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Liam Casey
Staff Reporter Toronto Star.

Jason Farro was the kind of guy who would stand in Dundas Square dressed in nothing but his underwear and sumo wrestle a 340-pound man.

He was also the kind of guy who would disappear for weeks at a time, smoking weed every day. Yet no matter where he travelled, laughter followed.

On Thursday, Justin Melter, Farro’s best friend and sometime sumo wrestling opponent, lamented the loss of laughter.

“You could not not like this guy,” Melter said. “He could turn anything into a party.”

But the funny man met a sad end this week. On Sunday, his body was found in a burned-out home in St. Thomas. Police said he was killed before the blaze after an autopsy revealed blunt-force trauma as the cause of death.

Farro was a regular on the comedy circuit both in Toronto and online. He gained Internet fame through blogtv.ca, where he broadcast wacky interviews and pranks live from a green Hummer for the “Jmon Show.” Melter, who also had a popular show on the website called “Ask a Fat Guy,” struck up an instant friendship.

They became two parts of the 4Horsemen, a comedic improv group that drew a large and devoted following.

Each member went by a pseudonym. Farro kept the Jmon moniker. Melter was known as the Fatman, Jamie Bragg was CptStoner and Armindo Moniz was Big Arm. They performed both sketch comedy and stand-up. Bragg remembered the first time they met.

“He had a show on, and I invited him down to my place and I gave him a tattoo of the BlogTV Hummer on the back of his leg,” said Bragg, who is not a tattoo artist.

“Yeah, I don’t have the tattoo gun anymore,” Bragg said.

The group dissolved over “creative differences,” Melter said.

Farro lived with Kate Farrell for much of 2008 at the corner of College and Borden Sts. on the outskirts of Little Italy.

“We loved it there,” Farrell said. “I loved him and I adored him then.”

One night, the couple went to the casino in Niagara Falls with Melter and his wife Dayna Janzen. The casino was giving away Megadeath tickets. Farro and Melter saw it as another opportunity for laughter.

The pair strolled around the casino, topless, with the words “Give me the tickets” scrawled on their chests. Farro also had the words “Please insert tickets here” written on his buttocks. A month later, Farro and Melter were watching Megadeath.

Farro moved in to Melter’s basement after the breakup with Farrell and lived there until last year. Since then, he has bounced from his mother’s place in Etobicoke to friends’ couches in Ontario and British Columbia.

But Farro had a dark side. He spent time in jail last year after a domestic incident, Farrell said.

Police said he was in St. Thomas visiting friends. Const. Cam Constable said no one is in custody, and police are not commenting on possible suspects. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

Above all, it is Farro’s humour that most will miss. Melter said they were recently working on some new material.

“It’s kinda sad, I don’t want to go through it right now, but we had tons of stuff,” Melter said, “Just gold, man, just gold.”

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