"Project's Campaign To Make You Laugh Works"

The witty pranksters of Latino Comedy Project leave little out of their sights in their new show "Citizen Quién?" now half-way through a four-week run at the Hideout.

The two dozen sketches ricochet through a long roster of subject matter. And the LCP's usual spot-on sense of timing and snappy writing keeps the ride rocking and ribald.

Worldwide retail conglomerate "Mal-Mart" crushes a one-woman flan vendor out of business. Upwardly mobile Latinos seek sophisticated therapy and drugs when the pressures of being bicultural get too much. President Bush sings a childish song, wishing that more Latinos would join Republican ranks.

Weaving in and out of the different sketches and video parodies of commercials and news shows is the story of "Citizen Quién?" When right-wingers push Congress to allow the foreign-born citizen Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for President, they're surprised by Arturo Quintanilla, a Mexican movie-star with a curiously similar rags-to-action-hero-riches story. In video documentary-style segments, Quintanilla's goofball story unravels, from his days as part of a Chiclet-selling cartel to his movie celebrity.

In addition to the new show, the troupe is performing another full-length late night revue, "The Best of Latino Comedy Project," two nights a week.

Together, it makes for a Latino laugh riot.

("Citizen Quién?" continues at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays through June 4. "Best of the Latino Comedy Project" continues at 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through June 4. The Hideout, 617 Congress Ave. $10-$12. 389-0892. http://www.lcp.org.)