Name: Gabriel Iglesias' Journey to Playing Dodgers Stadium
Uploaded: 2023-06-22T17:12:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gabriel Iglesias' Journey to Playing Dodgers Stadium' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gabriel Iglesias' Journey to Playing Dodgers Stadium' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience and to feel that energy of people wanting you to
succeed wanting you to do good you know people that were there for for the ride
back at the ice house you know 20 some odd years ago look at all and so yeah
that is insane that's insane it was it was a beautiful moment I was choked up
in the first 30 seconds walking out there because it just kept cheering like
like you know and then I said we did it and it was just it was over after that
so it was a big emotional you know show for me on Netflix it was an hour and
almost two hours but the actual night I was on stage for over three Wow and
they
could not get me off that stage because then I broke it broke out a bottle of
tequila and then I turned it into a big quinceanera is what I did at the end
and I
got fined by Dodger Stadium for going over the time that's hilarious if you run
the
light of the club it's all right come on maybe you mess up how much they fine
you
well you don't have to say it was over a hundred oh Jesus Christ Dodgers come
on
guys stop being cunts is that like operating costs like what is that well
you got to figure all the costs that go into like you know the right union the
the staff I mean there's so many people that were worth it though yes I do it
all
over again it was the greatest night of my life and so happy to pay the fine
that's amazing that's when I saw Bill Burr do Fenway Park had similar sort of
situation you know like holy shit and to do it in your hometown yeah that's the
best part I think it's always harder to get love at home you know that's why
you
go out on the road and you do your thing and I think that getting that love at
home like I never got to perform at a comedy club at home until I became
successful on the road I didn't get the laugh factories or the comedy stores or
the
improvs until I went out and did that doesn't make sense though why why would
that be true were you hanging around you got to figure 20 some odd years ago
you
know maybe they had a Latino night you know you had to really know somebody
somebody had to really vouch for you or you you just it was weird I most of my
shows were at bars so what year did you start I started in 97 97 so most of
those
years you're hopping around doing bars one nighters and stuff like that oh so-and-so
has a room so-and-so has a room you know but ideas took me to a lot of those
places oh yeah Joey Diaz would tell you come on motherfucker you want to go to
the
real place he would take you to some Chinese restaurant in the middle of
nowhere it's run by Mexican people it was amazing Joey you want to go by would
spend his weekends he would go to all these fucking crazy shows but he had a
philosophy behind it he was like you know I want to go everywhere I want to go
everywhere I want to get in front of these fucking momos I want to go down to
the east side and rock those motherfuckers he was just like he wanted to do
all kinds of different shows like just to like feel it out you know and I think
he's right they're like those dingy bar shows there's something about those
shows
that teach it a little extra it's humbling yeah the cool part was is that I
was used to performing in places like that before I actually got an audience
that
was willing to just be quiet and listen yes so I felt like oh wow that was hard
you
know because you have to come out the gate swinging to get people in a bar
people
that are focused on the game focused on trying to hook up having a drink trying
to wait you know waiting for somebody there's all kinds of different things
happening and so the fact that you know to be able to go out there and get
their
attention yeah you know that that that was like a look it was school yeah it is
cool
it is cool it's a school that no one is gonna give you a lesson plan you got to
kind of do it all yourself and you got to learn from the other people that are
doing it
like Joey but it's like I did the same thing in Boston we mostly we got road
gigs because those are the ones that you know they would pay you to drive for
two
hours and do some you know 40 minutes in front of a bunch of crazy people and
you're excited to do oh my god yeah it was amazing just the fact that you were
making money doing comedy was amazing and you're learning how to do it you're
learning how to do it the hard way and restaurants and bars and pubs and just
yeah weird little outdoor venues and there was no social media back then no
YouTube
no TikTok video clips no nothing you could post you just had to go out and but
honestly that's great because that that gave you this chance to first of all
know
you really wanted it because if you were gonna really gonna grind it out every
night going all these weird shitty places for no money for years for years you're
not making any money you got to be committed to that because a lot of people
they got half one foot in one foot out they have one good set and they're like
you
know maybe I'll give comedy a try but guys like you and guys like me we're out
there every fucking night night I knew that with time money would come as long
as I stuck it out you know I was in a very cush position when I started doing
stand-up so it was it was a little you know challenging to say goodbye to
security you know I had I had a great gig selling cell phones I was making
about
5k a month you know and in 1997 you know working in sales making that I've
never
had insurance I had you know a nice little PPO plan couldn't you work there
during the day I did for how long I did I lasted about a year because I found
out
that I couldn't just do my job and then go do shows at night and then go home
you
couldn't go home you had to stay out we had to wind up at a Denny's you had to
wind up at some freaking taco shop or whatever at two three o'clock in the
morning talking to other comics because that was the only other way you were
gonna find out about another show you couldn't send a tweet you couldn't send a
text because you didn't have that as an option you had to talk to people right
hey oh so-and-so has a room oh really what's okay give me that number and you
had to learn to write numbers and save numbers and information and learn how to
follow up hey what do you think about you know and then yeah yeah can you vouch
for
me that meant a lot back then someone calling on your behalf a so-and-so's got
a
tight ten yeah it's huge you know that's huge so staying out late at night
coming
home at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning and then having to be up at 7:00 to go to
my
9:00 to 5:00 it fortunately I was young and I was able to hang for about a year
and
then I just couldn't I was falling asleep at work and I got caught I got caught
you
know I was working inside of a little kiosk selling cell phones and one time I
just kind of let me do some inventory here on the floor and then I guess I was
snoring and somebody caught oh my god oh my god that's a beautiful story though
yeah that's an American dream and I thought that because I had done a couple
of television shows and I saw the money that I could make doing stand-up at
that
time I said oh well and you start doing the math the delusional math well if I
get one of these a month and I do this and this and this I only need this much
to pay
my rent this much to pay my car note I'll be I'm gonna be fine and I quit my
day job and I got evicted from my apartment because I ran out of money so
fast they came after my car the repo guy was looking for the car I got evicted
I
went to go sleep on my sister's couch it was it was one of those