Señor Babyhead sports blue lips, a painted-on wispy mustache and teardrop tattoos. He wears only briefs, and his T-shirt, concealing a padded belly, bears a life-size image of a hairy man’s chest and abdomen.
He is also “the best actor in the world.”
The drag clown creation of Analisa Raya-Flores, Señor Babyhead is trying to claw back the relevance he once enjoyed as a Mexican sitcom star. Among his favorite methods of doing so are sitting in audience members’ laps, singing along to ’80s hits, clutching a giant prop baby bottle and doing pistol squats.
In describing her art, Raya-Flores — a queer, autistic Chicana performer who lives in the Sierra foothills —put it bluntly. “I made things I thought were funny and that white people thought were sad,” she told CanvasRebel Magazine last year.
Now she brings Señor Babyhead to Church of Clown, the three-year-old Visitacion Valley venue dedicated to the art of clowning.