Photo illustration: Allie Carl/Axios. Photo: Courtesy of Angelo Colina
U.S. Latino comedians have largely become successful by performing in English, but one Venezuelan comic is flipping the narrative by selling out shows and drawing a massive online following with his entirely Spanish-language sets.
Zoom in: Most successful Latino comedians — think George Lopez and Cristela Alonzo — have long performed in English.
Colina, who moved to the U.S. at age 24 to help support his family in Salt Lake City, tells Axios' Kim Bojórquez he didn't always perform in Spanish.
"It was mostly knowing that everything that I wrote in Spanish and then translated to English was better than writing in English from the start," says Colina, who now lives in New York.
He pulls much of his material from life experiences, exposing the intricacies of Latino identity.
If you go: See him at The Comedy Zone on Thursday, March 28.
