Making an appearance to promote the New York Comedy Festival and his new HBO Max comedy special Romantic Comedy, comedian Ian Lara stops by Power 105’s The Breakfast Club to discuss life, new success, and hip-hop. Joining Lara during the interview is fellow comedian and director Aida Rodriguez.
Ian Lara is one of the hottest rising comics in New York City. Last year he taped a set for Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring which has garnered over 10 million views. He made an appearance on this season of NBC’s Bring the Funny and made his late-night debut on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon. He was a regular player on This Week at the Comedy Cellar on Comedy Central and You can catch his short special streaming on HBO Max titled LA meets NY Keeping the momentum going he was named one of 2021 “JFL NEW faces.” Starting 2022 with a bang he’s already signed on to do another half-hour comedy special for HBO MAX produced by Entre Nos.
Ian Lara’s Romantic Comedy is set to debut on HBO Max on November 11th.
Aida Rodriguez: Aida is a writer/performer, comedian, and actor. Lauded by Esquire Magazine as “raucously funny,” she has become a favorite with fans and critics alike. With her first-hour stand-up special released in late 2021 and her own TV series in development, both at HBOMax, She is bound for the comedy stratosphere.
Rodriguez moved to Los Angeles in the early 2000s with her two children after her divorce from Ellison. After a bout with anorexia and a divorce, she turned to comedy for healing. For a time, she and her children were homeless and lived out of a car. She is a five-time host of the Imagen Awards, which recognizes “the positive portrayal and creative excellence of Latinos and Latino cultures on screen”
She made her TV debut in NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2014 where she departed among the top 10 finalists for Season 8.
Rodriguez was a featured comic in Netflix’s Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready—a comedy anthology series from longtime friend Haddish—HBO Max’s Entre Nos: Part 1, and Showtime’s Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All-Star Comedy Jam, among other specials.
On the feature side, she was handpicked to appear in the 2016 film The Comedy starring Robert DeNiro by director Taylor Hackford.
The Breakfast Club is an American syndicated radio show based in New York City hosted by DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne tha God that currently airs in over 90 radio markets around the United States. Common topics of discussion on the show are celebrity gossip (especially in the hip hop industry), progressive politics, and sexual and dating issues. In January 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special). In July 2020, The Breakfast Club was nominated for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Talk radio industry magazine Talkers included it in its 2020 “Heavy Hundred” list of top 100 influential talk radio shows, calling the show “appointment listening every day for people of color.” During the aftermath of the George Floyd protests, the Los Angeles Times called it “a radio forum for the nation’s racial reckoning.” As of July 2020 the show reach 8 million listeners a month according to Nielsen.
In November 2021 the show stopped its simulcast on Revolt.
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