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Gilbert Esquivel won his first awards in junior high school, for
Funniest Boy and Biggest Flirt. He applies these attributes in
his comedy to this day. "I make the audience laugh, then I flirt
with the person that hired me so I can get paid."
Gilbert previously
crossed the country with his parents working in the fields. Now
he travels the country doing jokes in comedy clubs, churches,
prisons, colleges, theaters and even Las Vegas.
It all started
one night when he visited a comedy club in Los Angeles. A comedian
tried picking on Gilbert who was seated in the front...Bad Move!
After receiving a good ole' fashion ghetto spanking, the comedian
backed off and Gilbert was invited on stage to tell a joke and
stole the show. He was then asked back the following week. Silly
Gil caught the comedy bug and the rest is history.
Gilbert won
his first comedy competition just one year into his stand-up career
at the world famous Ice House in Pasadena, Ca. and has been seen
on many television shows including Galavision's "Que Locos" as
well as being one of the first Latino semi-finalists on BET's
"Comicview."
His comedy
influences were, Freddy Prinze, Paul Rodriguez and Richard Pryor.
Gilbert's
goal is to someday use humor to help encourage, motivate and make
changes in people's lives'.
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