By: Jason Fraley
One man. One way. One desire to spoof a movie trailer voice and become a star.
Pablo Francisco performs at the DC Comedy Loft from Thursday through Saturday.
“It’ll rip your voice up,” Francisco told WTOP. “I got a callus with a cigarette butt.”
How might the movie trailer voice describe the past two years of the pandemic?
“This summer has misery written all over it,” Francisco said. “Starring Keanu Reeves, ‘Whoa!,’ and Mark Wahlberg, ‘Hey man, you got Delta? You got Omicron?’ [Explosion] This summer, it’s ‘Omicron Delta Corona 2 Virus,’ [explosion], coming to a theater near you!”
Born in Tucson, Arizona in 1974, Francisco started at The Improv and Laff’s Comedy Club.
“I was like 18 years old,” Francisco said. “Every single week, the owner Gary Bynum was bringing in the best headliners. It was Tim Allen and Bobcat Goldthwait. … Then, Pauly Shore came into town … and I opened up for him at the University of Arizona. … I worked it from there and jumped back and forth to Los Angeles. … It was a beautiful thing.” Read more at WTOP.
