Flying Funny Series Description

Flying Funny is the brain-child of series creator/producer/director/writer/host Jose Sarduy. It combines two big loves of his life, comedy and aviation, and shares it with the world.

Most people have at some point imagined themselves up in an airplane doing aerobatics. Fear keeps most people out of the tiny cramped spaces of high performance aircraft, but even if you are brave enough, the cost and/or time it would take to go up and do it, or get qualified to do it solo, is daunting.

Famous celebrities sometimes get invited to fly with the Air Force Thunderbirds or Navy Blue Angels demonstration teams for mutual promotional purposes, but few comedians ever get that chance. As hard as it is to get famous as a comedian, it’s even harder to get “Thunderbirds/Blue Angels famous,” and Jose Sarduy didn’t think that was fair!

In the words Jose learned while attending the U.S. Air Force Academy from fighter pilot and poet John Gillespie Magee Jr., he wanted to give funny people the opportunity to “slip the surly bonds of earth, and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings” … or at least do a few maneuvers, not puke, and scream a little.

Jose Sarduy is a 15 year veteran of the comedy stage, a 23 year U.S. Air Force veteran, and 22 year veteran of aviation. He’s flown everything from gliders that need to pulled by another airplane up into the skies with a rope, to a 300,000 pound cargo jet plane hauling people and stuff all over the world (only Antarctica remains his sole unvisited continent). He became an instructor shortly after learning to fly, and hasn’t stopped sharing his love of aviation ever since. He teaches aerobatics regularly as a Reservist these days, and that means guests on the show get a full fledged military aviator taking them up for aerobatics… ok, so maybe the airplane is a little less powerful than and F-16 or F-18, but this is a self funded project, and comedy don’t pay well!

Check out Flying-Funny and, to quote Magee again, maybe you’ll get inspired to be one of the few who “joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of’ … or at least enjoy some funny people challenged to be funny while scared out of their minds! Good times!