Gabriel Iglesias
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then we go to a showtime at the Apollo.
He goes out before me.
He bombed so hard.
He went out there.
Unfortunately, another Mexican dude, he went out there, and when he went out in front of the audience at the Apollo...
He went out there trying to be something he wasn't.
So he went out there and he's like, yo, yo, what's up?
How y'all feel?
But offstage, he's like, no hombre cabrón, estaba aquí el otro día.
Like, you're Speedy Gonzalez offstage and you're trying to be this person onstage.
And the audience smelled right through it.
They booed him off the stage.
So he comes off stage and he just got his head down.
And I remember as soon as he walked past me, Steve Harvey looked at me.
He looks at me and he goes, you next.
So then Kiki Shepard, who was the co-host in 1999, comes up to me.