Even though Jeff Civillico can juggle a bowling ball, an apple and a cleaver at the same time, or catch marshmallows in his mouth while sitting astride a 6-foot unicycle, none of that caused his laundry list of injuries. The comedian, whose afternoon Comedy in Action show at The Linq starts with him balancing a chair and even a 10-foot ladder on his chin, rattles off a litany of past wounds. He broke his right arm once, his left twice and had a stress fracture in his foot. He’s had surgery for a hernia. He has nine stitches in his eyebrow.

“People will ask, ‘How did you get hurt? Did you fall off your unicycle? Did you drop the bowling ball on your foot?’” he says. “You want to know the craziest thing? None of that comes from my act. The biggest joke with my family and friends is that I’m a huge klutz. I’m ridiculously coordinated when the lights go up. I don’t usually mess up. I don’t do what’s out of my league. I just do a very basic juggling act. But I’ll fall down the stairs and sprain my ankle.”

The juggling and the balancing create the framework for the show that relies heavily on Civillico’s one-liners and comedy bits he’s developed over the years.

“Everything about my show has been an organic development,” Civillico says, talking about his signature high kick followed by an exaggerated tug at the inevitable wedgie. “I play around onstage and if it’s funny, I write it down. All those little one-liners just come back to me.”

One time, a kid peed his pants onstage, and that made him think of a bit from the movie Billy Madison. “I made that joke. I said, ‘I pee myself all the time. That’s why I always wear black.’ It just comes back. It’s not about the juggling, it’s about the comedy.”

While it may seem difficult to judge whether the ax, the rubber chicken, the hand of Liberace, the Shake Weight, the Furby or the torch on fire are the toughest things to juggle, Civillico says the interaction is where he concentrates the most.

“The juggling for me is so tiny. It’s all just easy. I’ve been juggling since I was a little kid. None of the juggling challenges me.”

Which leads him to a segment that’s an homage to how he got started tossing items in the air. He brings a 7-year-old girl onstage to hold sticks on which he spins plates. “That’s really how it started. I got picked to do a bit with spinning plates in Harvard Square and that really changed my life. I remember the crowd and the lights. I like to create that opportunity for another child.”

Now, more than 20 years later, he’s friends with that juggler who pulled him from the crowd. “I called him. ‘You picked me to be a volunteer 22 years ago. That really changed my life.’ He was tearing up on the other end of the phone.”

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