Success St. Fleur, Jr. can still hear the adults from the church he grew up in telling him in jest, "pa fè joke sou mwen" — Creole for 'Don’t make fun of me.' But St. Fleur never listened to them. Instead, he turned their Haitian ways into a career in comedy.
St. Fleur, better known as ‘Junior,’ rose to fame in 2015 when skits of him imitating his Haitian-American parents took off on social media and beyond. The most striking part about St. Fleur’s videos, he said, is how deeply they resonate with his audience.
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