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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