Gabriel
Jesús Iglesias (born
July 15, 1976), also known as Fluffy, is an American stand-up
comedian and actor. He has produced a number of stand-up specials
for television outlets such as Comedy
Central and Netflix, including I'm Not Fat… I'm Fluffy and Hot
& Fluffy. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous live-action and
animated TV shows and films, including starring in the sitcom Mr. 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 paid comedians in the world. Iglesias
was born in San Diego, California, The youngest of six
children[ of Esther P. Mendez and Jesús Iglesias. He was raised
by his single mother. He is of Mexican heritage.
He grew up 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. Iglesias often references his weight in his comedy,
often saying, "Oh, I'm not fat, I'm fluffy", elaborating that there
were five levels of fatness, "Big", "Healthy",
"Husky", "Fluffy", and "DAMN!!!" He later added a
6th level, "Oh Hell No!!" In 2000, he 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. In 2011, Comedy
Central debuted Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand Up
Revolution, a standup showcase series which Iglesias produced
and hosted, running for three seasons before ending in 2014.Iglesias has
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.