In the last fifteen years, one of the disciplines that grew the most within the Argentine show was undoubtedly the stand up. A humorist who, standing only on stage in front of a relaxed audience, tells the vicissitudes of life.
An hour where issues such as sex, couple and work come into analysis. Sebastián Wainraich, Diego Reinhold, Pablo Angeli and Andrés Ini At the beginning of 2010 were the pillars of a walk the square that exploded from related public.
But this phenomenon transcended the borders and Argentina, as a good seedbed of wines, soccer players and actors, now sees its humorists, more precisely to the United States, where there is a Latin audience needed with comedians who tell him in a fun way the hardships of immigrants. Natalia de los Santos, Florencia Rizzo, Nahuel Bello, Daniela Calvo and Eliana La Casa There are five Argentines who have triumphed in different cities in North America for years and news spoke with them.
Audacity
“My decision to come to try their luck with the stand up to New York It was very crazy. First because I did it at my 45 years, now I have 48, and second because in Argentina I had my own shows with which I was doing very well, ”he admits Natalia de los Santosthat once triumphed on the Buenos Aires billboard with his work “Fury” where more than 500 people saw her by weekend. “My intention was to go to Spain but in the middle I met a boy who lived in Manhattan and I came. As I only got the artist’s visa that only enables you to work as a comedian, the first three months I spent all the savings until I found the turn giving Spanish classes through the performance and now I make my own shows and I give stand up classes to Latinos who love the genre. My students are mostly Venezuelans, Colombians and Cubans. ”
In dialogue with news, Of the saints He acknowledges: “The courtship did not turn out, so I lived the first years by renting horrible rooms for $ 800. Now I live in Staten Island as the character of “Executive Secretary” The morning I take the ferry that is free to come to work at Manhattan. A single environment in New York costs $ 4000, while I pay with my current partner a two environments to much less than half. I have my own show that I do two or three times per month and It is true that I went from 500 people in Buenos Aires to act for 60 in New York, but here I am immensely happy”
Nahuel Bello At 29 he lives in North Miami since the end of 2020. He arranged to move to the house of a friend who knew from Buenos Aires and ended up being husband and wife. The first years waiting for the residence worked remotely for an Argentine company, while crawling content for its humor shows. “I act two or three times per month and usually join those of other Argentines who come to present themselves. The public is purely Latin and as Argentines have a reputation of enlarged and superb, so I hit me a lot. You have to take charge and my humor goes there. Like a lot because there are almost no Argentine humorists here, ”he says. Among the strange things, in addition to his family, is his club Hikerswhich is pronounced fanatic. “I think all Argentines always think of returning. I cannot say that I want to always stay here, but the reality is that I am very comfortable in the United States and on top of doing what I love, which is humor, ”he concludes.
Way to fame
Daniela Calvoalthough she is born in the United States, she spent all her adolescence in Chaco. Listening to his tune does not show how bilingual he is and his humor on stage seems to be brought from the most native Argentine interior. “I came to live Los Angeles As a production assistant but with the unemployment of screenwriters and actors from 2023, I only had to dedicate myself to humor and there I began to make stand up ”. With an unpublished success for their 25 -year -old, the renowned The Comedy Store theater shines. “My show is to tell my sentimental life, the traumas of Latinos in the United States and my experience of considering my Latin born in North America and raised in Argentina.” And add: “People when they come to my shows tell me that they feel among friends chumeando. They feel very close to me. Above all, telling anecdotes where shame because a Latin in the United States goes on shame very often in the most diverse and daily aspects. ”
Another of the humorists who succeed in the United States is Eliana the housewho went to Chicago In 2019, at 27, to study improvisation at the prestigious Second City school, where he understood that he could live on what he dreamed. He arrived single and knew who is currently her husband. “The first months I rented a room in the department of an acquaintance. Then I moved to a monoenvironment until I got married and now we are in a three environments, ”says WhatsApp call.
Unlike his colleagues he does shows in both languages. “I started in English because there was almost no. But last year I went to Spanish because I realized that Latin comedy exploded with Mexican, Colombian and Venezuelan humorists, then the compatriots go as comrades to listen to their same problems as immigrants. The funniest moment is when I show the differences between the expectations of migrating and what really happens, ”says the showgirl.
When Florencia Rizzo He went to live in Miami For her husband’s work in 2012, she was a photographer and had two children. He currently has four and mutated in comedian. “My friends told me all the time that I had to do stand up and one day I cheered, I took a distance course and tried on a stage for my Argentine friends,” he explains to an amazing transformation that has it today as one of the Argentine humorists of more name. “For a few years, when the occupation form has full comedian”, Says proud.
His first and successful show “without a filter”, was followed by “retouched”, where he took celebrity caliber. “Over time my shows were removed the idioms. The base of the show is written about Argentinism but I adapted it. Instead of saying pump, I say Braga, change pool for pool. Non -Reniego del Argentinism but highlights it, but with words that are understood. There are comedians who hide or camouflage it with another culture but I have fun exploiting the “you”, the “che.” In April, he premieres his most anticipated show “which are the chances” with which he intends to turn throughout the United States.
