I hate to sound like a whiner, but one of the main reasons why posting has been a little off this past week is since yours truly has been bitten by the flu bug. While I was resting on top of a mountain of tissue boxes yesterday I watched "Ice Age" for the first time and noticed that John Leguizamo was one of the character voices. (Yes, I'm slightly behind with the times).
Back in the mid-90s, Leguizamo starred in a Latino-oriented sketch show called "House of Buggin'". The ensemble included the likes of David Herman and Luis Guzman, and poked fun at "West Side Story" and anti-immigrant measures. (One sketch on a horny priest predated the Padre Alberto controversy by about fifteen years).
Sadly, the show (which I watched religiously) lasted less than a season but the innovative show left plenty of great memories. Take the "Chicano Militant Minute", a recurring sketch on the reexamining of history:
ONline Sources- YouTube, Wikipedia
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thanks for the information..
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