1. Jonathan Lajoie is a Canadian comedian, actor, rapper, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, musician and Internet celebrity.
19 Facts About Jon Lajoie
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Jon Lajoie gained fame mostly from his YouTube channel, posting comedic original songs and comedy skits.
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Jon Lajoie was born in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada and raised on the South Shore of Montreal.
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Jon Lajoie's father was Quebecois and his mother is English-Canadian, and he is the third of nine children.
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Jon Lajoie had formative experiences with music while attending a Pentecostal church and taking lessons.
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Jon Lajoie graduated from Dawson College on the Island of Montreal.
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Jon Lajoie completed a professional theatre program in 2002, after which he played in a band in the Montreal area for three years.
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From 2003 to 2017, Jon Lajoie portrayed an English-Canadian musician named Thomas Edison in Radio-Canada's French-language television series L'Auberge du chien noir.
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Jon Lajoie began his career as a comedy musician in 2006.
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Jon Lajoie has released four studio albums, the first two featuring comedy music.
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Jon Lajoie was cast in the FXX TV show The League as Taco MacArthur, a perpetually stoned and unemployed musician.
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Jon Lajoie filmed an episode of Comedy Central Presents on November 7,2009.
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Jon Lajoie was featured in the 2014 movie Let's Be Cops, as the boss of Damon Wayans, Jr.
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Jon Lajoie was featured in Quentin Dupieux's 2013 movie Wrong Cops as Officer Regan.
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Jon Lajoie has published several novelty songs that he has made available on websites such as Funny or Die and YouTube.
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The song "A New Beginning" was inspired by Jon Lajoie's experience watching his first horror movie Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, whose music video is a tribute to the film by way of a shot-for-shot remake of a particularly impactful scene.
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In 2018, Jon Lajoie followed up with a Wolfie's Just Fine EP titled Perfection, Nevada, which was produced by Bright Eyes' Mike Mogis.
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Jon Lajoie co-directed a music video for the single "Break My Back" featuring actor Xander Berkeley, as well as "Trying to Sleep" which pays homage to the film Tremors.
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In 2022, Jon Lajoie wrote three songs for the third episode of The Afterparty, with lyrical contributions by Jack Dolgen.