Comedian and YouTube personality JP Sears is both the Internet’s ultimate guide to living an “ultra spiritual” life and what he has termed “conscious comedian.”

“I love to use the language of comedy to help people become more conscious people so they can actually improve their lives,” Sears said in a recent telephone interview.

Sears, who will perform at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples June 13-16, uses his 15 years of experience as a professional life coach to achieve this unique blend of seriousness and comedy.

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Club owner Brien Spina said that he is always in a constant search for the newest, latest and greatest performers in the comedy world.

Sears, who has been performing live comedy since late 2017, is bringing in a new and different clientele to the club which is always exciting, Spina said.

Sears posted his first video online five years ago and has since stepped away from his life coaching business to pursue comedy full-time. Sears currently has more than 800,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, AwakenWithJP, with some of his more popular videos garnering over 12 million views.

In a video series titled “Ultra Spiritual Life,” Sears satirizes everything from those who eat a vegan diet to the recent abortion ban in Alabama.

His artistic aim in creating each video is striking a balance between saying something intelligent and doing so in a satirical manner, he said.

Comedy has always come naturally to Sears, who said he was the class clown growing up. While working as a life coach helping his clients deal with “emotional healing issues,” Sears was also being trained in the “inner workings of the human heart and mind.”

“A lot of times my comedy is about bringing those issues to the surface and acting them out,” he said.

Sears referenced his video on “passive aggressive relationship techniques” to highlight this comedic approach to sharing sincere life advice.

“I like to do my best to add something else to the comedy that makes people laugh,” Sears said, “which is attaching a purpose to the comedy so that they’re not only laughing and having a good time, but also maybe thinking a little bit deeper and becoming a little bit more aware and conscious in their lives.”

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Sears’s YouTube channel began as a place to share sincere life advice videos to grow his life coaching business, he said. Although ideas about how he could incorporate comedy in meaningful ways kept coming up, Sears was nervous to post his first satirical video.

“It just felt like, ‘Oh, if I make a comedy video that’ll be bad for business, it’ll discredit me as a life coach.’” Sears reflected. “So I thought it’d be a bad idea but the ideas kept coming with the persistence.”

Sears was diving head-first into the comedy world at a time when audiences had trouble grasping the idea of an Internet personality who was both sincere and funny, he said.

“In the beginning it seemed like what I was gathering from people is they’re used to people being only one thing,” Sears said. “You’re either serious, like Deepak Chopra, or you’re only joking around like a comedian.”

But Sears has always held firm in the belief that it is possible to be both.

“I really value both parts of me, the sincere and the satirical,” he said. “And they don’t need to be mutually exclusive. I realized I just feel more whole, I feel like I’m more me and I feel like I also offer something better to the world when I let myself be both at the same time.”

Take the video Sears recently uploaded on the city of Naples, for example.

“If you mistakenly thought Florida is so redneck that it makes the regular South look like the North like I did, and still do, you’ll rethink your thinking when you discover the only non-redneck section of Florida—Naples,” Sears says in the video’s opening.

Sears calls the video a “comedic, respectful offering” to a city he’s visiting.

“You’re hosting me and yeah, the least I can do is leave a little token offering of my appreciation for you," Sears said.

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Comedy is a universal language that everyone can connect to, said Sears of his years in the professional industry.

“It feels like a ridiculous blessing where I get to be playful, have fun, be goofy, say what’s on my mind and heart, and that’s what I get to do for a living,” he said.

When: 7 p.m. Thursday; 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday

Where: Off the Hook Comedy Club, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road, Suite 1100, Naples

Cost: Starting at $25

Information: offthehookcomedy.com or 239-389-6901