Comedy

Roman Suarez’s story is the essential American tale. The child of South American immigrants, Roman grew up in a single-parent home in The Bronx. 

“There was no money for a babysitter,” he recalls. “So what raised me was television: ‘I Love Lucy,’ ‘M*A*S*H,’ Redd Foxx, all these hilarious comedy shows. After watching a hundred reruns of ‘Benny Hill’ or the ‘Saturday Night Live’ show that I would tape record, I would just do that...

Wali was working on becoming the best Architect in New England, but his calling to be in show business was strong. One day, he told his mother he had decided to give up being an architect and instead he was going to be a comedian.  Her response was “Y'NEVANO” (You never know). Soon Y’NEVANO became more than his mother’s encouragement to live a life without regrets, Y’NEVANO became a state of mind. If the Y’NEVANO philosophy could profoundly...