George Lopez
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George Lopez (born April 23, 1961, in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian, actor, and star of the ABC sitcom, The George Lopez Show.
[edit] Early life and stand-up
He was born to a Mexican-American family and grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. He became a popular stand-up comedian, especially among the Latino community for his satirizing of Mexican-American life and culture in the United States. Much of his humor was drawn from the financial poverty of his upbringing and of the Latino community in general. He has released four albums of recorded stand-up comedy shows, including Right Now Right Now and Team Leader, which was nominated for a 2004 Grammy for Best Comedy Album [1]. He appeared in The Latin Kings of Comedy, where he was special guest along with other top Latino stand-up comedians. Alien Nation in 1996 was his first album released of his stand-up comedy shows. His current stand-up comedy DVD is Why You Crying?. He recently released "El Mas Chingon" in September of 2006.
[edit] Personal life
Lopez married Ana Serrano in 1993. Their daughter Pedra was born in 1995. In April 2005, he received a transplanted kidney from his wife [2]. An episode of The George Lopez Show was based on this. It is also mentioned briefly in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, where Larry David seeks inside information from George Lopez about the "kidney consortium."
His neighbor is actress and singer Hilary Duff [citation needed]
In a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, Lopez claimed that he and Carlos Mencia were involved in a physical altercation at a comedy club. Lopez alleged that Mencia appropriated 13 minutes of Lopez's material without permission for his HBO comedy special. [3]
