Gabriel Iglesias

I didn't know what to expect.

So when I went out there and I did the characters and the voices and they're just applauding and this and that, and then

At the end, when I said, thank you, good night, and people started standing up and they're applauding.

And I'm like, I didn't know that this, that that's like that.

I didn't realize at that moment that audience understood what they were watching.

And I don't want to sound arrogant, but they, the crowd knew what I was doing before I knew what I was doing.

And in hindsight, because I've been back to my elementary school, I've been back to that theater, I've been back to that room, and I realized like, wow, that moment, like who knew?

You were hooked.

I was very much hooked.

I was very hooked.

I remember sitting at home with my friend watching Deaf Comedy Jam on Saturday nights.

And we would just, because that was the only comedy or that or BET's Comedy View.

BET's Comedy View and Def Comedy Jam was what I would watch growing up.

That's what I understood.

That's what I gravitated towards.

There was no shows.

To showcase or feature Latinos, Mexicans, people that, like, this was the closest thing.

This was the closest thing because it wasn't an evening at the improv.

It wasn't, you know, any of these other shows that were out there.

It was very, very much like close to me.