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The Passing Zone is an American comedy-juggling duo comprising Jon Wee and Owen Morse. Wee, originally from Minnesota, and Morse, a California native, met at a juggling convention in northern California in 1986 and decided two years later to team up. Since then, the Passing Zone has won 18 gold medals from the International Jugglers' Association (IJA) and holds five Guinness World Records. The Passing Zone was one of ten finalists out of hundreds of acts to perform during the debut season of NBC's ''America's Got Talent'' where, despite finishing as "the highest rated comedy act," Wee and Morse "lost one million dollars to an 11-year-old." They have entertained as part of the Royal Variety Performance for England's Prince Charles—sharing the bill with Tony Bennett and the cast of ''Riverdance'', among others—and also have been "guest performers" at the White House.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Passing Zone: Their Story (official site) )〕 The Passing Zone performs regularly for some of the top corporations in the United States while "inspiring groups to be better teams."〔 ==Biography== Jonathan Wee is one of three children of David and Karen Wee and was raised in Northfield, Minnesota. A performer since age 14, Wee preferred to juggle with partners. He performed with two childhood friends, calling themselves Three of Clubs, and worked the Minnesota Renaissance Fair. Wee admits that they "were really pretty bad," although in the end he figures that fair officials "thought, 'we'll let them in. Owen Morse, of Tustin, California, began performing in high school, crafted a 15-minute-long, sports-themed routine set to music, and eventually earned work through an agency in Hollywood, playing the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach while in high school and working at Disneyland while in college. A mutual friend introduced Wee and Morse at a jugglers' convention in San Jose, California, and they spent the next year corresponding regularly. The two met again at the IJA convention in Akron, Ohio, and decided to pair up in 1988〔 for the Teams Championships in Denver, Colorado, where they took the silver medal only "two weeks after their first performance together." The following year, they took the gold.〔 Wee elected to move to southern California after he graduated from Luther College that spring. Morse graduated one year later from University of California, Irvine.〔 By the end of 2006, Morse was living in Tustin with his wife and their two daughters while Wee lived in Hermosa Beach with his wife and their son and daughter.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Passing Zone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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