- He never tires of the sound of his own voice.
- He sends flowers just to be mean.
- He cannot act as Press Secretary because he gets hostile.
- He is a graduate of Harvard and Yale and is a Fulbright Scholar, therefor he does not leer. He scored a 760 on the verbal portion of his SAT’s, so he knows what “polyglot” means. He can quote Teddy Roosevelt.
- He doesn’t know the difference between a koala bear and a panda bear.
- He worked as floor manager for the House Minority Whip, Chief of Staff to Congressman Earl Brennan, and advisor to Senator Hoynes before joining the Bartlet campaign after a speech at the VFW hall in Nashua, NH. He worked as Senior Political Advisor during the campaign. If Hoynes would’ve listened to him, Hoynes would’ve become President.
- Nicknames: “Mi Amor” (CJ), “Deputy Downer” (Donna), “White-Collar Crime Boy” (Donna), “Alexis de Tocqueville” (Joey)
- He is 38 as of the Pilot
- His watch sucks in 4 time zones.
- He put on talent shows as a kid and wanted to be a ballerina when he was 4.
- He’s never been on a movie set.
- Josh used to date Mandy Hampton during the campaign and he claims she stole money from him. They met at a seafood restaurant near the Democratic Leadership Conference; He couldn’t stop staring at her. A picture was taken of them that night, and Mandy coloured all over his face with marker before giving it to him. They broke up on July 9.
- He’s not married, though “Many have tried.”
- Girls like him in his tuxedo.
- He’s friends with Congressman Chris Wick and is largely responsible for getting him elected.
- He likes the Children’s book “The Little Red Lighthouse and the Big Grey Bridge”
- He sometimes plays basketball with the President and he enjoys golf, baseball, and football. In golf, he wants Donna to caddy for him and doesn’t think “real” golfers use carts. He’s a Mets fan.
- He received a $1189 silk smoking jacket and a $345 antique scrimshaw cigarette holder from Miss Sarah Wissenger on July 3, six days before his breakup with Mandy.
- His shower tile could use regrouting.
- When he suffers a disappointment at work, he ends up drunk at Donna’s apartment, yelling at her roommate’s cats. He cannot hold his liquor.
- He likes his hamburgers beyond burt, so if you dropped it, it would break.
- He has a thing for Joey Lucas (but he denies it) and wears a special suit when she comes to town – it’s a nice suit, which Donna has dubbed his “Joey Lucas Suit”
- He gave Donna Heinrich Beckengruber’s “The Art and Artistry of Alpine Skiing” with a sweet note inside. He believes she is of immense value to him but of no value to Eastern Europe.
- Josh and Sam were friends before the campaign and Josh got Sam to leave his law firm – which Josh could never remember the name of.
- He’s got a really bad poker face.
- His grandfather is a survivor of Birkenau.
- His older sister died in a fire when he was a child. She was babysitting him and there was a fire caused by a popcorn maker. He ran out of the house to safety, leaving him with a lot of survivor guilt. Joanie (his sister) loved music, especially Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and wanted to be a conductor.
- His father, Noah Lyman, was an old friend of Leo McGarry and knew Jeff Breckinridge because they both worked at Debevois and Plimpton (Noah was a partner there). He died the night of the Illinois Primary of a pulmonary embalism during his chemotherapy. He liked that his son was in politics but would’ve liked grandchildren more. He liked Josh working for Bartlet and starting to do well. He was very proud of his son. He never took it easy, working 13-hour days, cleaning the gutters, and admonishing squirrels.
- Josh was shot at Rosslyn and was in surgery 14 hours to repair his collapsed lung. The insurance company said he owed them a LOT of money because GW was out of network. A bullet collapsed his lung and oxygen stopped flowing to his brain, but he was supposed to call up the 24-hour-customer-care service line.
- He became fascinated with theoretical physics and being an “outdoorsman”, though he’s never climbed a tree in his life and cannot start a fire without burning down the White House.
- He didn’t want to due the KKK because he didn’t want it to be like he slipped in their driveway.
- He used to see a therapist named Stanley but stopped after Bartlet was elected because he thought it might make people nervous. IN december, 2001, he saw Dr. Stanley Keyworth from ATVA because he had developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Rosslyn. His episodes were triggered by music, which his mind equated with sirens. He smashed a window in his apartment with his hand.
- He used to be Toby’s wingman.
- He was a pallbearer at Mrs. Landingham’s funeral.
- His sophomore year, he and his friends got a fish registered for 18 credits and she made Dean’s List. They made a Dan’s List of another sort.
- He’s from Connecticut and automatically goes there when going “home” for the holidays, even though his mother relocated to Florida in early 2001.
- He screwed up the Big Tobacco case by sending out an incendiary brief.
- His mother has prepared an emergency box for him, which he keeps in the trunk of his car. Included in it is a blanket, food, water, a radio, and the baseball cap that Joe Petone signed for him on his tenth birthday.
- He insists on having an actual bow tie, not one that’s pre-tied, so that at the end of the evening, he can rip off the bow tie like Tony Bennett. He’s actually taller than Tony Bennett.
- He has a fan site, lemonlyman.com. he decided to post on it and was surprised at the insanity that ensued thanks to their dictatorial leader. If CJ finds out Josh has posted there, she’s gonna ram a motherboard so far up his ass!
- He was asked to meet with Amy Gardner of the WLC about language in the Vienna Treaty.
- Amy dated his roommate, Chris Wick, in college.
- He’s a straight-shooter, so he had to go in under the cover of business.
- “Guys like him” should be hit in the head.
- He wanted to be a ballerina when he was four because he liked the word. He’s never been to the ballet.
- He studied hard at school because he wanted to work in politics and his IQ doesn’t break the bank, so it’s like he missed a year because he doesn’t know what to do when you think you like someone.
- He started dating Amy Gardner after she broke up with John Tandy.
- The second date is when the wheels start to come off the wagon for him.
- He recommended the censure because he was “inside” on the thing with Leo.
- He’s friend with Billy Molina and would’ve been protesting with him if he worked anywhere else.
- He wanted to go to Tahiti with Amy but had to cancel the trip because of a meeting.
- He ended up sort of being responsible for Amy getting fired.