Venezuelan Comedians Seek Life After Chavez

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Right wing backed 'satirists' ponder their next target on the left...

Juan Andres Ravell (left) and Oswaldo Graziani, creators of the satirical web hit, Isla Presidencial, pose for a picture in their Caracas studio, behind them a cartoon of Bolivian President Evo Morales.

By ANDREW ROSATI
March 19, 2013

The death of Hugo Chávez has left Venezuelan humorists Juan Andrés Ravell, 31, and Oswaldo Graziani, 33, scratching their heads, as their hit animated series, "Isla Presidencial" (or "Presidential Island&quot , has suddenly lost its star.

"Isla Presidencial" portrays caricatured Latin American presidents stranded on a deserted island. Among the cartoon cast is a perpetually stoned Jose Mujica (the President of Uruguay), a trigger-happy Juan Manuel Santos (the new Colombian president) and a wide-eyed, busty Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina's head of state).

But it's Venezuela's late bombastic president who steals the show.

"He's the Charlie Sheen of 'Two-and-half Men,'" says Ravell, referring to the void created when Sheen left the hit U.S. sitcom...

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1. Maduro is a clown, so new material should be fairly easy to come up with n/t

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