Dream Jobs With John Cotrocois
John Cotrocois is a Montréal comedian whose captivating stand-up has earned him a spot on Just For Laughs Montréal 2023. John found his way to the stage as a storyteller where he became so popular, he got his own t-shirts. Then he migrated to comedy, endearing the Montréal scene at ZooFest & OffJFL and all kinds of clubs across the city. In 2020, the Comedy Nest named John Comedy’s Rising Star. And now the star has risen. Congratulations, John! Your fans are so proud of you.
Within seconds, John had me laughing impossibly hard. Please laugh along with us! Episode highlights include:
-Good dates, BAD dates, and how Home Depot can save us
-Day jobs, dream jobs, and how Home Depot can save us
-Mental health, self-esteem, and how comedy prevents extreme depression (and promotes High-Functioning Self-Absorption [HFSA])
-Stage fright, performance tips, and how it all went down at John’s Just For Laughs audition
-PLUS, Erica attempts to cure John of his dieting and muffin guilt, and Erica and John help “My Dirty Horny Dick” reconcile his varsity-level kink with his vanilla, sex-free relationship. Gosh, there are lots of sex-free folks out there. Erica and John can’t fix this—but they have thoughts.
Content Warning: Our listener question is absolutely rated R. It discusses varsity-level kink and BDSM. It also briefly mentions illegal and child pornography. If tuning in feels ill-advised, skip over the following time stamp and enjoy the rest of the episode. (Listener Question = 53:56-1:05:05)
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Hit up John’s FREE show at JUST FOR LAUGHS MONTRÉAL on Sunday, July 23, 8 PM at the Comedy Nest )
He’s also in Zoofest and many other riveting shows!
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Tiny Karaoke Segment: Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)
Maddie Corman’s play, Accidentally Brave
Mixing, Ukulele, and Cover Art by Erica J. Schmidt in Montréal, Quebec
Special thanks to Taes Leavitt (darling big sister, Big Heart Journey), Sherwin Tjia (technical and creative advisor, Sherwin’s Quirky Events), and my dearly departed Eileen Gun, whose generous gift helped to fund my new podcast equipment. Thank you so much for listening! Stay tuned for more episodes extra soon. Don’t forget to follow This Is Your Strange and Beautiful Life on your favourite podcast platform. And if you enjoyed the episode, I would be immensely grateful if you could share it with a friend and/or leave a kind and enthusiastic rating and review.
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Listener Question from My Dirty Horny Dick
Dear Erica (and John),
I am a straight white dude in my mid-thirties. My girlfriend and I have been together for seven years and living together for five. I love her and I enjoy our life together; however, I am not sexually attracted to her, and haven’t been for some time. We had some okay vanilla sex when we first got together, but the problem is, I am not vanilla. Not by a longshot. I am into varsity level BDSM. Degrading domination, age play, animal play, ravishing fantasies, and a few things I’d rather not mention. All with consent—of course. I started watching porn in my early teens and feel more aroused by a screen than I can pull off in real life.
My girlfriend and I haven’t had sex for the last four years. I have told her the lighter version of my fantasies and she is not at all interested in exploring them with me. She’s content with us never having sex as long as I promise never to cheat on her. I care about her and appreciate our cozy, comfortable vibe but I am not sure I can go the rest of my life without indulging my deeper desires. It seems unrealistic that I won’t slip up once or twice. I also worry that she is concealing any sexual frustration with anxiety that I will leave her. At one point we went to a counsellor in the hopes that maybe she could help me get over my fantasies. As you might imagine, this didn’t take.
So far, I have more or less remained faithful though I have a couple objectified women I message online who send me debasing photos I jerk off to every once in a while. Whenever my girlfriend travels for work, I tend to reach out to them and have wild masturbation sessions. While I’ll send these women a dick pic or two, we never talk live or video chat and so we keep a certain distance. This satisfies me to an extent but it feels like a slippery slope. I don’t want to hurt my girlfriend. I also don’t want to leave her and lose our loving bond. I tell myself, there may not be sex, but at least I have a relationship with someone who’s real and not just a face on a screen. Am I making a mistake in settling? Is there a cure for my fantasies? Please help.
Love, My Dirty Horny Dick
