Gabriel Iglesias

How many people are going to see this clip?

How many people are going to see this show?

How many people are going to get what I'm doing right now?

A lot of times the comics get wrapped up more in the money.

And I feel like the best advice someone told me early on was don't worry about the money.

Work on your craft.

The money will come.

And I still feel like that still is the thing.

If you're more focused on the money, then you don't really give a about what the thing that is you're doing.

It was Comic View, yeah.

It was Comic View.

Def Jam was a lot more challenging to get into.

Unfortunately, I never got to perform on Def Jam.

I wish I did.

I had a lot of friends that got to do Def Jam, but I never got that opportunity.

I will tell you the opportunity I did get though.

The first time I performed in New York, first time I performed in New York, was on It's Showtime at the Apollo.

And for those of you that don't know, It's Showtime at the Apollo,

was the most, I don't think there's a room or a venue or a show that was more challenging than its show time at the Apollo because its show time at the Apollo was one of those places where, man, if you even flinched and felt like you were not supposed to be there, the audience would know.

There's a show called American Idol.