Make some room, Rex Navarrete! There are two new kids getting some much deserved attention on the comedy block.
Ron Josol’s comic style is part irreverence and part self-deprecation mixed in with those amusing anecdotal moments that come with growing up in a Pilipino household. The comparisons to Pilipino-American comedian Navarrete are inevitable, but there is definitely no rivalry here. (To be sure, investigative work has revealed that Navarrete is among his Myspace “Top Friends.”)
A Toronto native, Josol has brought his brand of humor to Club 54, T.V. shows on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Hollywood’s Laugh Factory. Josol got more recognition after he produced, co-wrote and starred in a short film “Rolling Longaniza” about a young man who lives miserably in his father’s basement making longaniza (Pilipino sausage) for chump change and decides to change his luck. He currently writes and performs in the Much Music hit show, “Video on Trial.”
Dan Gabriel is another comedian who is getting more notice, especially since his appearance on "The Late Late Show". When he's not courting the insomniac demographic, the self-described "half-Pilipino, half-bald white guy" is raising hairs from San Francisco's Punchline all the way down to The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
Gabriel is also a T.V. network fiend, having appeared on Comedy Central, CBS's "Star Search", NBC's "Late Friday", and even BBC America, as a writer for the award-winning animation series "Thugs on Film." He gives a hefty dose of some uncommon sense, and talks about his adorably small lola (grandmother).
If you want to see Gabriel in the flesh, check his show schedule for an appearance near you-- and be sure to bring some Rogaine while you're at it.
BakitWhy Interviews Ron Josol and Dan Gabriel and the Brea Improv
