Jake Flores

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Jake Flores
Punchline - May 4 - Jake Flores (cropped).jpg
Flores in 2007
Born1986/1987 (age 36–37)[1]
San Antonio, Texas
OccupationStand-up comedian, podcaster
Years activec. 2005-present
Websitewww.feraljokes.com

Jake Flores is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from Texas now living in New York City. He has released two albums on Stand Up! Records: 2014's Humours, and 2021's Bad Omen.

Flores was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in Houston.[2] His father, a chemist, is Mexican-American; his mother, who is white, is originally from the Midwest.[2][3][4] He is descended from Juan José Arredondo, a Mexican anarchist who worked with Ricardo Flores Magón during the Mexican Revolution.[2][5]

Career

Stand-up comedy

Flores began performing comedy in Austin, Texas, when he was 19, after dropping out of the University of Texas at Austin.[1][6][7][8][9] In 2007, he performed in the finals of NBC's Stand Up For Diversity contest.[10] He moved to Brooklyn, New York, at age 27 to further his comedy career.[7][11][12]

Flores is politically leftist and anticapitalist.[4][5][13] His outspokenness has led to controversy. He received national attention when a series of Twitter jokes about Cinco de Mayo, cultural appropriation, and killing ICE agents led to an investigation by Homeland Security, including a visit by several agents to his apartment.[8][14] The incident was written about in publications including Reason and The New York Post,[15] and Flores was interviewed about it on several podcasts including Chapo Trap House.[3][4][10][13] He also discusses the incident on his album Bad Omen.[16]

His comedy takes inspiration from the anarchic energy of punk music; Flores has also called himself a "big fan" of Lenny Bruce, explaining to one interviewer that "like him, I also had a run in with the state over comedy, and am a leftist."[17] Jake Kroeger of website The Comedy Bureau called Flores "hysterical and pointedly different from everyone else".[18] The Bushwick Daily called his comedy "low-key, but subversive".[8]

He has performed across the U.S.,[1] and at festivals including Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest,[19] SXSW,[20] The Fest in Gainesville, Florida,[20] Moontower Comedy Festival,[7] New Orleans' Hell Yes Fest,[21] the touring road show of Comedy Central's Roast Battle,[7][22] and at events for the anti-capitalist streaming service Means TV.[23][24]

He has written for The New York Observer,[25] Cracked,[26] and the New York Times,[27] and has contributed to Vice magazine.[28]

Albums

He has released two albums on Stand Up! Records: 2014's Humours, and 2021's Bad Omen. Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site called Bad Omen "fun" and "good comedy-club fare" but felt Flores came across as "jaded".[16] Reviewing Humours, Lanoie called parts of the album "brilliant" but said he felt that Flores' other material was "good but does not quite fit with how original and smart the stronger moments are."[29] Chris Spector of Midwest Record was more positive, calling Humours "a roller coaster ride of wild laughs. Hot stuff."[30]

Podcasts

Flores has hosted several podcasts about comedy or politics. In 2017, he started Pod Damn America, a self-described "gothic socialist comedy podcast", with comedians Alex Ptak and Anders Lee. It has released more than 300 episodes as of 2022.[24][31] The Bushwick Daily described it as "a grab bag of occasionally bro-y leftist political riffing, more serious cultural deconstructions, and casual storytelling."[8]

In 2019, he and anthropologist and comedy booker Luisa Díez started Why You Mad?, a podcast focusing on leftist and Latino issues, philosophy, art, and comedy.[32][33]

He also hosted Mr. Cleo, a comedy podcast about a telephone-psychic scam artist, for 25 episodes in 2017–18.[7][34]

Sex work

In 2020, a Reddit user linked a screenshot of a "femdom-style" pornographic video that Flores partook in with a friend of his, in which he consumed his own ejaculate.[35] Though Flores called the leak "incredibly cruel and sadistic", he expressed that he was unbothered by it, concluding in a Twitter thread about the leak that, "If you're a man and you're afraid to eat your own cum with a woman you're basically gay."[35]

Discography

References

  1. ^ a b c Gomez, Adrian (2019-02-08). "Making it look so easy: Comedians Jake Flores and Mishka Shubaly create an interesting show comedy". Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  2. ^ a b c "WYG#85 Jake Flores". Who's Your God? A Comedy and Religion Podcast! (Podcast). February 28, 2019. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  3. ^ a b Virgil Texas, Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman (2018-05-13). "Episode 210 - ICE to See You feat. Jake Flores". Chapo Trap House (Podcast). Retrieved 2021-12-08.{{cite podcast}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[self-published]
  4. ^ a b c "Jake Flores, Chloe Hilliard, and Wil Sylvince". The Comedy Cellar: Live From the Table (Podcast). June 29, 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  5. ^ a b Duncan Trussell (April 29, 2021). "Episode 433: Jake Flores". The Duncan Trussell Family Hour (Podcast). Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  6. ^ Tristan Miller (April 9, 2020). "Jake Flores". Positive and Negative (Podcast). Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  7. ^ a b c d e Lopez, Valerie; Goodwin, Richard (June 9, 2017). "Jake Flores: Confidently Unconfident". ComedyWham. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  8. ^ a b c d Jones Kraft, Brian (2019-01-28). "Political Dementia: An Interview with Jake Flores of Pod Damn America and the Yoko". Bushwick Daily. Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  9. ^ Brenner, Wayne Alan (2010-12-31). "The Ups and Downs of Comedy". Austin Chronicle. Austin, Texas. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  10. ^ a b "Inside Zero Books #71: Comedian Jake Flores' visit from Homeland Security". Inside Zero Books (Podcast). May 19, 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  11. ^ Rodrigues, Ashwin (April 22, 2020). "Live Comedy Went Online, and the Hecklers Followed". Vice. New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  12. ^ Reager, J.D. (May 28, 2014). "The Price Is Right's Skateboard Rabbi". Memphis Flyer. Memphis, Tennessee. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  13. ^ a b Will Carey (July 29, 2019). "Episode 104 - Jake Flores". Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey (Podcast). Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  14. ^ Krueger, Katherine (2018-05-10). "The Brooklyn Comedian Whose Joke About ICE Got Him a Visit From Homeland Security". Splinter News. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  15. ^ Nolan Brown, Elizabeth (2018-05-14). "Comic Says ICE Raided His Home Over Twitter Joke About Cultural Appropriation". Reason. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  16. ^ a b Lanoie, Richard (October 26, 2021). "Jake Flores – Bad Omen". The Serious Comedy Site. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  17. ^ Trembath, Ron (2021-02-12). "Jake Flores [Interview]". Trainwreck’d Society. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  18. ^ "Jake Flores' Debut Comedy Album "Humours" Out Now". The Comedy Bureau. August 27, 2014. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  19. ^ Roe, Dale (2014-11-06). "FFF scheduled comedy for you and it was (almost) all yellow". Austin American-Statesman. Austin, Texas. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  20. ^ a b "Bio: Jake Flores". The Fest. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  21. ^ Cathcart, Olivia (September 3, 2014). "Sean O'Connor, The Grawlix and more headline Hell Yes Fest 2014". Laugh Button. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  22. ^ Hawthorne, Amy (June 17, 2016). "Roast Battle Goes From Big to Giant: Finals Will Air Live From Montreal Just For Laughs". The Interrobang. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  23. ^ Solis, Marie (April 2, 2020). "The Revolution Might Be Televised". Vice. New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  24. ^ a b Knibbs, Kate (2020-03-03). "A 'Netflix for the 99 Percent' Enters the Streaming Wars". Wired. San Francisco, California. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  25. ^ "Jake Flores". The New York Observer. New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  26. ^ "jakeFlores". Cracked.com. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  27. ^ Flores, Jake (May 28, 2016). "My Adventures in Going Viral". New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  28. ^ Androsky, Josh (June 26, 2013). "Scenes from the Pro-Choice Chaos at the Texas Capitol". Vice. New York City. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  29. ^ Lanoie, Richard (April 9, 2018). "Jake Flores – Humors". The Serious Comedy Site. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  30. ^ Spector, Chris (2014-08-21). "JAKE FLORES/Humours". Midwest Record. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  31. ^ "Pod Damn America". Pod Damn America. Retrieved 2021-12-08.[self-published]
  32. ^ Diez, Luisa (December 21, 2019). "The Best Comedy Clubs and Producers Share Their Best In Comedy 2019". The Interrobang. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  33. ^ "Why You Mad? Pod". Why You Mad? Pod. Retrieved 2021-12-08.[self-published]
  34. ^ "Mr. Cleo: A Comedy Podcast". Mr. Cleo. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  35. ^ a b Rolli, Bryan (August 6, 2020). "'Pod Damn America host's old BDSM porn leaks on Reddit". The Daily Dot. Retrieved February 21, 2022.

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