LOS ANGELES — The Sri Lankan community dinners that comedian D'Lo grew up attending in Lancaster, California, and Los Angeles were lovingly chaotic — 100 or so people sprawled across someone's living room, the "aunties" clustered around the couch, the "uncles" outside drinking beers and singing. There were fragrant trays of chicken, fish and vegetable curry, vats of steamed rice and sweet watalappan custard for dessert.
D'Lo was a goofy, amicable kid, often found entertaining other children with jokes and imitations of family members or friends. He remembers provoking uncontrollable laughter in an aunt and uncle, when he was 7 years old with a ribald joke involving a cowboy, a banana and penis-growing pills.
At a young age, D'Lo, assigned female at birth, knew he was a boy and a comedian.
