LatinXXX

Marito Antonio Lopez taped his debut hour a month after his mother died of cancer, and instead of softening the room, he walks into a Calgary pub swinging. One minute he is working out grief onstage, and the next he is bragging about losing every single one of his thirty fights, including a St. Patrick’s Day run-in with the cops where he got hammered in a leprechaun costume and punched a squad car.

Born in El Salvador and raised in northeast Calgary, Lopez recorded the show at Vern’s Pub, choosing a hometown bar over a theater. He first put the special on YouTube in February 2025 before Comedy Dynamics picked it up for a wider streaming release in June 2026. By then he had moved to New York City after years on the Canadian circuit, including his 2022 album Beautiful Papi, appearances on Roast Battle Canada, and a recurring role on CBC’s One More Time that earned him a Canadian Screen Award nomination.

The set runs 56 minutes and moves quickly between barroom confessionals and crowd work with local couples. He leans into being a short king dating taller women (joking that strangers assume his girlfriend adopted a wolf boy from Peru), alongside bits on the term Latinx, addiction, and white women name-calling. Not every shift between the rowdy club material and the tribute to his mother settles cleanly, which tracks for a comic processing fresh loss in front of friends and family.