Comedians from Cuba
The comedian directory for Cuba: profiles, bios, photos and social links.
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Cuba has a long and influential comedy tradition. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the teatro bufo, or vernacular comic theatre, filled Havana stages with stock characters, music and satire, and theatres such as the Alhambra made comedy a central part of Cuban popular culture. Radio and later television carried that humour into every home.
One of the most famous examples is the radio and television comedy La tremenda corte, in which Leopoldo Fernández played the incorrigible Tres Patines and Aníbal de Mar the judge. Its courtroom sketches, built on wordplay and misunderstandings, are still remembered across Latin America. After 1959 many Cuban performers continued their careers in exile, especially in Miami, where Guillermo Álvarez Guedes became famous for his joke albums and stand-up shows and Alexis Valdés later found success on television and stage in the United States and Spain.
Cuban humour is fast, musical and full of double meanings, with a love of choteo, the habit of making fun of everything, including oneself. Typical subjects include family, food, scarcity, bureaucracy, love and the experience of exile. On GiggleTime you can browse comedians from Cuba, read their profiles in your own language and discover performers from both the island and its diaspora.