Simplemente Manu NNa

He told Spain the Netflix first was a burden

Manu NNa was 26 when Yorokobu reached him by phone in May 2017. Netflix had just put his hour on the homepage. He said, as far as he knew, it was the first special by an openly gay comedian on the platform anywhere in the world. He called that a load, not a medal. "I always thought one of the biggest problems you can have is not daring to do things because of what people will say." He put famous actors who hide being gay in that pile. He did not want a character. He wanted the honesty standup is supposed to sell, latestnetflix.com argues, including the part where he is gay. He claimed 99 percent of the bits were true. Being mistaken for a lesbian. Telling his parents.

Mexico, he reminded the magazine, sat second in the world for homophobic killings after Brazil. Letra S had counted 1,218 from 1995 to 2014. A UNESCO figure in the same piece put homophobic bullying at 67 percent of LGBT students surveyed. Same-sex marriage without a court fight existed in fewer than a third of the 32 states. When Peña Nieto floated a national fix, family and bishops groups called it an attack on freedom. Manu's answer onstage was smaller. One drunk woman in Estado de México tried to throw a glass and asked why he was so maricon. He asked why she wanted to throw it, then landed the black joke about three women dying a day in that state and a gay man every three days. "Good thing I'm a faggot and not a woman. That way I have three more days of life."

A gas-station queen who became an hour

He wanted acting school. They kicked him out and told him he would never be any good. He studied cabaret at El Vicio in Coyoacán, the protest-theater kind, left-leaning, farce mixed with improvisation. The character he wrote was a misogynist, homophobic gas-station clerk secretly in love with President Enrique Peña Nieto, dreaming of being La Gaviota, Angélica Rivera. In the bit, that meant the clerk was in drag. Everyone who heard it said that was standup. He enrolled with Blanca Salces and Jorge Zárate at Foro Shakespeare, first rooms of 30, then Café 22 in Condesa, where Comedy Central Latin America found him. One taped special a year until Netflix. "They came looking for me. It was a year of work, because I had to collect the hits and write new comedy. It's like going to a Guzmán concert and wanting her to sing 'Hacer el amor con otro.'"

Chueca, a Madrid LGBT outlet, called him the first gay Latin American comic with his own Netflix special. Infobae said the streaming tape was shot in Los Angeles. TMDB lists Raúl Campos and Jan Suter as directors, Manu as writer, 1 hour 11 minutes, 5 May 2017 in the US. Campos's later credits run past two dozen Netflix hours across Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile. Netflix wanted Spanish-language standup at volume. Manu was one of the hours.,,,

The logline is telenovelas and mezcal. Chueca named Simplemente María with Victoria Ruffo. Infobae printed a bit about uncles who eat too much chicken or chupirules and therefore must be gay. TV-MA. Spanish original. English and Latin American Spanish subs. IMDb sits at 5.6 from 52 votes. NewOnNetflix logged the US add date as 5 May 2017. He did not want to be the first. He wanted the Guzmán hits and the new pages in the same set.,,,,