Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory
Comedian Julio Torres, known for his surreal and visually driven humor, breaks down his new HBO special Color Theories, in which he uses colors as a lens to interpret human behavior, systems, and culture—like why Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is orange and Catholicism is purple. In a whimsi
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