Surprisingly unsentimental and not at all patronizing, this is a poignant but humorous story of moving on and finding joy in less than joyful moments. Life is not all giggles and guffaws, however, as Jamie still has to deal with daily harassment from his bullying foster brother, he can’t for the life of him figure out how to talk to girls, and he has yet to truly come to terms with the accident that landed him in the wheelchair and left him without his parents and sister. The video of his performance goes viral, he lands a few more gigs, and the laughs keep coming. Fortunately, with the encouragement of his loving uncle and few kooky friends, Jamie tries his act at Ronkonkoma’s Funniest Kid Contest and lo and behold, he wins. Billing himself as “the sit-down comic,” middle-schooler Jamie Grimm isn’t about to let the fact that he uses a wheelchair stop him from being a stand-up comedian it’s his intense fear of public speaking that may prevent him from fulfilling his dream.
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