My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres

This August, comedian and “space prince” Julio Torres (HBO’s Los Espookys, Saturday Night Live) debuts his first HBO comedy special, My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres. Taped before a live audience at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York, the hour-long multimedia comedy show finds Torres exploring his favorite shapes, which include a plexiglass square, a triangle, an oval that he wishes were a circle, a self-conscious cactus and a Ferrero Rocher chocolate that Julio is mad at because she left her little skirt at home. The objects are presented via an industrial conveyer belt and serve as a jumping-off point for fantastical stories, anecdotes and jokes about Julio’s own life and the often-tortured inner lives of the varied shapes – in an alternative comedy hour that’s unique, intimate and unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.