Gabriel Iglesias

Iglesias on Netflix, playing Tobias in the 2012 movie Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, and providing the voice of Speedy Gonzales in Space Jam: A New Legacy. He was also the host of the shows Stand Up Revolution on Comedy Central and Fluffy's Food Adventures on Fuse. In 2018, Iglesias was one of the top 10 highest-paid comedians in the world.

• Name — Gabriel Iglesias • Other Names — Fluffy • Birth Name — Gabriel Jesús Iglesias • Birthplace — San Diego, California, U.S. • Born — 15 July 1976 • Occupation — * Comedian • actor • Years Active — 1997–present • Website — fluffyguy.com

Iglesias was born July 15, 1976, in San Diego, California, to Esther P. Mendez and Jesús Iglesias. His mother Esther raised him as a single mother. He is of Mexican heritage. He lived in Riverside, Corona, Santa Ana, Baldwin Park, and Compton before settling in Section 8 low-income housing in Long Beach, where Iglesias spent most of his youth.

Iglesias worked for a cell phone company in Los Angeles and in 1997 went into comedy full-time, though it resulted in him being evicted from his home and losing his car. In 2000, Iglesias appeared in the sixth season of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, co-starring with Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon. Iglesias was a contestant on the fourth season of reality TV series Last Comic Standing in 2006, surviving elimination to become one of the final eight comics. He was disqualified at that point for having used a smuggled BlackBerry to communicate with family and friends, which violated the rules of the show. In 2007, Iglesias voiced an entire Mexican family in "Padre de Familia", a sixth season episode of the Fox TV animated comedy Family Guy. That same year, he began voicing a recurring set of identical twin characters on The Emperor's New School, a Disney animated series that he describes as his favorite voice work. • Illustration — Iglesias in November 2010 In 2011, Comedy Central debuted Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution, a stand-up series that Iglesias produced and hosted, running for three seasons before ending in 2014. Iglesias hosted/co-hosted six episodes of Equals Three, and played a strip club DJ and drug dealer in the 2012 film Magic Mike. Iglesias voiced Ned and Zed in the 2013 DisneyToon Studios film, Planes. He also voiced characters in the animated films The Nut Job (2014) and El Americano: The Movie (2016). Iglesias is featured in the reality series Fluffy Breaks Even, which premiered on Fuse on October 1, 2015. The show was renamed Fluffy's Food Adventures upon its third season renewal in January 2017. From 2019 to 2020, he played Gabe Iglesias, in Mr. Iglesias, a Netflix original series about a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. In 2021, he voiced the character of Speedy Gonzales in the film Space Jam: A New Legacy and Picchu in Maya and the Three. In 2022, Iglesias was the first comedian to sell out Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The concert was released to Netflix on October 18, 2022, as Stadium Fluffy. In 2025, Iglesias performed in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Comedy Festival, an event taking place from September 26th to October 9th. Iglesias performed on October 1st, the day before the seventh anniversary of the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. Joey Shea, Saudi Arabia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement that the Saudi government is using the comedy festival to whitewash its human rights abuses. Iglesias has performed in the region before, having spoken about performing in Saudi Arabia during his 2013 set "Aloha Fluffy: Live from Hawaii." On March 21, 2026 he and comedian Jo Koy co-hosted a comedy show at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. It was the largest crowd in history ever to see a stand-up comedy show. Iglesias appeared at the 52nd American Music Awards.

Since 2010, Iglesias has lived in Whittier, California. He was in a long-term relationship with Claudia Valdez, with whom he has a self-proclaimed stepson named Frankie whom he calls his son. According to a June 2020 People article, he and Valdez divorced in 2017, which led him to cancel some performances, and to quit drinking for two years. Despite the breakup, he still maintains a close relationship with Frankie, whom he helped raise.

In a 2024 interview with Neal Brennan, Iglesias stated that he did not grow up with a specific religion despite his family being originally Roman Catholic, since his mother held syncretist beliefs regarding religion—for example displaying crucifixes and images of the Virgin Mary alongside Buddha and Ganesh statues and wearing a Star of David necklace. He remained uncatechized and mostly uninvolved in organized religion during his upbringing, occasionally going to church on a friend's invite but ultimately shaping his moral framework based on his mother's guidance and personal experiences.

In The Fluffy Movie, Iglesias describes how at his heaviest, which he states was 445 lb, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and with his blood sugar spiking to over 300 mg/dl (16.6 mmol/L) regularly, was given two years to live by his doctor. He said the shock of being told this had prompted him to reevaluate how he took care of himself and explained that he decided to lose weight to ensure his continued presence in the lives of his family. Iglesias described the struggle to incorporate a healthier lifestyle, relating how he was told by a specialist that his heavy touring schedule precluded him from being a candidate for bariatric surgery, and how he instead resorted to weight-lifting, Diamond Dallas Page Yoga, and a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, which helped him shed over 100 lb. Iglesias has also struggled with depression and alcoholism, which he attributes partly to burnout from his heavy touring schedule. On July 15, 2021, his 45th birthday, he tested positive for COVID-19, and canceled his remaining shows at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts as well as the taping of his upcoming comedy special. In his 2022 TV special Gabriel Iglesias: Stadium Fluffy, Iglesias further detailed that he lost another 70 lb in 2020 due to the lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2000 — All That — Himself/Various characters — 13 episodes • 2002 — My Wife and Kids — Nabu — Episode: "Table for Too Many" • 2002–2003 — The USO Comedy Tour — Himself — Stand-up special; Episode unknown • 2003 — Comedy Central Presents — Himself — Stand-up special; season 7, episode 1 • 2006 — Last Comic Standing — Himself (contestant) — 4 episodes • 2006–2008 — Additional voices — Voice; 4 episodes • 2007 — Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy — Himself — Stand-up special • Family Guy — Mexican No. 5 — Voice; episode: "Padre de Familia" • 2009 — Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat... I'm Fluffy — Himself — Stand-up special • 2011-2012 — Equals Three — Himself (host) — 3 episodes • 2011–2014 — Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up Revolution — Himself (host) — 19 episodes; also creator, writer, executive producer • 2012 — Chicken/Krazy Klaus/Mr. Cash/Smash/Mr. Juicy Fun — Voice; 3 episodes • 2013 — Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy — Himself — Stand-up special • Key & Peele — Himself — Episode: "Joke Stealing" • 2014 — Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals — Professor Perez — Voice; television special • Gabriel Iglesias Presents Rick Gutierrez: I'm Not Mad. I'm Just a Parent — Himself — Television special • 2014–2015 — Cristela — Alberto — 13 episodes • 2015–2017 — Fluffy's Food Adventures — Himself (host) — 20 episodes; also creator, writer, executive producer • 2016 — Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade — Cholly Bear — Voice; television special • Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Sorry For What I Said While I Was Hungry — Himself — Stand-up special • 2017 — Narcos — Dominican Gangster — Episode: "The Cali KGB" • 2017–2019 — Funny You Should Ask — Himself — 35 episodes • 2018 — Modern Family — Jorge — Episode: "Daddy Issues" • 2019 — Gabriel Iglesias: One Show Fits All — Himself — Stand-up special • 2019–2020 — Mr. Iglesias — Gabe Iglesias — 21 episodes; also executive producer • 2020 — Unleashed — Himself (host) — 10 episodes; also executive producer • 2021 — Ridiculousness — Himself (guest) — Episode: "Gabriel Iglesias" • Monsters at Work — Gary — Voice; 2 episodes • Hell's Kitchen — Himself — Chef's table guest diner in the blue kitchen; episode: "More Than a Sticky Situation" • Maya and the Three — Picchu — Voice; 4 episodes • 2022 — Gabriel Iglesias: Stadium Fluffy — Himself — Stand-up special • StoryBots: Answer Time — Mr. Karate Guy — Episode: "Dizzy" • 2023 — The Santa Clauses — Kris Kringle — Main cast; season 2 • Barmageddon — Himself — Episode: "Gabriel Iglesias vs. Jelly Roll" • 2024 — WWE Rivals — Himself (host) — Season 4 • 2024 — Pupstruction — Felipe — Voice; episode: "The Friendliest Frog" • 2024–2025 — Primos — Tio Gustavo — Voice; recurring role • 2024–present — Everybody Still Hates Chris — Romeo — Voice; episode: "Everybody Still Hates Drew's Brother" • 2024 — American Dad! — Vicente — Voice; episode: "Touch the Sun: A Chimborazo Adventure" • 2025 — Gabriel Iglesias: Legend of Fluffy — Himself — Stand-up special • 2025 — Krapopolis — Pandosia — Voice; episode: "Mazed and Kingfused"

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