I love that routine, it was one of the first juggling videos on my computer when I first started. After knowing (part of) the story behind it I liked it even more.. A classic

I've been watching this for years and I STILL get a kick out of it.

oh,oh,Jason,too many drops:)

That was great! You're hilarious man! Thanks for keeping comedy alive!

I love his shows !

Excellent!

i so love this guy

Man, his face is the most priceless part of this entire routine. I can just feel the sincerity oozing forth. (btw Jason used to babysit my cousin, Paavo!)

what's with the evil laughter that emanates every so often?

great!!

I almost died from laughter. That was so incredibly funny. Seriously, LOL!!

very good 5 stars damm the best i have seen of jason ,performing

this is something i can appriciate.

Very nice! funny i was like LOL

that guy was AWESOMe!!!!!!!

shockingly hilarious. a truly great parody.

this gooood!!!! (:

In a previous IJA festival, Jason did not get the gold medal when he competed. This was presumably because he had gone over the time limit (8:15) and some of his hard/finale tricks did not count. He's been bitter about it ever since. That's why everyone started cracking up when they saw the timer.

the pointing the finger at the audience parody just kills me. i still can't get over how awesome this routine is. it's just as hilarious and brilliant as when i saw it in 2002. i remember the entire audience literally dying with laughter. i have never in my entire life heard an audience laugh that much, not even at stand-up comics' shows, and i go to a lot of stand up. totally brilliant, and to think the great juggling is interpolated into this craziness...

Everybody says he's so mean, I don't get it. He seems like such a swell happy guy.

amazing juggling moves u make it look easy

the greatest juggling routine of our time. it says so much. and people say this juggler lacks "soul"? all i see here is nothing but soul. the intellect it took to create this incredible parody must be colossal. the juggling is a pure celebration of the greatest of this art, and JG is giving us something new and meaningful here. this routine also shows the absurdity of combining seriously difficult moves with flippant cliche showmanship. they just don't blend. and jason is proving that here.

Haha, this was really energetic.

I am juggler from Cape Town ,who loves to juggle

el mejor sin duda

Agreed.

Hilarious

What is the name of that clown music playing in the background? That's not Rimsky-Korsakov, is it? Help me, someone, please!

hello, if you're still looking in here, mind answering me a question? What do you think of high level juggling in a performance environment - say for example cirque du soleil or other circuses that strive to be high quality entertainment?

Did not know that Jason could smile...

By the way - all that "egomaniac" talk is misdirected - his public character is for show no doubt - he's a damn nice chap, helping ppl out etc.

7:14 WTF that was hilarious ! =))

Do I see a bit of Adam Kariotis? HAHA LMAO

much more amusing than the really serious stuff

@JasonRGarfield Tells me he's one of the best out there that's for sure.

Jason Garfield looks like an angry bowling pin.

actually, i agree with you completely there.

what clubs do you use?

there is always a story

Hilarious....

He's mocking people who juggle like circus clowns. He's not so much into the superfluous entertainment that goes into a juggling act. He's more about standing in one place and doing things that most people can't do. Jason doesn't need to move around a lot to impress people. This routine is his way of showing people that he can do the dance-around-the-stage stuff too. He just prefers not to because it isn't his style. I just wish he'd have more respect for people who like this kind of act.

Oh the audience knows, you can bet on that.

weird dude. trippy as fuck. well done jason you ruined my mind

juggling should be a olympic event.

so... edit: the first place awards ceremony? because that's an awesome part of this vid. I'm pretty sure that this was maybe the 3rd possibly 1st juggling video that i ever saw. Ok so I've never gotten this part. There's some sort of story behind the performance and the timer that I never quite got. Anybody care to explain this? Or is there no story?

@Juggler1097 are you familiar with the term sarcasm? look at his 2000 competition routine

I think the anamosity towards Jason Garfield is due to his intimidating biceps and Lex Luthor like head.

@EveryPennyofIt A few seconds? I thought it was like 4 minutes. I did watch this video immedietly after watching his competition routine from 2000 and as soon as I saw the clock and him run out on stage actually smiling I looked outside and waited for the sun to eclipse and the apocolypse to begin lol.

@Mburnett27 4x6 if you are still wondering...

if thats the case, i love garfield =]

Very nice , but you do special to drop ???

I'm sorry, I think I saw this wrong. Did you just SMILE?

For someone who hates the circus, that was pretty... pretty.

does anyone else hear the creepy laughter?

@Mburnett27 it was a trick of the eye,it never hit the floor ;)

If I'm not mistaken (club) Juggling started as a sport. Look at the history of club swinging.

i think its pretty sad how he completely disregards that juggling actually Is performance and not a sport, at least it started that way. he is like a drummer dissing all drummers playing in bands in stead of trying to play is fast as they can.

maybe this is some kind of joke from his side, but it's actually funnier to watch this than his serius stuff

How did his arms not fall apart after all that?

this is very weird after having seen jason garfield's 2000 ija competition performance... you know, with all the smiling and stugg

Looks like one of the chatacters in "fraiser" crossed with bloke from x files(not molder)

...mmm boy, I'm taking performane notes! Let me tell you about it... haha

@getkristan He wants people to recognize that juggling isn't just performing like they do in the circus, I don't think he has as much of a problem with circus performers as he has a problem with people thinking that is all there is to juggling and not understanding the technical difficulties that go with it. If more people realized how difficult technical juggling was and didn't think you had to eat apples to do it he probably wouldn't come off like that.

@Jason- Know your place. I saw your teacher, Benji at a local Lion's Club in the town he was from when he was just starting out. I was just a kid but never forgot his talent. He inspired me to try juggling and at 10 or younger I could juggle three pins without a coach. Never forget where you came from or how you got your start. It makes for a lonely life down the road.

is the first drop done on purpose?

Silly goose...

:40 - :45 his face haha

which the baton things (sorry I'm sort of a noob) I thought he was hitting them back up into the air with the one in his hand...he is a total LAD

I would have to agree with you on some levels about what you just said there. There are some fairly popular three ball jugglers, one in particular Chris Bliss who does a three ball juggling routine to several songs cut into a pretty decent choreographed juggling routine. The only downside to it was that he was doing most of the same tricks over and over again. I've seen Jason's parody of Bliss's routine and all I have to say is this. Bliss may be a hack juggler but Jason is a jealous meathead.

its truely unfortunate that your performance here isnt genuine. you look like you are having....fun. imagine that.

Shoulder throws, you maybe know this by now.

Actually those were shoulder throws

the juggling evolution of dance?

Actually it's shoulder throws

I suppose its 4 balls behind the back

I'm confused. This routine is contrary to everything Jason believes in. How did he come up with something like this??

It's not too often we see you smiling! How odd.

listen I have made a living on cruise ship. I'm from a circus family should jugglers in circuses be bend too. Jason is great but a big head and not everybody thinks is the best like he does. kris Kremo is not an OLYMPIC JUGGLER but a great juggler none the less. Competition is fine but been an entertainer is more difficult

wtf ! on the stage is something normally from my opinion

I think some of you guys are missing the point of this routine...he is always going on about how he hates juggling being mixed with clowning and dissing other jugglers for doing simple stuff...and he has been accused of dissing it because he can't do it. It's an obvious parody by him of the guys who clown up their routines...I think basically he was giving a big "F U" to the competition?!

its (6x,4)(2,4x)(4,6x)(4x,2)

You mean "never cease to amaze me". What you said means he never does anything which amazes you. Really changes what you're trying to say.

jason is a acerbic juggling god, who created the world Juggling Fed. to focus on technique. the IJA (int. Jugglers Ass.) focus on performance. So it was a spoof on them and how gay it all is (timed competition etc). He's the exact opposite of that performance. wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

act cute. -.-

The whole routine is a parody on so-called ''jugglers'' whose act is more about showmanship and pandering to the audience than actual technical proficiency. You know, the guys who build a whole career around a 3-ball act and some lame gimmick (like a sequenced ''piano'') and end up getting cable specials for it. The humor here comes from Jason's portrayal of these happy-go-lucky charicatures and the over-the-top delivery that usually passes for talent on TV.

@ Jason- Know your place. I met your coach, Benji when I was just a kid at a Lion's Club where he is from when he was just starting his career. He inspired me to try juggling and at 10 or younger I could juggle three pins without a coach. Never forget where you came from or how you got your start. It will make for a lonely life down the road.

that is not Jason at all!!! He said on his Competitor Profile video, that his goal in his life is to promote juggling as a sport. not a circus parody. This video is obviously set up. I don't think that guy was Jason, he could do much better. Jason, if you're reading this - please reply.

Ever heard of playing a role? :)

Ok, for someone who wants juggling to be serious... he makes fun of a kind of juggling at a serious competition?

I found it, yeah - Gayaneh - Suite - Sabre Dance - thanks for the help guys, not! Incidentally, who cares whether juggling is mixed with clowning, isn't it about entertainment? I mean, then why put a performance together at all - you have to think about what the crowd wants as an entertainer - I mean, please, it's not rocket science or cancer research...it's JUGGLING.

Dare: try that with RPG rockets :)

@JasonRGarfield Hey, i'm your biggest fan and i like your juggling blablabla... But did you get thoso huge muscles from juggling? btw i beat you with 2 fingers in my nose

omg. "jugglinjosh" IT'S A PARODY. A FREAKIN JOKE! do you know what a joke is???

This is a confusing performance. From the many months of generally following his performances and interviews, he has expressed his disapproval of nearly of everything he about his 'show'. It's a bit odd and a lot to take in. His drops appear purposeful.

Did he miss a few balls on purpose? It seemed almost routine when he missed one.

cynta42, spare us the clichés about rocket science. you just need to chill out. people like you are never pleased. people criticize Garfield when he's serious, and now you knock him when he's hilariously brilliant. what the hell's wrong with you? if Jason can make fun of his own craft, doesn't that PROVE that he doesn't take juggling too seriously? he is capable of laughing at himself. learn from him. relax and chill. btw, juggling IS harder than rocket science, the kind JG demonstrates.

Great juggling. But i fail to see why this is in anyway funny?

was anyone else counting his mistakes?

it was a piss take.

who cares