Gabriel Iglesias

So I've never written anything out.

I cannot just sit.

And it's too structured for me.

So what I do is all my shows are recorded.

Audio.

Audio for every single show.

And one of my openers, he's really good at structuring.

And he helps me out whenever I do specials.

He'll break down the sets, time codes, so that when we go into editing, we present the editor with...

these are how long the bits are these are the time codes we want to take time off of you know so that the he's really structured and i appreciate that but me i can't do it yeah i can't sit and write up okay here's the premise and you know they teach the whole and you do the circle and then you do the line and then you're building on this premise i i just can't do it because it's work and i ate work

i hate work i want to have fun i'd rather go out on stage and just start venting and telling stories and whatever gets the laugh cool i keep whatever doesn't get the laugh that's where i start trimming i'll go back and listen all right there's this a minute gap where there's no laughter that's too long we gotta shorten that so yeah cut to the chase right and so i've done that over the years you will not find a single notebook a single thing where i wrote anything else that's wild to me that is fucking crazy i

I have a really good memory on stage.

Off stage, I can't find my fucking keys.

And so it's crazy that I can work like that.

I will use bullet points.

So like let's say I'm doing the Tonight Show.

All right, there's cue card or whatever.

I appreciate the bullet points.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?