Daniela Mora, initially from Soundview, is featured in a brand new standup comedy particular on Tubi, “Jokes On Us: New Voices in Comedy.”
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Daniela Mora, a Bronx-born comic with a large social media following and a weekly slot at one in every of New York Metropolis’s famend comedy golf equipment, has discovered a good larger viewers from her new streaming particular on Tubi.
“Joke’s On Us: New Voices in Comedy” premiered on Dec. 5, giving Mora a good larger platform than her 104,000 followers on TikTok and much more on Instagram. In her standup set, which was filmed in Los Angeles, Mora took on sugar daddies, a web-based troll who turned out to be a person in a wheelchair, household pressures to discover a boyfriend and the duality of being Latina in a white suburban group.
Sharing private tales appears to return naturally to Mora. One in every of her viral movies pointed to the distinction in how women and men react to sickness, primarily based on an interplay with a male good friend: “Folks say that girls are dramatic, however have you ever ever seen a man when he’s sick? Have you ever ever seen a grown man slightly below the climate? As a result of they flip into divas.” Mora digs into her good friend for his helplessness — solely to disclose on the finish, deadpan, that he truly had kidney stones.
Mora’s id and adolescence inform a lot of her comedy right this moment. Her household is Venezuelan and Colombian, and she or he spent her early years in Soundview and attended elementary faculty in Throggs Neck. When the household moved to Westchester County, it was a “little little bit of tradition shock,” stated Mora, who joked extensively about her twin id — which she referred to as “whitewashed” — within the Tubi particular.
“We gentrified ourselves. It wasn’t taking place quick sufficient,” she stated. To her, being a suburban Hispanic household meant shopping for empanadas at Costco.
Early on, Mora stated she had a knack for leisure. She was at all times the “class clown,” with a loud and large persona that required some adjustment within the suburbs, she stated.
After faculty, Mora landed a job operating a web-based meme web site, which turned out to be her begin as knowledgeable comic. “The web page blew up,” she stated, and earlier than lengthy, she needed to “be the middle of the humorous, as a substitute of behind the display screen.”
Getting began within the notoriously cutthroat world of New York Metropolis comedy wasn’t straightforward, however Mora stated she threw herself in beginning in fall 2021. She took lessons and went to many open mic occasions, and now, a number of years later, she stated she’s established groove. Her social media movies are wildly widespread, the Tubi particular was an “superb” expertise, and she or he additionally has a weekly gig at The Stand in Union Sq., the place followers can see her each Tuesday evening in a present referred to as “Slap Comfortable.”
Though Mora’s Bronx years had been comparatively quick, she nonetheless holds onto these early roots, which she stated had a serious affect on her comedy. She referred to as her humorousness “Bronx-based” and really a lot “within the tradition,” whereas regularly grappling with what her personal tradition actually is, to hilarious outcomes.
In establishing her id as a comic, “I wanted to go along with my persona,” stated Mora. “I discovered my means, and it sort of enhances me now.”
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