Gabriel Iglesias
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Podcast Appearances
Like earlier I said, I did a school talent show, went up on stage, and I started doing these impressions.
So as a 10-year-old, think of a 10-year-old doing impressions of Mickey Mouse, Ronald Reagan, Pee Wee Herman, who was in his prime at that time.
And so when I went up on stage to do this show, I didn't really understand what stand-up comedy was.
I'm a 10-year-old kid, and I just did impressions.
But the impressions were so close that the people were like, oh, my God, this 10-year-old kid is nailing these impressions.
So I'm up there doing, you know, freaking Pee Wee Herman.
You know, like a 10-year-old, right now it looked weird, but a 10-year-old doing that is like phenomenal.
And then Ronald Reagan, well, Nancy, basically we have, you know.
So a 10-year-old doing that was like, and then I did Bill Cosby.
I won't do the impression now because, yeah.
But at 10 years old, I was killing.
And so it was one of those things where like, all right.
And you hooked.
I remember my mom, my brother, and my sister-in-law being in the audience.
It was only the three of them in the crowd.
And then when I went out there and I did the impressions in the crowd, they just applauded.
And I didn't know what the reaction was supposed to be.
I didn't know, are they supposed to laugh?