Gabriel Iglesias
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm the last person to say anything negative.
Kat was incredibly welcoming and inspiring early on.
But let me tell you, Showtime at the Apollo, 1999, the guy that went out before me was a comic that I went there with, and this was very uncomfortable because the comic that I went there with
We were sharing a hotel room, Shannon.
We were sharing a hotel room.
The idea was we're both going to New York for the first time.
We don't know what to expect.
It's expensive.
So we went in together to share a hotel room.
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?