Ep. 73 - How Richard Villa Brought Spanish Stand Up Comedy Into The US!

I.E In Friends

Sonoro | Saul V Gomez, Aaron Caraveo

Soccer, Sports, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Hello Friends! Today we have the key player in developing Spanish stand-up comedy in the United States, Richard Villa! He has appeared on Netflix, MTV, Comedy Central, HBO and more! He goes over how he started and the life of a comedian on the road! Hope you enjoy! Buy tickets to our stand up show before they sell out! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-villa-at-empire-bowl-in-redlands-tickets-383696565757 Follow Follow Richard Villa! https://www.instagram.com/richardcomedy/?hl=en Follow I.E In Friends here: https://linktr.ee/IEinFriends Get 25% OFF + Free shipping with promo code IEINFRIENDS at liquid-iv.com Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code IEFRIENDS at MANSCAPED.com! Take The Mic! https://forms.gle/nSf7f2YKqSgxRBur8 Subscribe to us Patreon for exclusive episodes! https://www.patreon.com/ieinfriends Saul V Gomez Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/saulvgomez/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Saulvgomez_ Cesar Sotelo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iknowcesar Twitter - https://twitter.com/Caesar__0 Aaron Caraveo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/airball_10/ twitter - https://twitter.com/aaron_caraveo Time Stamps! 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:13 - Pursuing stand up 00:04:18 - Crazy Hecklers 00:06:30 - When your idol recognizes you 00:07:45 - Manscaped 00:10:07 - We’re doing a stand up show! 00:11:14 - Doing comedy even when you don’t want to 00:17:08 - Being away from family as a comic 00:18:37 - marrying a border patrol agent 00:27:41 - Clashing with other comedians 00:30:30 - Joke stealing 00:33:33 - Did Carlos Mencia steal material 00:38:15 - Fighting for time 00:41:27 - Growing further than comedy 00:43:00 - The price of fame 00:51:34 - 6th street bridge 00:56:29 - Take the mic 01:13:40 - The fuqq boi past 01:19:10 - Dating life as a comic 01:26:43 - If Richard wasn’t doing stand up 01:32:30 - Bringing Spanish comedy to the mainstream 01:39:50 - Doing stand up in Mexico 01:46:27 - Getting drunk with your dad 01:48:39 - Influencers doing stand up 01:54:44 - Come watch us live! 02:05:34 - Exclusive Patreon clip 02:07:20 - Patreon shout outs

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0:00.0	What's up friends? Welcome back. Welcome back to I.E.N. Friends. My name is Saul Gomez.
0:12.0	My name is Cesar. Oh, my name is Aaron. And today's special guests, we got a comedian, OG. He's been on HBO. He's been on Comedy Central. He's been all over the world. He's been on porn hub. He's been on browsers. Grindr, tender. He does it all that. He started refried Fridays at the Hollywood Improv. We got Richard VIA. Hey. Hello, hello, hello. Hi, hi. How you doing? Thank you for joining us.
0:38.3	Very, very excited. Thank you for having me, man. The I am friends. Now that I moved to the IE, I was like, I got to make some friends. There you go. So you're from LA, man, Compton. Compton. And then, you know, I didn't want my daughter to look at bums every day. Bums every day. So I said, I'm going to move out here to the IE.
0:54.7	And then you saw more bums.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.3	No, not really.
0:57.3	Nah.
0:57.9	That's fine. I didn't want my daughter to look at bums every day. So I said, I'm going to move out here to the IE.
0:54.8	And then you saw more bums.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.4	No, not really.
0:57.3	Nah, not really.
0:58.7	Nah, no, no.
0:59.4	L.A. is L.A. man.
1:00.8	L.A. is horrible.
1:01.6	You went from the city to the suburbs.
1:03.0	City to the suburbs.
1:03.9	I want her to have a backyard.
1:05.5	Yeah.
1:05.7	No. That gets reported. So you're a stand-up comedian. That's so fucking dope.
1:11.1	When did you start stand-up and how did you start it?
1:15.0	I was working as an engineer in Irvine, California.
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