Jon Lajoie

Jonathan Lajoie (born August 21, 1980) is a Canadian comedian, actor and musician. He was born in Longueuil, Quebec, and raised on the South Shore of Montreal; his father was Quebecois and his mother is English-Canadian, and he is the third of nine children. He had formative experiences with music while attending a Pentecostal church and taking lessons, graduated from Dawson College, completed a professional theatre program in 2002, and played in a band in the Montreal area for three years.

Lajoie gained fame from his YouTube channel, posting comedic original songs, often as rapper characters such as "Everyday Normal Guy", and comedy skits. He began his career as a comedy musician in 2006 and has released four studio albums, the first two featuring comedy music. He filmed an episode of Comedy Central Presents in 2009, which premiered in March 2010. From 2003 to 2017 he portrayed an English-Canadian musician named Thomas Edison in Radio-Canada's French-language series L'Auberge du chien noir.

Lajoie is also known for his role as Taco MacArthur, a perpetually stoned and unemployed musician, on the FXX comedy series The League, for which he wrote and performed 14 songs. He was featured in the films Let's Be Cops (2014) and Quentin Dupieux's Wrong Cops (2013), and appeared in the Canadian edition of LOL: Last One Laughing in 2022. Since 2016 he has released indie folk music under the moniker Wolfie's Just Fine, beginning with the album I Remembered but Then I Forgot, and has contributed original songs to projects including The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) and The Afterparty (2022).