Jon Favreau, Yes He Did!
If you are like me, the person you think of when you hear that name is not the Valedictorian of the College of the Holy Cross for the class of 2003. It’s the dude from Swingers, it’s the big dude from The Replacements, Gutter from PCU (and for the lady’s, he’s the Tennis Player’s Agent in Wimbeldon.)
The thing is, he shares the name with the Speech Writer for Obama. I don’t care what your politics are, you have to admit Obama is a charismatic man. Part of it is Obama’s delivery, but most of it is what is said and how he’s saying it. That credit goes to Mr. Favreau (the speechwriter not the actor.)
With all this said I decided I wanted to look into this a little more. Being the age of the internet, it wouldn’t take much effort. His story impressed me, as it should, it impressed Obama. The most interesting thing of his life however, I could only find on Wikipedia. Here is the link:
(Please copy everything below including the word speechwriter in parenthesis into the web browser.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)
I’m not sure when they are going to update this, so I am going to cut and paste the most intriguing part to me right here:
“Favreau is related to the actor and director. Jon Favreau.[3] They were conjoined twins who were seperated in 1991 in large part due to the creation of ice cream.”
They are related! Not only that, but they have the exact same name, because they were the exact same person! Now they are each half a person. And I have to tell you, if I was going to demand that I be separated from my Siamese brother, it would be because of ice cream.
It has to be true, it’s on Wikipedia. Talk about Change…
