‘Los Espookys’ Star Julio Torres on How TikTok Is Changing Comedy: ‘The Brain Is Wired Differently’

In an era where memes are being posted at lightning speed on social media, deadpan comedian Julio Torres wants to make you laugh at a cracked plexiglass square that he says is “having a bad day” in his upcoming prop-based special “My Favorite Shapes.” Will we have the attention span for it? Maybe, Torres tells TheWrap. Does that mean quickly-digested internet memes and video-sharing platforms like TikTok are ruining the future of comedy? Torres says not so fast. “I think comedy will be different — I don’t think it will be any better or worse,” Torres told TheWrap regarding the future of comedy in the social media era. “It feels like the brain is wired differently, but it’s not any less funny.” “My Favorite Shapes” debuts this Saturday and features Torres — who plays Andrés, adopted heir to a chocolate fortune in HBO’s “Los Espookys” — going through a conveyer belt of lifeless objects. Torres holds up shapes and crafty figurines like squares, a tiny cactus or a mini airplane curtain, bringing them to life by comedically analyzing their potentially human qualities. Also Read: 'Los Espookys' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO “To be a curtain, and pick that as your...

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