When you meet someone at a party and they say, oh, what do you do?

What do you say to them?

I try to avoid that conversation as much as possible, to be very honest with you.

I, like, if there's no way out of it, what I'll do is, like, I'll say I kind of like work in stand-up comedy.

But if I say, like, I'm in the circus or, like, I'm on social media,

then that becomes a whole extra, extra conversation. This is Jack Lepiars. We talked over

Zoom. And on the screen, you know, Jack's clean-shaven. He's in his 30s. It's got a bookshelf

behind him with a painting of a cat on it.

Very normal stuff. But the thing about Jack said he's got an alter ego. An alter ego that you

can only encounter in some pretty specific places and only after he has drawn on a very large mustache.

And then he becomes Jacques Ze Whippa.

Jacques Zippur is the character that I play when I am performing at Renaissance Fairs.

He is French because I didn't want to do an English accent

because I thought being French would be funnier.

And as Jacques Ewhipper, I crack whips and I sing songs.

And apparently that tickles some part of the world's lizard brain

that it has gotten me millions of views on social media.

And I'm sure as soon as you explain what your act is, people are like, do your act.

Like, show me, what do you mean? Like, do people try and get you to perform once they find out what you do?

They used to sometimes, like when I was in college.

Thankfully, like, I don't carry a whip around me.

And it's it's not something that most people have like just lying around for me to demonstrate

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