I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.

By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.