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Who is Jose Sarduy?

Jose Sarduy is a Cuban-born stand-up comedian and a U.S. Air Force officer, aviator and combat veteran who started out in New York and Philadelphia and now performs around the world, while also teaching future pilots in Texas. Sarduy has toured with the GIs of Comedy, seen on Lifetime's Coming Home, co-hosted NUVO TV's Stand Up and Deliver for three seasons, performed and hosted on FOX's Laughs for two seasons and appeared on NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly.

Sarduy won the Rocky Mountain Laugh Off in Salt Lake City in 2011 and has recorded two Dry Bar Comedy specials, Cuban Pilot (2020) and Airplanes & Broken English, and the albums Estory Tine and Gettin' Sarduy'd. He is a Cuban-American Air Force pilot turned comedian, as Dry Bar Comedy bills him for his special Airplanes & Broken English.

A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Sarduy was selected for the 2007 Latino Laugh Festival in Los Angeles and for the Lucky 21 Contest at The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, and he has been an aviation expert on The WB's Mysteries Decoded and the Weather Channel's Weird Earth.

He served in Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, has been featured in the Air Force Times and seen on CNN and CBS, and Cuban Pilot was, in the words of his own site, Dry Bar Comedy's "#1 viewed special of 2021".

On his YouTube series Flying Funny, billed as comedy with altitude, he takes fellow comedians on aerobatic flights, drawing on his years in military aviation and flight instruction.

On episode 12 of The Dry Bar Comedy Podcast, in January 2024, he talked about his path to comedy, his service in the Air Force, jokes for unwilling audiences and adjusting his act for Spanish speakers.

Stand-up specials

Cuban Pilot (Dry Bar Comedy, 2020) and Airplanes & Broken English (Dry Bar Comedy)

Albums

Estory Tine and Gettin' Sarduy'd

Podcasts and books

The Dry Bar Comedy Podcast (guest, episode 12, 2024)

On screen

Stand Up and Deliver (co-host, three seasons, NUVO TV), Laughs (performer and host, two seasons, FOX), Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC), Coming Home (with the GIs of Comedy, Lifetime), Mysteries Decoded (aviation expert, The WB), Weird Earth (aviation expert, The Weather Channel), Flying Funny (host, YouTube, 2019) and Nobody Drowns Tonight (full set, Comedy Caliente, 2012)