Favorite Comedians

My favorite comedian hands down is John Leguizamo. I like him because he is not afraid to express how unconventional his life is. He Comes from a Latin family who similar to my family is gigantic, I have more cousins and uncle’s and aunt’s then most people do. He makes fun of how different his family is from the average American family which gives him plenty of material to use. Thing is American family yes come from all over the world yet they don’t share the same culture as some other families do. So he has to basically take the Listener on a verbal voyage through the Dynamics of his family in order to help them understand where he’s coming from. And where he has come from he talks about his parents his relationship with his brother his relationship with his uncle. How his father’s infidelity was handled in their family. How his family life was different than his friends.

I think I related to him because I realized as I was growing up I somehow realized how different my life was growing up then some of my friends. My mother was a single mother, however I did have a relationship with my father. It wasn’t a very healthy relationship a lot of times I had to realize that I was not the number one person in my father’s life. Where my mother sacrificed a lot of things for us growing up my father’s sacrificed nothing. But I do realize that the relationship I do have with my father is valid because my brothers don’t have that relationship with him. I was at least a part of his life even if it was just a picture in his wallet.

This brings me to the point I was trying to make. My father’s family have made it completely normal to make fun of themselves and make jokes out of situations that are actually not very funny but in retrospect what do you do. You got to laugh at it. They are storytellers from the beginning. Either ya laugh, or get upset either way you’re right with what you are feeling, and inevitably take you become part of their story.