Julio Torres on SNL, Los Espookys and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Julio Torres is a powerhouse. He's a comedian, actor and former writer for Saturday Night Live where his sketches brought a touch of magic to the show's standard fare. When we talked, he'd just released his first comedy special My Favorite Shapes. It's a little sideways from what you'd expect. Just like his HBO show Los Espookys —a horror-comedy that starred Julio alongside Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and more. The show's second and – tragically – final season aired late last year on HBO. It's one of our favorites, so we figured we'd send off Los Espookys by revisiting our 2019 conversation with Julio.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:21.2	It's Bullseye I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.7	My guest is Julio Torres.
0:25.1	Julio was born in El Salvador.
0:27.5	He came to the United States to pursue a life in conflict.
0:31.3	His first big gig was writing for Saturday Night Live.
0:34.5	You've heard of it.
0:35.5	His sketches on the show are, well, they're a little different than the usual SNL stuff.
0:41.7	It's not like topical material about politics or pop culture.
0:47.2	It's dreamy and magical and almost wistful.
0:51.7	Here's a good example.
0:52.5	In Ryan Gosling hosted SNL back in 2017, Julio wrote this sketch about a man who is haunted
0:59.7	by the font used in the logo of the film Avatar.
1:04.0	Avatar the movie from like nine years ago?
1:08.6	Yeah.
1:09.6	He just highlighted Avatar.
1:12.6	He clicked the drop-down menu and then he just randomly selected papyrus like a thoughtless
1:20.2	child just wandering by a garden just yanking leaves along the way.
1:26.4	And so now you're worried about the sequels that are coming out?
1:30.2	They're making more?
1:31.2	Yes, I think I've heard that one.
1:35.0	So they changed the artwork.
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