Gabriel Iglesias

During that time, you got to figure there wasn't really any form of real representation for Latinos.

A lot of Latinos...

from what i remember were gravitated towards martin lawrence and martin we would watch martin martin was like a staple like oh my god this show's so good and i love the fact that we're talking about this now because i just met martin lawrence a week ago really i met martin lawrence a week ago and um i felt like you know it's rare for me to meet someone and geek the

out to the point where I'm like, oh shit, it felt weird for me to talk to him because I just wanted to tell him how impactful his show, his presence, what he did on Def Jam, what he did on his specials meant to me because it's like, ugh, like I remember watching his shows on the weekend and it's just like back when I was a kid and it was

It was so huge.

And so to meet him, I didn't want to be that overwhelming person that's like, ah, shit.

But I did.

I geeked out.

I geeked out.

Shannon, I geeked out hard.

I geeked out hard with him.

But yeah, we didn't really have somebody that we could gravitate towards and be like, this is our person.

This is who is, you know.

So for me, watching Dio Hugli.

doing Comic View, watching Martin Lawrence do Def Jam.

And it was always one of those things where it's like, okay, there's Martin Lawrence doing Def Jam on the weekends, and there's Dio Hugli doing Comic View during the week.

And it was one of those things where it's like, which one are you?

Are you Comic View?

Are you Comic View or are you Def Jam?

And you're like, ugh.