Last Comic Standing's Jon Reep

Jon Reep -- Metro Jethro himself -- the “Dodge Hemi Guy” and winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” was born in Hickory, NC (“home of the pig from ‘Green Acres’”) and graduated as a theatre and communications major from NC State University in 1997. He hasn’t stopped communicating since. A year after graduation, he hit the road as a full-time traveling comic and, according to him, that was the end of his life as a normal human being. In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at building an acting career. He landed roles as the pot-smoking farmer Raymus from the movie “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” and the dim-witted cop "Gerald Bob" on the ABC sitcom “Rodney.” You probably know him as the “Hemi guy” from Dodge Truck's popular ad campaign where he gained fame as the redheaded hillbilly in the Dodge Ram commercials who leaned out of a beat-up car and uttered the now famous line, "That thing gotta Hemi?” Reep was the winner of season five’s “Last Comic Standing” on NBC, and he has appeared on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and his own Comedy Central special. He performed at the Montreal "Just for Laughs" Festival in 1999 & 2004, in the Las Vegas Comedy Festival in 2005 and the Bonaroo Music & Arts Festival in 2006. He headlined during the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 2009, and modestly admits that his show is “filled with super clever writing." Recommended for mature audiences.