Felix Pire is the puppeteer behind The CUZZIN M Show, where he plays the titular character fo Cuzzin M, an ostentatious TV personality who gets a new gig after losing her late night slot due to her hilariously vulgar persona.
“CUZZIN M” takes viewers on a compelling ride as our protagonist navigates the challenges of getting back on her feet in her return to the spotlight, bringing with her a larger-than-life personality that many aren’t prepared for.” The series, created by Keke Palmer‘s KeyTV, was developed by Palmer herself. The series counts guest stars such as Flex Alexander, Shanice and more. Created by Rosero McCoy and Eric McCoy. That “ostentatious TV personality,” you may ask? A puppet. The series’ launch comes as KeyTV recently reached the 1 million subscriber mark just as it celebrated one year since launch. Here’s a Playlist: The CUZZIN M Show.
In November of 2021, Felix was asked to audition for Sesame Street as a puppeteer, to play Rosita Monster’s wheelchair bound father — although he didn’t get the role, it was a huge badge of honor to be asked and to be flown to New York to audition!
In 2007, Felix Pire began producing a Latinx puppet webisode series with SNL style humor on a YouTube channel called LosTiteresTV, which means The PuppetsTV in Spanish. Since then, there is also a Twitter page, Facebook and Instagram.
From this web series emerged the idea for a sitcom/variety show, and here’s the POWERPOINT PITCH & PILOT EPISODE SCRIPT: The Señor Loco Show: “El Piloto”!
Felix portrays a slew of characters within the LosTiteresTV brand, seeing himself as a cross between a Latino Jim Henson 2.0 with the humor of a Seth MacFarlane.
Among the cast are: Señor Loro (a Cuban-American ex-parrot), who produces & hosts his own snarky ‘variety show’, The Señor Loco Show, about a ragtag cast of immigrant characters, aspousing an edgy, satirical, political point of view. A sketch comedy variety show on current events, politics, and pop culture. It aims to entertain viewers through a mix of live sketches, musical performances, and comedic monologues. In an original twist: Celebrity hosts that are mostly hilariously “othered”, treated as second class citizens, and/or subjected to ridicule by the puppet characters.
LosTiteres.TV YouTube Playlist
@LosTiteres.TV showcases a SNL-style visual imagery meets Muppet Show-like mayhem and lovable #Latinx characters with Comedy Central age humor using — shall we say — indelicate language.
Felix was noticed as an Executive Producer/Showrunner by The Producer’s Guild of America which awarded him a fellowship for their 2008 Producers Guild Diversity Workshop. Under the mentorship of veteran producers, Felix prepared a pitch for the @LosTiteresTV web series as a television series called: The Señor Loro Show!
Thanks to his friends at Swazzle.com, one of the premiere puppet building companies in the United States, Felix was cast to puppeteer in a commercial for Realtor.com as the FOMO MONSTER!
Felix played the kooky French Lighting Designer, JEAN CLAUDE Character in the Quasar Science puppet series highlighting their ingenious lighting products, and poking fun at the silliness of some celebrity lighting designers.
Puppet Up! Felix Pire was the first Latino puppeteer cast member in training in the original Jim Henson’s “Puppets Up!” company of puppeteer/comedy #improvisers.
Scouted from auditions, working with Swazzle.com, plus the @LosTiteresTV web series, Felix was invited to become a member in training with Patrick Bristow of The Groundlings, and master puppeteers Victor Yerrid, Alan Trautman, Patrick Johnson & Sean Johnson of Swazzle.com for the cast of the Jim Henson Company’s “Puppet Up, Uncensored“, a puppet improv comedy for adults, which was Drama Desk Nominated for its Off-Broadway version.
In 2010, Felix was honored to be hand picked by The Jim Henson Company to puppeteer & voice a pitch to integrate puppets into ESPN’s Spanish language sports themed show, “Nación”.
88 Jade Way, a puppet series produced by YouTube’s YOMYOMF Network revolves around an affable apartment building manager, Mr. Fu, dealing with his misfit group of tenants.
Felix puppeteered one of the “series regular” roles, “Red” the Vietnam Vet, plus several recurring characters, in addition to being “puppeteering captain” throughout the shoot.
On TEAM SMITHEREEN, Felix puppeteered and wrote as part of a team of comedy writers on the pilot episodes of this television series by Dan Clark Company, W!ldbrain, and Jetix Europe for Disney XD, populated by off-beat, rubbery puppets who despite all their reckless stunts, don’t ever die.
Felix also puppeteers FULL BODY PUPPETS:
