S02E03 Gino Christofaro, German / Portugese speaker - Brazilian 🇧🇷/ German 🇩🇪 Comedian
Gino Christofaro is the podcast’s first guest whose home city is not indicated in the episode title. He simply cannot name one.
Being an embassy kid, Gino never had a childhood home like many of us do.
Gino has been featured on Comedy Central Germany’s Roast Battle and is a now TV writer in both English and German for Comedy Central, ZDF, Paramount+ and Amazon.
Born in São Paolo, Brazil, Gino was brought “back” to Bonn, Germany then moved with his parents to Saudi Arabia, Argentina…. just to name a few. Not in once place has Gino stayed for more than three years. He had one year to make good friends, another year to enjoy the friendships only to lose those friends later. Now Berlin-based, Gino identifies more with New York that dominated his childhood TV and where he started performing (but he is not even an American to call NYC home).
A running gag in this interview is how Gino pays so much attention to his hairs, which your host mocks as a “First World Problem”. But the hair issue runs deep and reflects the childhood anxiety of a constant outsider always trying to fit in a new environment. The “embassy kid” journey forged Gino’s unique cadence in his mother tongue and influenced his approach to stand up comedy and to the audience.
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Intro
What is his name “Gino” short for?
A German Brazilian (of Italian descent)
A New York English accent and a “weird” German accent
Gino’s hair issues (one key theme throughout the interview)
On Gino’s Jersey/New York accent again
A little rant on Little Italy, Italian New Yorkers, Albanians
Why Gino was constantly during his childhood
On Gino’s hair issues again
Where does Gino consider to be home? Berlin or New York?
An identity-less guy, a German perceived to be faking American
Identity-less or little traits of all different places?
How much does Gino have to explain his identity at the start of his comedy set?
Gino’s German-ness questioned
A comedian’s attire and audience’s expectation
From anxious comic to not caring about what people think
Sadness and depression and how it’s reflected in his comedy (and social media)
The German (language) comedy scene
What Gino represents as an English comedy performer
Does liberal Berlin give Gino a false sense of comfort?
Gino’s social media
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Podcast intro music by @Taigenkawabe
