THE FIRST J.O.D.A teacher in the world

I think I might be the world’s first stand-up comedian whose wife forced his man start to be a stand-up comedian. A year ago, when we were driving home from our last relationship therapist appointment my wife stopped the car and said ”Jouko, you have only one chance to save our marriage. Because you love to talk so much, you have to begin stand-up comedy. I have booked you already on next week to our godson’s company’s party.” I performed there and loved it! And because Wife is always right, soon after I joined the first stand-up school in Helsinki. The following spring I was a ready stand-up comedian (fresh out of the bench)!

PÅRNÅ – a journey to erotica. The journey begins from childhood with Barbie dolls and finishes three decades later in Chicago in a stag party. There I experienced something special, I am still not sure did I like it, but anyway I was more rich with one more experience.

VIINA – a trip to alcohol. How the son of an absolutist family ends up in the murderer Markku’s wallet.

THE END – one day in the 60’s, I and my siblings were waiting with our grandma the end of the world.

PRIVATE SHOW – what happened when we got a guest from Japan who wanted to see something special.

Inspired by traditional stand-up, I invented stand-stop. It is a performance where the audience don’t need to laugh. There we stop for something important. Like a relationship with Dad. My first stand-stop show is FATHER; all that I never told you.

My second stand-stop show is a BOY – who wanted to be a tree. It is for schools, first- and second-graders. It is against bullying at school.

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In 2017, I took my daughter to a modeling course. A week later, I was called and asked if I was the Santa-looking man. They asked if I could fly to Lapland next Monday, where the French would shoot a Christmas campaign. When I arrived at the venue and opened the taxi door, about a dozen beautiful girls ran towards me shouting ”Hipster Santa we love you!” Nina Ricci had hired me for the Hipster Santa Claus to their Christmas campaign. I’ll never forget it. When I woke up the next morning, I was afraid that everything would have been a dream. That made me a paparazzi model in my old days.

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In 2014 I thought I was old and weak. But it was not true!

You are never too old to feel yourself young again. My adventure into my body started at the very last minute. I had already started to be part of our couch. I had always thought that the body’s job was just to get my head to the office and back. Five years ago, I started to believe that I had gotten older and that was why I could no longer do so much. I looked at my friend’s picture of me and saw how weak I looked inside the big white blouse. One evening my daughter asked if I would go to the gym with her. I was surprised how a 17-year-old daughter asked her 55-year-old father to be a training buddy; a request you cannot refuse. The last kick in my lazy ass was when in the gym a young personal trainer thought I was 70-years-old. I decided to show who is 70!

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