JOKOY KENKOY!

 

I, at first, was reluctant about watching this Netflix video of a newly stand-up Fil-Am comedian named Jokoy because he was handsome with a face that looked too neat (he wore rugged clothes on stage—maong pants, tees with maong jackets?).

The venue was Seattle Theater, Seattle, Washington.

Anyway, if art is said to replicate life in a finer way, that’s where Jokoy’s brand of art makes the difference. He isn’t a classical artist like Shakespeare or Tolstoy, Rowling or Tolkien (all evokes serious tones or mild comedy). He’s a millennium Chaucer such that his jokes are downright brash and brutally honest. There are no butt showing, but he can be much more. You will wake up in your bed introspecting about the things he said. You think he’s cool because people kept laughing, and laughing for more—lets you listen as to what you want to hear, and then not knowing what hit you in the head, because as you go on, you realize that his jokes are not at all jokes. Talk about irony. He picks dirty subjects—taboo-- (creepy!) – boldly discuss it like no one else would like how a baby comes out of the vagina of a mother (how he portrayed his face like a vagina!). I am not sure if such show should be limited to mature audience, but many young people if they dare look at it closely will learn a great deal about LIFE.

 

Raised single-handedly by his mom, Jokoy is a single father, too, raising a teen-age son. Hurrah for a Fil-Am international comedy artist!