Ana Fabrega, co-creator of 'Los Espookys'

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ana Fabrega is a comedian, actor and writer. She's probably best known as a star and co-creator of HBO's Los Espookys. The show is about four friends who love horror. They run a company where they go around town and they're often hired for gigs to fool and scare other people. But it's not really a horror show, it's very funny. It's also a very sweet, goofy, kind of surreal show about friendship, identity and carving a place in the world for yourself. Los Espookys just nabbed a Peabody award for its second season. To celebrate, we are revisiting our conversation with Ana from last year. When Ana joined us she talked about growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona and finding her people when she moved to New York. Plus, most of the dialogue on Los Espookys is in Spanish, Ana talks about what it was like to write jokes in Spanish – something she had never done before.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:22.3	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:24.1	My next guest is Anna Fabrega.
0:27.1	Anna is a comedian, actor and writer.
0:29.4	She worked on a Chris Gethered show.
0:31.6	She had great parts on High Maintenance and on At Home with Amy Cideras.
0:36.0	But she's probably best known as a star and co-creator of one of my all-time favorite
0:41.2	television programs, Los Ispookies.
0:44.2	Look, I'm not a horror guy.
0:55.6	Slasher movies, too gory for me, ghost movies, too creepy for me, jump scares.
1:00.9	No thank you very much.
1:03.0	But Los Ispookies is not really a horror show.
1:07.2	It's a show about four weirdos who love horror.
1:10.8	They run a company where they go around town bringing scenes from horror movies to real
1:15.4	life.
1:16.4	Or, I guess, the kind of stuff you would see in horror movies, demonic possessions, sea
1:23.4	monsters, creepy aliens, that kind of thing.
1:27.6	It's not scary though.
1:29.2	It is sweet and goofy and a little bit surreal.
1:32.5	It's about friendship and identity and carving a place in the world for yourself.
1:39.1	It just nabbed a Peabody Award for its brilliant second season.
1:43.8	A Peabody well-earned.
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