Ignacio Socías Sepúlveda

Ignacio Socías Sepúlveda is a Chilean stand-up comedian and screenwriter, born in Santiago on 24 February 1991. He enrolled in law at the Universidad de Chile in 2010 before switching to journalism three years later, completing neither degree. His comedy career began in 2011 after he took part in a workshop led by Sergio Freire at the Centro Cultural Balmaceda. In 2014 he joined the final season of the television program El Club de la Comedia and appeared in Comedy Central Presenta: Stand-up en Chile, the first Comedy Central special filmed in Chile, alongside thirteen other local comedians. In 2015 he co-created the satirical YouTube channel Frente Fracasados with law school classmate Javier Gallegos, and in 2016 he launched the comedy web series Tiempos Mozos. He also co-hosts the podcast Lucas y Socías. In April 2024 he marked ten years in comedy with a show at the Teatro Oriente in Providencia, Santiago. One of his best-known solo routines, Soy Tu Papá (I'm Your Dad), is an emotionally wide-ranging show in which he uses comedy to address his father's suicide, which occurred when Socías was nine years old.