A Cuban pilot, a veteran of the United States Air ForceHe launched a new career, this time as a comedian, because “he loves to make people laugh”.
This is José Sarduy, born in the Las Tunas province of Cuba, who came to Miami with his mother when he was just three years old during the Cuban exodus marial in 1980. On his Instagram, he says he has never forgotten where he came from.
Boat where it would have arrived in the US Instagram José Sarduy
Speaking to 7 News Miami reporter Karen Hensel, he said he grew up in Miami Springs and received a scholarship to the United States Air Force Academy after graduating high school.
Now he’s a lieutenant colonel, 27-year veteran and flight instructor in the Air Force Reserve who “dreams about flying in comedy too”: “That’s the goal, to do theater and then be back in Los Angeles and go on TV, in movies, whatever it takes. That’s next,” he said.
Sarduy is currently producing the show “Flying Funny” in which he shows off his flying skills and makes his followers laugh with the antics of brave friends who take the risk of boarding a flight with him, the intel reveals.
His sister Mauriett Chayeb tells the news channel that Sarduy has used his knowledge of flying “to make people laugh” and that his passion for flying is helping his career to flourish.
The veteran also has comedy specials on YouTube. His presentations in the Dry Bar Comedy section, which has 2.18 million subscribers, has thousands of views on this platform.
He also tours the US and claims that 2021 “was my first year out of the military doing comedy full-time,” and he said he spent “three weeks a month alone in my car.”
Sarduy performs in theatres, clubs, universities and on cruise ships.
His mother, Maricela, still lives in Miami, a city that received most of the Cubans who arrived in the Exodus in the 1980s and is known as “los marielitos”.