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rndyounghowze · 1 year

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What You Might Not Know About…

Jacques Ze Whipper

Jack Lepiarz or “Jaques Ze Whipper” or “Jack the Whipper” has been whipping it good for about fourteen years now. You may know him from his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he whipped a piece of straw from between Simon Cowell’s legs. You may also know him from his viral short videos where he sings parodies to songs like “All the Single Ladies” or the Animaniacs “Yakko’s World” song all while cracking the whip to keep time. However, there are some things about Jaques that you might not know about. We got to chat with him for a short while to bring you some trivia like…

Jack Comes From a Circus Family

“I grew up in the circus. We were with the Big Apple Circus until I was about 6 years old and then we did a bunch of Renaissance Faires when I was a kid. I have a weird parentage. My father is a circus performer (His father John Lepiarz currently “Mr. Fish” with the Super Scientific Circus) . My mother, now retired, was a college professor of anthropology with a doctorate in anthropology. She was very big on me getting a normal education so I kinda split time between normal school and the circus growing up.”

Jack Started On The Streets Of Boston

“I went to Emerson College. I’m like ‘I have all these circus skills, why don’t I just try to do some street performing and see how that goes?’ It went as well as you would expect for someone who’s not very polished to go, which is that it went alright, there was nothing catastrophic, but it wasn’t great work. But it helped me kind of polish the act. Then I was like ‘well alright now I have this slightly more polished act let me do Renaissance Faires’ so I started working at King Richard’s Faire when I was twenty.

Father’s Advice

“My father, who had done the Renaissance Faire circuit for years, said ‘well what makes a good, successful Ren Faire act is the character and the comedy. You don’t have to be the most talented circus performer as long as you can make people laugh and keep them engaged and a character is a great way to do that.’ One of the things that we wanted to do is to make the whips less threatening. We kind of played around with the idea of being a goofy character and that didn’t quite translate. We decided to try being the French character because, you know, everyone at the Ren Faire is English, Irish, Scottish. There aren’t a lot of French characters at the Renaissance Faire. We tried that for a couple of days and it went alright. Then the last day of my first weekend I drew on the mustache and it was like everything clicked. People understood this show is dumb and that it’s okay to laugh.”

Jaques Fans Are Why He’s On Tik Tok

“[In 2021] a couple of longtime fans of mine came to my show, recorded bits of the show, put up 30-40 second clips of the show on Tik Tok and the first one got like three hundred thousand views, the second one got two million views and the third one got two point two million views. I was like ‘oh okay apparently there is a demand for Jaques Ze Whipper in the world that I had never known’. So I started on Tik Tok and from there it’s kinda been like, as I find I have the brain space to expand I expand to a new social media and so from there I went to Instagram and from there I went to Facebook and then Youtube.”

Digital Show

“As my following has grown on social media there are these people who are like ‘come to the UK, come to Germany, come to Indonesia’. There’s no way for me right now to easily get to those places and even if I could get to those places the amount it would cost for me to get there would be prohibitive for a lot of people. So I said ‘why don’t I do this show where we can kinda do the best of my show and the secret show that I do with Ses Carny and by making it a digital show what we could do is get people from all over the world and that helps us keep the price point pretty low’. Ten bucks is still too expensive for some people that I’ve talked to but I think that it’s reachable for most people who are fans of mine. You could get four people to all pitch in $2.50 and just share one ticket. That’s fine.

My plan is to do a show like this every year around this time for as long as WBUR will have me. We did a walk through in the theatre this week and they said they’re fully on board for another show next year and the year beyond that so I think my plan is: once a year do a digital show like this and assuming the interest is still there bring in other performers and kind of make it ‘Jacque’s Circus Hour’ and use it as a way to profile some of my wonderful colleagues who I think are just as if not more talented than me who just for some reason or another haven’t gone viral yet”.

The Physical Toll

“A lot of people don’t understand quite how physical the show is and the amount of work that goes into making sure that my body is able to hold up under the stress of the show. The last couple of years I have been semi injured while performing and it’s been amazing how something as little as [spraining] my wrist in August of 2021 and the entire ‘21 season…there were certain tricks that I could not do without a lot of pain. Then this past season I tweaked something in my right shoulder just before the season started or early in the season and it never felt quite right until I had a chance to just rest it for a few weeks. (You can see this video where he sings a “Sound Of Silence” parody while remarking that his Physical Therapist would be mad because he wasn't cleared to whip with his right hand yet.) I think that’s the biggest thing. The show is an athletic performance even as I’m just up there just cracking whips and singing songs. It is a workout.”

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eevee-eclair · 3 years

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Bring Back What I Have Lost

Written by Eevee

Chapter 3

Random side note: Here’s chapter three, sorry for taking so long to post it

Things to look out for: Fighting, mind control, staple gun and banana used as a weapon, crying, hostage situation, sharp objects, threatening, (please tell me if I missed one)

Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 (you’re here)

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They ran to the side as Ferdin jumped at them and ran around. They came to a skidding halt as Yakko jumped out at them. Wakko ran to the door but Dot was there, blocking the exit. Her eyes held the same bright orange Yakko’s did.

“Leaving so soon?” she whined, walking closer. “You’ve only just arrived!”

Wakko stepped back and felt their stomach drop as they hit something solid. Looking up they came face to face with Yakko. He had on the same sickening smile when Wakko first arrived.

“What’s with the rush?” he asked, grabbing them by their shoulders roughly. “Stay a bit!”

Wakko tried to wiggle free. “N-no! I gotta save you guys! Let me go!” they cried.

Ferdin walked over and they had the same twisted smile Yakko and Dot had. “Listen to your siblings, Wakko.”

“Don’t fight it,” they all said, closing in on him.

Wakko shut their eyes just as the door to the water tower flew open. Looking up, they saw Dr. Scratchansniff along with Pinky and Brain. They all ran over immediately to save him.

“Get them,” Ferdin hissed. Yakko and Dot ran over to fight as she dragged Wakko away.

“Guys, help me!” they yelled, trying to get away.

Being the biggest target, Dot and Yakko went for Otto first so Brain and Pinky managed to slip past to save Wakko.

“Hellooooo doctor!” Yakko said, jumping at him. Dot managed to kick his feet out and they both worked on tying him up so he didn’t get away.

Brain held up a staple gun, aiming it at Ferdin’s head when they reached her. “I recommend you drop them at once,” he said calmly.

“And if I don’t?” she asked, narrowing her eyes.

Pinky stepped up. “Then we’ll make you,” he responded sternly. He drew his own weapon and aimed it. It was a banana.

Ferdin laughed. “You think a staple gun and a banana will stop me?!” she yelled.

Brain nodded. “That’s the idea, yes. Don’t forget, we know how you work and what your weaknesses are.” Pinky nodded, agreeing with him.

Wakko winced as Ferdin tighten their grip on them. “And I have the kid! Leave me alone, or you’ll be sorry,” she hissed, extending a large claw and pointing it at Wakko. It was very sharp.

Pinky started to shake. “Now, Brain?” he whispered.

Brain gritted his teeth. “No, she holds too much power over us,” he said back. “Lower your weapon, Pinky.” Both mice dropped their weapons and Ferdin smirked.

“You’re too soft,” he laughed. “Now I’m going to take over the world, and you won’t stop me!”

Pinky yelped as Yakko picked him up by his tail. “Hey Dot, ever wondered what rat tasted like?” he asked, poking Pinky’s belly.

“Hey! I’m a mouse, not a rat!” he yelled, crossing his arms.

Brain drew the staple gun again. “Put Pinky down or I’ll shoot!”

Dot picked him up. “Awww look at the little paws! I could just eat you up!” she cooed, showing off her pointed teeth. Since when did Dot have pointed teeth?!

“Guys, snap out of it! This isn’t you!” Wakko cried, still trying to pull away.

Yakko and Dot snapped their heads at them. They dropped the mice and walked over. “What makes you so sure of that?” Yakko hissed, his smile dropping.

Wakko was about to reply when Yakko and Dot’s eyes widened and they fell over, asleep. They looked down. “Guys…?” They made a strangled noise when someone grabbed them, running away.

“Apologies, Wakko, but we are in a very big hurry!” Brain said, dragging them and Pinky out of the tower. “Pinky, take Wakko! I’ll grab the doctor!”

Pinky nodded and took over dragging Wakko out. “Narf! You got it, Brain!”

Brain ran to the side and started to drag Otto out. Eventually, everyone was outside and jumping down. Brain had untied Otto so he could run too.

“Get back here!” Ferdin yelled. She had suddenly grown five more pairs of arms and was chasing after them like a spider.

Wakko ran faster and picked up Pinky and Brain. “Sorry, can’t hear you! Too busy running!” they cried.

They all turned a sharp corner and hid behind a wall. They held their breath as Ferdin zoomed by, looking for them. “When I find you, I’ll tear you limb from limb!”

Wakko fell to the ground, all the emotions catching up to them. They started to cry.

“Wakko, don’t cry, it’s gonna be alright!” Pinky told them, placing a small hand on their knee. “We’re alive! Smile!” Brain nodded.

Wakko looked up, tears flowing from their face. “B-but Yakko and Dot are still with him! They’re n-not safe!” they wailed.

Otto looked around, making sure Ferdin couldn’t hear them. “It will be okay! We will save them!” he said, crouching down. “But you gotta be quiet for right now, okay?”

They nodded and tried to stop crying while Brain looked for a safe way out. “If we run that way as fast as possible, we should be able to make it to the lab. Wakko, can you carry me and Pinky again?”

Wakko nodded and placed the mice on their shoulders, waiting for Brain’s signal.

“Now!” Brain yelled. Wakko and Otto ran as fast as their legs could carry them. They safely made it to the lab without being noticed by Ferdin.

Wakko ran them all inside before dropping the mice on a nearby table. Now that they were safe, they sank to the floor and started to cry.

No one had anything to say so they all sat in silence, hoping the other Waner siblings were safe.

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