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" In this series, we ask comedians to name the comedians they enjoy. Then we ask those people, too.  Last week, Vladimir Caama\u00F1o chose Erik Rivera. Below, Rivera talks about Mike Vecchione, seen on Comedy Central and IFC&amp;#039;s Z Rock.      The first time I saw Mike I thought he was hilarious. He&amp;#039;s one of those guys I think everyone should know. He has a different voice, he has a different style. The first jokes I ever saw him do, I&amp;#039;ll never forget it. He wrestled in high school and he goes, &amp;quot;I did not enjoy the attire. It&amp;#039;s that tight singlet, the head gear, the leotard thing. It&amp;#039;s like gay from the neck down and a little retarded on top. And that&amp;#039;s how I wrestled: gay and retarded.&amp;quot; I was like, &amp;quot;This guy&amp;#039;s hilarious.&amp;quot;  He&amp;#039;s a true joker. He will sit there with a newspaper or a pop culture item, and he will churn out like 20 or 30 jokes. I&amp;#039;m more of a life guy, with stories about my son and my wife. Actually, when I&amp;#039;m having trouble with a story, I&amp;#039;ll call him and he&amp;#039;ll help me see it from another angle. I had this joke I used to do about Mexican restaurants, about how I&amp;#039;m not sure when to use to much Spanish, like if I have a Latina waitress or a white waitress. So this one time I was being good, I pointed at the menu to show her what I wanted and she said, &amp;quot;Oh, the tacos al pastor con arroz?&amp;quot; And I was like, &amp;quot;She tried to out-Spanish me.&amp;quot; And Mike said, &amp;quot;You know what would be good at the end of the joke? Say you got her pregnant.&amp;quot; So, that&amp;#039;s what I did. I end the joke with, &amp;quot;And I got her pregnant. There&amp;#039;s nothing more Spanish than that.&amp;quot;  I used to run a Latino night at the New York Comedy Club and Mike&amp;#039;s Italian but I&amp;#039;d have him come out. Sometimes they&amp;#039;d love him\u2026 sometimes not so much. But he knows he&amp;#039;s funny. He challenges you not to laugh. I don&amp;#039;t know if he does it on purpose, but it seems sometimes like he digs himself into a hole intentionally. I remember this one night, a little old Hispanic lady was in the front row. He gets on stage and the first thing he says is: &amp;quot;Hey, everybody. Give it up for the woman who killed Selena.&amp;quot;  \u2014As told to Julia Carpenter  PLUS: Meet the Other Comic&amp;#039;s Comics   Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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