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Line 31: Melendez grew up in [[Massapequa, New York]], on [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]] and attended [[Plainedge High School]].<ref name=AOLBio/><ref>[http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/famous/controversial.html Controversial personalities who stutter.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418002558/http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/famous/controversial.html |date=2008-04-18 }} Minnesota State University, 1998-10-12. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.</ref><ref name="NSA">[http://www.nsastutter.org/material/index.php?matid=282 John Melendez.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063412/http://www.nsastutter.org/material/index.php?matid=282 |date=2016-03-04 }} National Stuttering Association. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.</ref> Melendez was born to a [[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] father and a [[Denmark|Danish]] mother. According to Melendez, he began to [[stutter]] when he was in the second grade as a result of psychological mistreatment from his father after he witnessed an argument between his parents.<ref name="SF">{{cite web|url=http://Stressfactory.com|title=Comics|access-date=2020-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003011025/https://www.stressfactory.com/|archive-date=2019-10-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> He attended [[Plainedge]] High School, where he was picked on by the neighborhood bullies because of his stuttering.<ref name="SF"/> In 1988, Melendez attended [[New York University]]'s film school and belonged to a band called "Rock Slide", and graduated from Nassau Community College. (In 2023 ==Career== Line 65: In August 2020, Melendez sued the [[Liberty Media]]-majority-owned satellite and online radio platform [[Sirius XM]] Holdings Inc. for "using his name, likeness, and voice without permission" on its [[Howard 100 and Howard 101|two channels]] dedicated to ''The Howard Stern Show'' and related content.<ref name="reuters-2020">{{cite news|first=Jonathan |last=Stempel |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sirius-xm-holdgs-stuttering-john/stuttering-john-of-howard-stern-fame-sues-sirius-xm-idUSKCN25F29B |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status= |title='Stuttering John,' of Howard Stern fame, sues Sirius XM |work=[[Reuters]]|date=19 August 2020|access-date=2 May 2023}}</ref> Filed in the Manhattan-based [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York|U.S. district court]], the complaint sought unspecified damages for Sirius XM's airing of old recordings of Melendez from his time on ''The Howard Stern Show'', with Melendez claiming such action violated California law and his [[right of publicity]] while further estimating that more than 13,000 hours of the then-syndicated morning radio show feature his voice, name and identity which Sirius XM benefits from by selling advertising without compensating him.<ref name="reuters-2020" /> Melendez's lawsuit was dismissed in June 2021 by the U.S. District Judge [[Paul A. Crotty]] who ruled that U.S. federal copyright law preempted Melendez's claims that Sirius XM violated his publicity rights under California law.<ref name="reuters-2021">{{cite news|first=Jonathan |last=Stempel |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/stuttering-john-from-howard-stern-show-loses-lawsuit-against-sirius-xm-1.5485581 |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status= |title='Stuttering John' from Howard Stern show loses lawsuit against Sirius XM |agency=[[Reuters]] |publisher=[[CTV News]] |date=25 June 2021 |access-date=2 May 2023}}</ref> The judge's written ruling further stated that Melendez did not show he was injured or that Sirius XM illegally used him to promote its services, adding that "the commercial advantage Sirius XM gains from playing ''The Howard Stern Show'' archives and running the advertisements flows from the rebroadcasting of the copyrightable sound recordings themselves, not from Melendez's identity”.<ref name="reuters-2021" /> Melendez's lawyer commented that the judge “adopted a unique analytic framework which we believe is inconsistent with prevailing law" while announcing the intention to appeal the ruling.<ref name="reuters-2021" /> The appeal was dismissed by a three-judge panel in October 2022.<ref name="appeal">{{cite news|first=Matthew |last=Keys |url=https://thedesk.net/2022/10/stuttering-john-melendez-lawsuit-howard-stern-siriusxm/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status= |title=Howard Stern sidekick loses appeal in lawsuit against SiriusXM |agency=TheDesk.net |date=5 October 2022 |access-date=2 May 2023}}</ref> John is well known now for his apperances on the Uncle Rico Show ! Shuli Egar and Bob Levy and Mike Morse host. ===2004–2014: Jay Leno's shows=== Line 94: ==Personal life== After moving to California in 2004 to work on ''The Tonight Show'', Melendez lived in [[Calabasas, California|Calabasas]] with his wife Suzanna Keller and their three children. The couple filed for separation in October 2011 and divorced in 2012. ==Discography== | |||