In case you hadn�t heard, the chief executive of the United States for the past eight years will be out of a job soon, a fact few people seem upset about. But already missing the Decider are the members of the Latino Comedy Project, who have to bid �adios� to someone who�s been a fertile source of satire since before 2001. (The popular sketch troupe was mocking W when he was still Texas� governor.) To say adios, the LCP is presenting Bye Bye Bush, a collection of the group�s greatest hits (at you know who). Asked if he has a favorite among the weapons of mass derision lobbed at el jefe, LCP Artistic Director Adrian Villegas demurred at first: �The Bush sketches are all like my very incompetent, very �special� children. I can�t pick a favorite.� But then he noted that �the one we did about when he was governor was prescient, as well as our Iraq/Mexico invasion stuff. I�m pretty proud of that particular show�s thread. We were ahead of the curve of Bush-mocking by at least a year and a half, doing it post-9/11 and right at the beginning of the war before most people dared. And our mockery was so effective he got re-elected.�
The Latino Comedy Project presents Bye Bye Bush Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27, 8pm, at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. For more information, visit www.lcp.org.
This article appears in September 26 • 2008.