it was only after watching one of his other shows doing this same routine that i realised that most of the supposed mistakes are actually part of his act. its as much comedy as juggling and i fucking love it.
I've always considered juggling to be an impressive, if pointless and rather boring skill but Frank has elevated it to a brilliant and hilarious standalone act. It's his personality and the constant engagement with the audience. If he succeeds with a trick then it's impressive. If he fails, intentionally or otherwise, he makes us laugh with an amusing one-liner. Excellent stuff!
@@ThadCastled117 Those aren't the same at all... playing dumb in a conversation is an intuitive act, its not even a skill. Whereas there is a HUGE difference in having the skill to ride a unicycle properly, and having the skill to deliberately fling your center of gravity to extreme angles while maintaining full control of your balance. It is not "actually pretty easy to do", not in the slightest. Just imagine in terms of bicycles, it takes us a couple days to learn how to ride a bike, but far longer to have the skill to turn at extreme angles. This is all due to a huge difference in center of gravity.
Very smart act:If you drop a few intentionally, we never know if there are any mistakes. Not always succeeding makes the audience watch more closely. Present yourself in such a way that the audience wants you to do well. Be so good that people praise you for how well you can look bad. Laugh like you mean it.
This act got a lot of mileage for him, I just saw this close to verbatim from (supposedly) 1988! Met and juggled with Frank at a convention in '04, he was grizzled but still a guy that just made you feel good to be around. Also was either champ or runner-up of five-ball endurance at fest. Thanks for uploading!
@@FunnyFrank Oh damn! Hi Frank! IIRC the additional bits here are the coat, 5b start, floppy machete, and tutu, but I haven't seen the other video in a bit. This is James Chance, who was with Dave Clay at whichever convention that was. Would have been Humboldt or Coeur D'Alene. You were one of the highlights of that convention for me, I remember that much : ) At the time I had no idea who anyone was or their history, but it's been awesome discovering some of the people I met so many years ago were accomplished and storied performers. Thanks for saying hello!
Occurrences Your first sentence sounds negative, I've watched him twice now on RU-vid 10 yrs apart, same bumbling juggler theme, lot of new content in the second one. Comedy is changing, if The Amazing Johnathon didn't come out and go, "You sir, in the back, do you have a handkerchief? ... then go like this [rubs bottom of nose] there's something hanging from the bottom of your nose." I wouldn't know who I was seeing. He's started his act with that same joke for 23 years I've been watching him, and it still gets mega laughs.
@@happydays8171 Let me draw a distinction for you: "This person always does the same thing."(Implied: is uncreative and/or boring, uses period) "This act got a lot of mileage for him!" (Implied: is a good act and/or respectable, uses exclamation mark) Not sure where you're coming from or why you'd chime in on my comment multiple times rather than make your own; as a technical juggler of 15 years and more to the point a person of good humor, I have nothing but appreciation for Mr. Olivier. Jury's still out on you though.
I don't think people realize how talented this guy is to engage with the audience basically doing a stand up comedy act, mixed in with amazing juggling skills whilst deliberately being clumsy all at the same time.. I've seen his earlier years and it's amazing what all he can do, this video does it no justice. I encourage anyone to check more of his acts out on youtube.
goddamn why is there no biographs about him? i wanna know more about him
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Awesome and charming with the failures... Because the normal audience wouldn't be able to perform not even close to that act! Thumbs up from someone who can't even juggling 3 balls continuously for more then 5 seconds 😊 Greetings from Taiwan
@@cringeyusername7459 that's what I was going off of. Like when he dropped the ball trying to catch it on the back of his neck. Usually he catches it the first time.
28k views and only 500 likes? Takes a lot to impress people apparently! Show people the right way to juggle their phone, laptop, and chargers - there's probably some good "accidental drop" bits for that one! Way scarier than knives!
