S01E10 Victoria Olsina, Spanish speaker - From Córdoba, Argentina 🇦🇷

Fresh from winning the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year in the UK, Victoria was featured in the Guardian (See link to the article) a month after this podcast episode was recorded. Her unique brand of humour is best illustrated by the joke quoted in the Guardian interview, in a love poem to the former Home Secretary in the UK Priti Patel, "I wish I was the Falkland Islands, so you can occupy me indefinitely against International Law."

Outside comedy, Victoria remains a successful business entrepreneur and a SEO specialist.

Victoria talks about how she has to make do with the very limited understanding of her home country when performing in the UK and how she set foot on the comedy path from a corporate career in the financial sector. Kuan-wen also discusses with Victoria how her deadpan and precise style of comedy delivery may be a by-product of her not being as proficient in English as opposed to her mother tongue Spanish.

See Victoria on stage

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Episode timeline

00:52 Intro

02:51 Greetings in Argentinian Spanish

03:16 "Latin America" v. "South America"/"North America" v. "Americans"

05:29 Falkland Islands - Islas Malvinas

07:11 "I sound like a scam!"

11:11 Former life as a miserable corporate robot (see the corporate robot video Kuan-wen refers to)

13:49 Speaking at a corporate event led to suggestion of a go at comedy

20:06 Argentina in Wong Kar Wai's "Happy Together"

20:54 British people's limited understanding of Argentina and the stereotypes

23:30 Tango

27:45 Victoria's stage presence v. her accent

31:28 Different personas in Spanish and in English

34:50 The importance of addressing her foreignness at the start of a gig

37:04 Is Victoria white?

41:13 Buzz Lightyear's Spanish-speaking mode in Toy Story III

42:47 Between Katherine Ryan & Tig Notaro

45:16 Victoria's social media

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Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe