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8 Inglés y Español Canadian<strong>La</strong>tino Newspaper Junio, 2005<br />

Martha Cháves y <strong>el</strong> negocio serio de la “Risa”<br />

Martha Cháves and the serious business of “<strong>La</strong>ugh”<br />

Habla 4 idiomas (5 si está intoxicada o<br />

rezando). Martha Cháves, Nicaragüense actúa<br />

muy normal bajo las luces, y rápidamente<br />

dice un chiste: “Yo rev<strong>el</strong>o muchas cosas, soy<br />

una refugiada política y cada vez que estoy<br />

bajo la luz tengo urgencia por <strong>con</strong>fesar”.<br />

Su <strong>con</strong>tagioso estilo la ha llevado d<strong>el</strong> círculo<br />

de clubes de comedia a la luz d<strong>el</strong> Montreal<br />

Show, al Festival de Comedia de 1994 “Just<br />

For <strong>La</strong>ughs”. Desde entonces ha aparecido 3<br />

veces más en JFL. En 1996 en la apertura d<strong>el</strong><br />

<strong>con</strong>cierto de Tito Puente en <strong>el</strong> Club Metrópolis<br />

en Montreal, después en “Caroline’s” en New<br />

York y “<strong>La</strong> Fábrica de la Risa” en los Ang<strong>el</strong>es.<br />

El mismo año estuvo muy emocionada de<br />

iniciar <strong>el</strong> Show de Gloria Estefan en Toronto,<br />

en <strong>el</strong> 2004 compartió <strong>el</strong> escenario de Lula<br />

Lounge <strong>con</strong> su coterráneo cantautor Luis<br />

Enrique Mejía Godoy, y la Gala de “Festival<br />

de la Comedia de Toronto”.<br />

Este año, <strong>el</strong> 29 de Abril, actuó en la Gala de<br />

la Risa en <strong>el</strong> Auditorio Rebecca Cohn, <strong>el</strong> 27<br />

en Nova Scotia en <strong>el</strong> Casino de la Comedia y<br />

<strong>el</strong> 25 de Abril en <strong>el</strong> DNTH.<br />

Actualmente <strong>el</strong>la es la estr<strong>el</strong>la d<strong>el</strong> Yuk Yuks<br />

Comedy Club de Toronto, donde se presenta<br />

lo mejor de los comediantes canadienses.<br />

Ser comediante es un negocio muy serio,<br />

dice Martha, pero “desde que era una niña en<br />

Nicaragua me gustaba hacer reir a la gente.<br />

Yo creo que uno nace <strong>con</strong> <strong>el</strong>lo”. El humor<br />

de los nicaragüenses es natural, tendemos<br />

a reirnos de casi todo, nuestros problemas,<br />

política, educación, la guerra, la paz, bueno<br />

usted diga.<br />

Durante los últimos<br />

8 años, ha actuado<br />

en Colegios y<br />

Universidades de<br />

Canadá, República<br />

Dominicana. En<br />

Hollywood actuó <strong>con</strong><br />

Denz<strong>el</strong> Washinton en<br />

la p<strong>el</strong>ícula John Q.<br />

Un año más tarde<br />

apareció en Down to<br />

Earth <strong>con</strong> Chris Rock<br />

para la CBS y en <strong>el</strong><br />

Festival d<strong>el</strong> Film de<br />

Toronto, 2003 en <strong>el</strong><br />

cortometraje Perfect.<br />

Una muestra de sus<br />

chistes es este:”Estaba leyendo que <strong>el</strong> éxtasis<br />

puede provocar un clímax sexual por ocho<br />

horas. ¡Ocho horas! ¡No sabía que <strong>el</strong> orgasmo<br />

se pudiera fingir tanto tiempo!<br />

Fluent in 4 languages (5 if intoxicated or<br />

praying), Nicaraguan-born Martha Chaves<br />

performs quite naturally alone under a bright<br />

light, and she is quick to t<strong>el</strong>l a joke: “I reveal<br />

many things, I am a political refugee and<br />

every time I under the light I have the urge to<br />

<strong>con</strong>fess”.<br />

Her <strong>con</strong>tagious style<br />

led her from the<br />

comedy club circuit<br />

to the spotlight of the<br />

“Montreal Show” at<br />

the “Just For <strong>La</strong>ughs”<br />

Comedy Festival in<br />

1994. She has since<br />

appeared 3 more<br />

times in JFL. In 1996<br />

as the opening for the<br />

Tito Puente <strong>con</strong>cert<br />

in Club Metropolis<br />

in Montreal, then at<br />

“Caroline’s” in New<br />

York City and “The<br />

<strong>La</strong>ugh Factory” in<br />

Los Ang<strong>el</strong>es. The same year she was thrilled to<br />

start the Gloria Estefan Show in Toronto, in<br />

2004 she shared the Lula Lounge stage with<br />

also Nicaraguan song singer/song writer Luis<br />

Enrique Mejía Godoy, and at the Gala of the<br />

“Toronto Comedy Festival”.<br />

Recently on April 29 she performed during the<br />

Gala <strong>La</strong>ughs, at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium,<br />

on April 27 in Nova Scotia at the Comedy<br />

Casino and on April 25 at the DNTH (Definit<strong>el</strong>y<br />

not this hour).<br />

She is currently a favorite performer at the Yuk<br />

Yuks Comedy Club of Toronto, where the best<br />

Canadian comedians perform.<br />

Being a comedian is a very serious business,<br />

Martha said, but “Ever since I was a little<br />

girl back in Nicaragua I always like to make<br />

people laugh. I think one is born with it. The<br />

Nicaraguan humour is natural, we tend to<br />

laughs out of almost anything, our problems,<br />

politic, education, war, peace, you name it.<br />

During the last 8 years she has performed in<br />

Canada, Dominican Republic, Colleges, and<br />

Universities. In Hollywood she acted with<br />

Denz<strong>el</strong> Washington in the movie John Q. A<br />

year later she was called to appear on Down to<br />

Earth with Chris Rock for CBS and at the 2003<br />

Toronto Film Festival in the shortfilm Perfect. A<br />

sample of her jokes is this one: “I was reading<br />

that ecstasy can provoque a sexual climax for<br />

8 hours. 8 hours! I didn’t know that an orgasm<br />

could be faked that long!

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