After five years on the Denver comedy scene, Los Comicos Super Hilariosos, the monthly comedy show that I’ve run with some friends, is hanging up it’s faux-Chicano boots and calling it quits. Seems time to mosey on, to head off into the night die a good and proper Mexican death – which, if my travels have taught me anything, means that the show is not really dead at all but, like, still kind of hanging around on the earth or something even though it’s dead but now it’s like…um, just worshipped and has food left out for it on certain holidays and stuff because it’s a spirit or skeleton or something. Exactly. Mexicans have a fucked-up relationship with the dead (see Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo, 1955). Regardless, we had a hell of a time putting on what was widely regarded as the best alt, indie, what-the-fuck-ever comedy show in the region. And word certainly got out. In the time that we put on the show, in addition to receiving a (tiny) recycling bin full of great press, we were able to feature such stellar comedians as Louis Katz, Jasper Redd, TJ Miller, Tig Notaro, Maria Bamford, Arj Barker, Moshe Kasher and Kyle Kinane. I’m pretty damn proud of that. I’m also pretty damn proud of the caliber of the show that we put out month after month, especially in the last two years at the Orange Cat Studios. There were some ridiculously funny nights and some crowds that made it all feel electric. Boogie woogie, woogie! I’d like to personally thank anyone who was ever on the show – except those of you that tanked, you know who the fuck you are – but especially Jim Hickox, Andrew Orvedahl, Ben Kronberg, Greg Baumhauer and Ben Roy. I’d also like to thank Sean Rice for letting us use his studio space so freely all the way until his rent got jacked up and he had to leave the building, and I’d like to thank my roommate Monty and my little sister Lydia for so many years working the door. We’ll come back with a new show and a new space sometime soon but for now, it’s hasta luego, Los Comicos. Y gracias por las bromas. But here’s a copy of the video that we closed the grand finale with; it’s a fitting tribute to a show that we all loved putting on for you guys. It’s been real but for now, it’s off to die Mexican style and be dead or, like, not dead forever. But if you want to leave something out to honor us, we’ve always been fond of nachos. They’re faux-Mexican. And we can pretty much get down with that.
Los Comicos Finale from Ben Roy on Vimeo.
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But yeah, thanks for the Los Comicos over the years. Such good stuff. And sorry for making fun of your backpack at the Meadowlark afterparty.