Gabriel "Picachu" Iglesias' style of comedy is a mixture of
story telling with characters and sound effects that bring all
his personal issues to life. His amazing ability to cross over
with a clean animated style of comedy has put him in big demand
throughout the stand-up comedy circuit. Ask anyone who has seen
him in concert and you will probably hear the same thing, "He
was so funny!"
Gabriel, one
of the rising stars in the recent boom of Latino comedians, was
put on the map by the Galavision TV show, "Que Locos!".
This highly successful television comedy hour quickly spawned
into a nationwide tour of sold-out performances across the country.
The experience not only helped to develop Gabriel's loyal fan
base, but also led to additional film and television roles. He
has guest-starred on ABC's "My Wife & Kids," Showtime's
"Resurrection Boulevard" and was involved in the WB
pilot for "Deez Nuts". His stand-up has been featured
on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno," "Good Morning America," "Showtime
at the Apollo" and BET's "Comic View" to name a
few. On the big screen, he has been seen in the independent film
"El Matador," and coming in 2005, Gabriel will star
in "The Surfer King," where he will play the role of
Aokee, the manager of a water park Surf and Snack Shack.
Known as the
"fluffy" comic in the Hawaiian shirt, the 27-year old
funny man often riffs about his girthy middle - whether it's talking
about how little dancing it takes for him to work up a sweat at
the nightclub, or how hearing his girlfriend coo the words "chocolate
cake" over the telephone works for him like phone sex.
Gabriel performs
stand-up nightly while spreading his positive message of laughter
by day at high schools. He includes in his punch lines messages
about the hazards of alcohol and the importance of voting. In
2000, Gabriel won a Kid's Choice Award for the Nickelodean TV
show "All That." He then won the Comedy Central &
Comcast Cable's Comedy Special of the year in 2003 and in 2004
& 2005 was voted into the Top 25 of Comedy Central's Standup
Showdown.
The youngest
of six children, Gabriel spent his first five years living on
the eastside of Chula Vista. By the age of eight Gabriel and his
mother were on their own and making a fresh start in the city
of Long Beach. One night Gabriel's mother took him to the local
video store where he rented a comedy tape starring Eddie Murphy.
Two weeks later he was motivated to audition for his 5th grade
talent show and to his suprise he was the hit of the show. Gabriel's
silly voices and characters left the audience in stitches and
his dream of becoming a comedian was born. Eleven years later
a friend of his pushed a very scared Gabriel Iglesias back onto
a stage for the first time in over a decade. April 10th of 2005
will mark the eight-year anniversary of the day Gabriel made his
dream of becoming a comedian a reality.
"I get
my material from things that happen every day," he says,
using his 10-year high school reunion as an example. "I had
too much to drink and I made an ass of myself. When they asked
'Who has been on TV?,' one of the girls handed me a mic. I said,
'I see three or four girls who turned me down in high school.
But you know what? You girls got fat and now I drive a Hummer.'
One of the girls tells me, 'You're fat too!' And I said, 'I was
always fat. I kept my figure, why couldn't you?' It was the conversation
of the night. I don't use writers. I use real life."
In his debut
CD entitled, "Picachu… I See You," Gabriel talks
about hanging out with his buddies. He does not want to be labeled
as a 'Latino Comedian.' "It's just going to be funny. It
won't have an all-Latino audience. It's going to be modern. I
want to show people that Latinos are here, but we don't have to
be stereotypical."
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