Joy Night @ Peace
On Saturday October 29th, we held our first "Joy Night @ Peace" featuring the comedy of John Jackshaw with special guest Martha Marks. Growing up, John says he was influenced by such greats as George Carlin, Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. In fact, growing up was quite an accomplishment for John, as he was born sixteen-weeks premature. "I was the first partial birth delivery," John says. After losing his sight John pursued a career in radio. His unconventional on-air antics set him apart from his peers, and served as a basis for his founding of a creative audio production company. However, taking his radical vision of the world, out of the studio and on to the stage has been the most energizing and rewarding experience of all.
John took it to the stage, for the first time, on New Year's Eve of 1995. Encouraging friends and audiences persuaded him to transform a pleasurable past time to a promising career. In very short order, word of his unique act spread. Now he is on his way, and is only one of two blind comedians in the country. Everything on the Third Rock, and beyond, is fair (or unfair) game for John's peculiar perspective. Whether it is a deranged serial hypnotist, Noah in jail, airline antagonistics, his unique slant on the news of the day, or outrageous ramblings about being blind, John finds humor in all of it.
Entertaining audiences from comedy clubs, to coffeehouses, to churches, John's perspective, on the adventures and obstacles of life, proves that laughter does strike twice in the same place.
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