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Julia Masli, the comic behind the captivatingly bizarre “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,” may be from Estonia, but in clown genealogy she is a close relation to Andy Kaufman’s Latka.

Her persona is part space alien, part naïf of some Baltic backwater. She wanders through Pasadena Playhouse, where her show opened Sunday, like a “Star Wars” extra who got off at the wrong galaxy.

Wearing a headlamp in the shape of a pistol and proudly displaying a spare gold leg that serves as a not-very-dexterous arm, Masli wanders the rows of the theater in search of someone to help. Her manner of speech is otherworldly, like an arthropod testing out human vocal folds.

I couldn’t quite make out what she was

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