jonathan
Jonathan is Jack's assistant whom Jack hired after mistaking him for M. Night Shyamalan on a flight while on a sedative. Jonathan excessively admires Jack. Liz Lemon said Jack was a "bit of a stress eater" in "The Baby Show," Jonathan was very defensive of him, emotionally saying "he puts up with so much," presumably referring to Jack's overbearing mother. His obsessive admiration of Jack is coupled with a disdainful loathing of Liz Lemon, who he considers unworthy of Jack's attention. The show has yet to give Jonathan a last name. In "Secret Santa," it is mentioned that he has a sister who was once imprisoned in a North Korean jail, who Jack had released as a Christmas gift in keeping with his tradition of giving lavish un-toppable holiday gifts. In "Klaus and Greta", Jonathan reveals that he met his "birth parents" leading to the conclusion that he is likely adopted. And in Anna Howard Shaw Day he gleefully tells Jack that he once ran over an elderly woman in Arizona, and just kept driving. In Season 4 episode 11 titled "Winter Madness", it is discovered that Jonathan is Indian when Jack says, "Jonathan, why do I have an Indian assistant if..." Later, in the same season (episode 18 titled "Khonani"), this is reinforced when Jonathan says to janitor Khonani in Hindi, "Popes and princes count their Donaghy time in seconds!" In a later episode in season 5 (Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning), Jonathan gleefully reacted to news of a natural disaster in Pakistan, hopeful it took place in Jammu and Kashmir, referred to by him as "Indian Kashmir."
Jonathan is portrayed by Maulik Pancholy.
Jonathan is portrayed by Maulik Pancholy.