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The Arts Spotlight
ANGELO COLINA
es un comediante venezolano que emigró de Colombia a Estados Unidos en el 2018. Empezó a hacer stand up en Wiseguys Comedy Club (Salt Lake City, Utah) y ahora reside en Nueva York, donde fue co-fundador de Español Please (el cual fue parte del New York Comedy Festival 2021) y Gente Funny (el primer showcase en español en Washington DC). En el 2023 hizo su primer tour con su show ‘Solito’ y acaba de debutar como headliner en el New York Comedy Festival 2023. Angelo va a girar por todo Estados Unidos.
Venezuelan comedian Angelo Colina is on a mission to make Spanish-language material mainstream in the U.S. comedy scene. In the past, Latinx comedians with non-English routines have largely been relegated to restaurants, bars and other spaces where Spanish already dominates.
A young audience filed into a Washington, D.C., club called Room 808 (@room808dc) to see Gente Funny – the Spanish-language circuit Colina recently created. During his set, Colina asked people in the audience where they’re from. A young guy sitting in the back raised his hand. “I’m from Bolivia, my friend’s Cuban!”
“Bolivia y Cuba?” Colina replied in Spanish.
“I’m white as f***k,” the Cuban friend said in English.
“No, you’re not,” Colina smirked. “Pero a los cubanos les encanta pensar que lo son.”
The crowd erupted into laughter, as Colina continued to shake his head.
In interactions like these, Colina’s performances poke and prod at the construction of Latinx and Hispanic identity in the United States, without subtitles. Framing and satirizing that identity is inevitably complicated because it encompasses such a wide range of races, countries, languages and cultural backgrounds. Spanish itself is an colonial language imposed throughout Latin America, where people still speak a variety of indigenous languages. But Colina said for Latinx performers, it can still feel like their identities need to check a certain box or rely on particular tropes.
“But I’m not only an immigrant, and I’m not only Venezuelan, and I’m not only a guy with an accent,” he said.
Story by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento/NPR • @isabellamariags