The Pinar del Río comedian Iván Camejo has traveled from Miami to Havana and presented a monologue there in the show 'La risa por delante,' which is broadcast on YouTube. His performance was the ninth episode of a project led by Osvaldo Doimeadiós.

The show by Iván Camejo, titled "The Time Machine: First World Problems and the Cuban in a Resort," reaches its climax when he asserts that Cubans have only two problems: food and lunch. "You don't have a neuron for anything else. You wake up thinking about one and go to bed thinking about the other. It's a cycle," he said in the show published on YouTube this December 29, which has accumulated over 160,500 views to date

Previously, the comedian argued, Cubans had three problems (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), but breakfast has become a thing of the past. "We’ve removed one from the list. One less problem. One less thing to worry about," added the former director of the Humor Promotion Center.

In his monologue, Iván Camejo also states that he comes from the future and therefore warns his audience that the future, in a subtle reference to the first world, is neither what we believe nor what we were told. "It's different," "it resembles our past more," he said while clarifying that he had gone to Cuba to visit his mother and "to unwind."

He hasn't achieved the first part. "I haven't seen her (his mother) because we don't have electricity," he added before diving into a description of what he considers a time machine. "You get on a Havana-Miami plane, and it's a journey through time. You get into a tube, buckle yourself in, and in half an hour, you arrive in the future."

And once in the future, you start finding things you left in the past, like a piece of salted cod or a chunk of jerky; the obsession of the first world with being skinny, with not eating meat, with being vegetarian, or with riding a bike. "In the 90s, those who weren't slim were considered counter-revolutionaries," he pointed out, referring to the collective weight loss during the hunger crisis of the Special Period.

He also reflected on the passage of time (very slow) in Cuba and (very fast) in Miami; he joked about the problems of the West. Among them were climate change, global warming, and stress, and he painted a picture of a Cuban's behavior at a resort in Punta Cana, compared to what a Norwegian or a Dane typically does.

Regarding politics, not much. In a 25-minute show, in the final stretch, he joked that people in the United States are strange because on election day, they still don't know who the president will be. There were discreet laughs from the audience, but he dropped the message there.

A project by Doimeadiós

Iván Camejo is not the first Cuban comedian to collaborate with Osvaldo Doimeadiós at his comedy club (they refer to it in English as stand-up comedy). In mid-December 2024, Carlos Gonzalvo, popularly known as 'El Profesor Mentepollo', was also on that same stage in Havana.

Miguel Moreno, 'La Llave', Doimeadiós himself, Rigoberto Ferrera, Jorge Bacallao, Capitan Diez, Visti Cárdenas, and Kike Quiñones have also passed through there.