Yesterday, fluffyguy was presented with certificates from LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis, Councilman Gil Cedillo, Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, and Senator María Elena Durazo, celebrating the first of his two sold-out shows at Dodger Stadium.
Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias can remember the exact date and moment he made his stand-up comedy debut, even though it wasn’t planned. It was April 10, 1997, at the Golden Sails Hotel in his hometown of Long Beach, Calif. There was a bar with a stage that welcomed artists on a regular basis, but that particular night the emcee failed to show up.
It sounds like something out of “A Star Is Born,” almost too good to be true. But in many ways it also feels inevitable. Growing up a latchkey kid in Southern California and the youngest of six children, Iglesias has lost track of how many times he watched the VHS tape of “Eddie Murphy’s Raw,” along with concert tapes of comics such as Robin Williams and Sam Kinison.
Not content to simply sell out regular venues, Iglesias chose to become the first comedian to perform at Dodger Stadium with his “Fluffy on the Field” show, a part of Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival. His May 6 show sold out so fast, he actually added a second show on May 7, which sold out as well. Meloche was a promoter when he encountered Iglesias for the first time in 2003; they have been working together in some capacity since then.
But after he started comedy, Iglesias was desperate to give up his day job selling cell phones where, working on commission, he could make as much as $5,000 a month. When he finally quit, his roommate evicted him. He slept on his brother’s balcony and his sister’s couch or even in his car, but remained committed to comedy. A contractor he had met while selling phones set him up with a job digging ditches, and even offered to send him to school and put him on the track to being a contractor.
But he urges for civility on all points of view — most recently on display in his 2019 special “One Show Fits All” when discussing Dave, his longtime tour bus driver, whom Iglesias describes as looking like the word “’Murica!” After telling a story in which Dave closed a divider between him and the rest of the bus and joked: “I’m building a wall!” he says Dave followed it up with a text saying: “And you’re paying for...
To hear others tells it, the good-natured persona extends off stage as well. “His heart is in what he does,” says Blake. “He has always truly cared about his fans and he is in this for the long term. Gabriel is not afraid of taking chances and because he works as hard as he does, his chances almost always pay off immensely.”
Iglesias regularly interacts with his fans on social media and at shows. Alfred Robles regularly opens for Iglesias, including the Dodger Stadium shows, and met the comic for the first time in 2003 when he was working at a bar in Montebello, Calif. To hear Iglesias tell it, extending kindness and support isn’t part of a master plan — it’s just in his nature. He is endlessly grateful to the people who helped him out in his career. “You don’t just go from a comedy club to Dodger Stadium,” he notes.
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