La Mezcla is a freeform conversation with mixed race and first-generation artists and comedians in New York City. Each week we explore themes of culture, belonging, perseverance, awkwardness, and home cooked food. Hosted by Peruvian-American comedian Adrian Burke.
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About our guest: Otter Lee (He/They) is a Queer NYC-based actor, comedian, writer, and voiceover artist. He currently voices Otter Lin on the animated satire series Stephen Colbert Presents: Tooning Out the News on Paramount+. They will also be starring in the Comedy Central cartoon Fairview in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, Otter served as a creative producer and performer for Asian Comedy Fest. His storytelling segment "Discomfort Food" recently premiered on the Comedy Central X Logo Instagram collab "The Gag."
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5 Oct 2021TRANSCRIPT
E65 - Gabe Pereira Made Videos of Frozen Bees
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About our guest: Gabe Pereira is a Brazilian-American stand-up comedian and writer based in NYC by way of Boston. He’s performed at the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and currently produces Boyz in the Woods, a stand up-meets-trivia show, where audiences can win free drinks by answering pop culture and hip-hop trivia questions in between comedian’s sets. He also writes and shoots comedy sketches and contributes headlines and articles to the satire magazine FlexxMag.
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28 Sept 2021TRANSCRIPT
E64 - David Perez Did A Commercial with Snooki
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About our guest: Hi! I’m David! I am Brooklyn based writer, performer, comic, and homosexual Mexican man. I was a performer at UCB Theater NY (RIP) and my work has been seen at Steppenwolf Theatre, Littlefield, Dixon Place, Joes Pub, and The Exponential Festival. My writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Contagious Magazine and an essay of mine will appear in this fall's "Kweendom" Anthology.
My pilot “1993” was a Semi Finalist in the Screencraft competition, and won 1st place in the Fresh Voices ½ hour pilot competition. Before the world became poo poo, I hosted the popular monthly show “Hail Mary: Our Queer Saints.” I have a BFA in Acting, and a PHD in gossip.
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E66 - Otter Lee Was the Driver in Annie
Published 18 Nov 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like it was about the seagull by Anton Chekhov. We are like not even 10 minutes into this podcast and we're already at your Anton Chekhov Destiny's Child bit. That's amazing. So it sounds to me because this was was going to be one of my questions at one point. But I feel like I'm getting the impression that like performance and comedy and like creative writing was like already very much. When I was when I was in sixth grade, I was in my like middle school's production of Annie and I remember being like, oh, oh, I really want to do this. Who did you play? I played the driver because he was Asian in the movie and in the junior version of the musical, he doesn't have any lines. […]
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