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Josh Blue

ジョシュ・ブルー　/　じょしゅ・ぶるー

American association football player

November 27, 1978 (age 47)　・　Cameroon, United States

association football player
humorist

My Take

What stays with me about Josh Blue is not the comedy trophy but the posture behind it. Being born in Cameroon, raised American, and living with cerebral palsy, he could have asked the world for sympathy. Instead he built a whole act out of owning his own body on his own terms, and won Last Comic Standing doing it. I find that quietly radical. Comedy that disarms its audience by refusing self-pity is the hardest kind to pull off, and the fact that he also chases sport tells me he simply refuses to be defined by limits. I respect performers who turn vulnerability into command, and he clearly does.

Overview

Josh Blue (born November 27, 1978) is an American comedian. He was voted the Last Comic Standing on NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing during its fourth season, which aired May–August 2006. Blue has cerebral palsy, and much of his self-deprecating humor is centered on this.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Josh Blue
Name (Japanese): ジョシュ・ブルー
Reading: じょしゅ・ぶるー
Born: November 27, 1978 (age 47)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Horse
Origin: Cameroon, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player / humorist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Como Park Senior High School
University: Evergreen State College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC

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