Someone Please Stop the Vacilón

Thu20Oct2005

Someone Please Stop the Vacilón

La Mega's el Vacilón de la Mañana morning radio show is apparently so popular that a movie version oh so smartly titled, El Vacilón: The Movie, will be hitting the big screen soon. The Spanish language radio show is based out of NYC's WKSQ 97.9 FM aka la Mega radio station. It is a mix of vulgar and insulting jokes and schoolyard pranks mixed in with morning news, traffic, with an merengue or bachata thrown in. Hosted by two Rican characters, Luis Jimenez and Moonshadow, the show is currently syndicated in New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Boston, Hartford, Philadelphia, Tampa and Orlando. So there is an audience ripe and ready for the film which also features actor Paul Rodríguez and spoken word artista Caridad De La Luz aka “La Bruja".

I'll admit to having heard the show a few times years ago. I will admit to chuckling during the "Caiste!" segment, where people are pranked called. The rest of the show, which from what I can tell hasn't changed since the years I last listened, plays to the lowest sense of Latino humor. Everything is wrapped in sexual double entendres and the comedic skits tend to be based in stereotypes and insults about Latino lesbians, gay men, African-Americans, dark-skinned Latinos, Jews, and South Asian immigrants. Women are treated with misogynist jokes.

The film opens tomorrow , October 21.

el Vacilón de la Mañana website

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Maegan la Mala

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1. Monica Chavez ~ Thursday, Oct 20 2005 | 18:20H:

Morning radio shows are about the lowest form of entertainment around. They just seem to promote ghettoness and stereotypes. To make matters worse, the DJ's are usually ignorant which shows whenever they try to speak about anything political or international. I wish they'd just shut up and play music.

2. Maegan la Mala ~ Friday, Oct 21 2005 | 09:11H:

That's why I don't listen to much radio anymore , save the occasional show on Pacifica or the few Rock and Espanish shows I find out there. I just get mad.

3. GINA ~ Sunday, Jul 01 2007 | 03:39H:

I HAVE TO DISAGREE, LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR THE HEART, THEREFOR I LOVE EL VACILON DE LA MANANA. THANKS

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