Gabriel Iglesias

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.

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.