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    At Just for Laughs Chicago: Jon LaJoie

    Posted in Own This City by Jason Heidemann on June 20th, 2009 at 10:48 am

    I’ve been hyping musical comic Jon LaJoie for a while now but I admit I’d never seen the guy live before until last night and I was worried that the Internet sensation wouldn’t deliver. The Montreal comic has racked up YouTube hits with videos like “Everyday Normal Guy,” a rap song about a mundane dude—”I like the show Gilmore Girls, motherfuckers,”  he sings—”and 2 Girls One Cup song—some people like to kiss, some people like to hug…some people puke semidigested shit into each other’s mouths.” But like Weird Al, this kind of juvenile fodder seems best encapsulated within the three-minute video format.

    But I was happy that Thursday night’s show, “Live as Fuck,” proved me wrong.

    The show was a multimedia mix of stand-up, video and live music, augmented by LaJoie’s natural comic abilities. He started the show with his signature song “Everyday Normal Guy” and followed with a prerecorded PSA on not giving a fuck. LaJoie then took the mike and first apologized for feeling under the weather. “I’m sick. Never blow four homeless guys just because they ask you to,” he deadpanned before admitting that he was a total sellout who put the show together last minute at the insistence of his agent. “[He told me] If you do stand-up comedy we’ll get that priest to stop touching you in the bathing suit area.”

    LaJoie bolted through a half a dozen or so of his YouTube hits like “Too Fast,” a ditty devoted to premature ejaculation, and the stoner’s anthem “High as Fuck.” Hearing the songs sans video reminded me that LaJoie has an impressive attention to genre, be it gangster rap, ’90s cock rock, self-absorbed singer-songwriter anthems and so forth. But it was his guitar-driven rendition of “Ghostbusters”—”I ain’t afraid of no cocksucking ghost!”—that was the evening highlight for me. It was dumb and just plain funny as fuck. The evening’s one lowlight was its finale. LaJoie ended with “Show Me Your Genitals,” arguably among his most popular but a lyrical weak spot for such a talented wordsmith, and it rarely works when a performer tries to re-create a video live as LaJoie attempted to do here. But that was a single low. Otherwise I left the show high as fuck—metaphorically speaking.

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    1. Posted by Charlie on June 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm

      “Too Fast” is hilarious. Amazing.

      Sadly though there is a dark side to the comedy… most men don’t last long enough and desperately wish they could. I counted myself in that boat for years until I learned what really causes you to go too fast - and being able to last longer has changed my relationship and my life for the better, big time.

      If you’re curious, and want to know how to last longer, you can get more tips here:
      http://www.TheEnduranceReport.com

    Care to share? tonyblog@timeoutny.com


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