Jacques Ze Whipper gives the Mountain King a whip makeover
Classical-music requests and jokes about exhausted arms fill the replies to his latest musical whipping routine.
Why this story? The video drew 836 comments in its first day, 5.4 times a normal first day on this channel (154).
In the Hall of the Whipping King
Jacques Ze Whipper isn't volunteering for an encore. In the description of "In the Hall of the Whipping King," he admits the landing wasn't quite right, but says he wasn't doing it a second time.
That little concession fits the conversation beneath the Short. Viewers are talking about the stamina involved, joking that their own arms feel tired and treating the routine as Jacques' cardio for the day. Others have noticed his stare toward the camera, imagining that he's holding them personally responsible for the assignment.
The title nods to Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King," the steadily intensifying piece written for Peer Gynt. For a second-generation circus performer who takes his act to Renaissance faires, it's a musical premise with a particularly physical punch line. One viewer remembers playing the piece on tuba at school and imagines having a whip-wielding accompanist.
The views were ordinary for one of his Shorts, but the first-day comments came in more than five times as heavily as usual. And the requests are already escalating: a popular reply proposes "Flight of the Bumblebee" for the next classical-music outing.
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Where next?
What viewers say
Next on Classical Music Renn Faire, we have "Flight Of The Bumblebee".
@frantremblay1630See it on YouTubeHe stares at us like we asked him to do this.
@gregory53252See it on YouTubeBet all the tuba players who had to perform this in school WISH they had their buddy accompanying them on the whips.
@HarbourKatOzSee it on YouTube
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And there's Jacques' cardio for the day!
@cezardan01See it on YouTubeAt some point my brain will rewire itself to hear music as whipping sounds.
@death13aSee it on YouTubeSomehow this made MY arms tired 😂
@melosidhe779See it on YouTubeThe way he just makes this all look so easy through like the first two thirds of the video
@nicoleklarecki6940See it on YouTubeWell good morning to you too, Jacques.
@atree1394See it on YouTubeKnow that if I had seen this in person, I would have stared in wide eyed awe, and then stood up applauding at its conclusion. Bravo, sir.
@simplyixia3683See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Jacques Ze Whipper
- Subscribers
- 1,760,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,148,377
- Channel views, pace per day
- 538,574 (on a normal day: 806,186)
- Video published
- October 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 161,539 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 74,283 (on a normal day: 119,761)
The numbers
The unusual activity was in the replies, rather than the size of the audience. Here's how the Short's first-day comments compare with Jacques' usual uploads.
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Who composed "In the Hall of the Mountain King"?
Grieg wrote the piece as part of his incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt.


