“The more vulnerable and honest I get about my experience … people are relating to that,” says Gonzalez, who’s featured in “Roots of Comedy with Jesus Trejo,” streaming Friday.
It is said that in stand-up comedy, it’s important to embrace who you are. For Laredo native Vanessa Gonzalez, being Mexican-American and growing up on the border built a solid foundation for laughs.
Now that’s really interesting you say that, because I’m thinking, I never thought that people in the RGV took themselves more seriously than folks in Laredo. Is that the big difference, you think? And then when I moved to L.A. – I lived in L.A. from 2018 to 2020 – and I started telling people that I’m from the border and that my parents worked for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, they were like, “what?” Like that just didn’t compute to them. And I’m like, “oh no, yeah, like at the border, it’s like Mexicans telling Mexicans not to come in” and they’re like, “what?” And I’m like, “yeah, that’s kind of how it works.
When you’re living someplace, that means living. That means paying for stuff. That means, you know, being around other people. And your perception of what normal is, well, it’s distinct in a place like Laredo.
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