Five of the funniest moments in Latino Comedy Project history
Twenty years of comedy sketches have produced some intended — and unintended — laughs.
Can it really have been 20 years? Since 1997, the Latino Comedy Project, the brainchild of visionary cultural activist Maria Rocha, has been saying what nobody else in Austin would say. And making people laugh every step of the way.
To celebrate the double-decade landmark and to remind folks of a one-weekend-only revival of “Gentrif *cked” at the Santa Cruz Studio Theater, we asked some of troupe long-timers about their funniest LCP moments.
Danu Uribe
About 10 years ago, we had a gig at the University of Texas for a Latino student organization. It was basically a large classroom auditorium we were performing in, so they had set up a popup pipe-and-drape-style dressing room on the stage. Our tech guy was set up at a table next to the stage with his laptop.
The show was going really well. I had written this musical parody called “Shave My Legs” to the tune of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name.” It was a goofy piece bringing light to society’s obsession with women’s bodies being hairless and the plight of hair removal.
About a third of the way into the song, I noticed a man in the back of the auditorium gesticulating wildly. Then he started running down the aisle right at the stage. I just continued singing and dancing like nothing was going on.
Then, the guy started telling our tech guy to “Shut it down! Shut it down!” And I was just thinking to myself, “What in the world is going on?” The man started pulling at the cords.
And that’s when the music just stopped.
I still continued to sing and dance until the man declared to