of comedy'