{"id":4265,"date":"2026-07-24T21:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:37:33","slug":"gabriel-fluffy-iglesias-says-comedy-is-about-making-people-smile-making-people-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias Says Comedy Is About \u201cMaking People Smile, Making People Laugh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAward shows for comedians are often glorified roasts with lots of zingers and one-liners.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4263\">\u2018Lanterns\u2019 Trailer Reveals Sinestro and Its Manhunter Threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut they can have tender moments too, as when Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias, the first comic to sell out\u00a0Dodger Stadium, received the Generation Award at the Just For Laughs comedy festival with his trademark tough-love comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIf I can leave you with anything, it\u2019s do (comedy) because you love it. Don\u2019t expect to be paid. If you\u2019re looking to be paid, you\u2019re doing it for the wrong reason. Do it because it makes you feel good to be on stage in front of people, making people smile, making people laugh, making people forget, making people feel good,\u201d Iglesias told the MTelus audience in Montreal. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAnd if you do that well, you\u2019re going to drive a nice car one day. But don\u2019t be in a rush,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tOf course, there were sharp jabs elsewhere during the comedy awards show, including from host Tone Bell, who mentioned the newly-resurrected Just For Laughs was evidently diligent in balancing the books after the Montreal comedy festival emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI got here last night, and they\u2019re pushing me out in the morning,\u201d Bell said before introducing award winners. Canadian actress and comic Lisa Gilroy, when honored with rising comedy star of the year award, gave the ground rules on how to accept a comedy prize in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI fucking love being Canadian. I\u2019m really honored to receive this award,\u201d Gilroy said. \u201cAnd I make comedy for the same reason so many of us in this room make comedy, because we\u2019re deeply, deeply mentally ill, and nothing will ever fix that. Maybe this will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tChris Fleming, who went from YouTube sensation to hosting his\u00a0<em>Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace\u00a0<\/em>special, had his own rapid-fire barbs when receiving the comedy performance of the year trophy for his HBO special.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4261\">\u2018The Odyssey\u2019 Holding Strong for Big Second Weekend in $84.5M Range<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI do love it here in Montreal. It feels like the last place on Earth that will get driverless cars. My one note about Montreal, though, if I was an acting teacher, I\u2019d say the performance of French rings false. I don\u2019t buy it. There\u2019s an awareness of the audience that feels a lot like when Austin Butler played Elvis\u2026 I hear tepid laughs from the balcony,\u201d Fleming joked.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn other\u00a0prize-giving, Atsuko Okasuka, a viral comic with Hulu, HBO and an upcoming Netflix comedy special among her credits, took exception with the \u201cbreakout\u201d part of her tribute. \u201cI looked up the definition of \u2018to break out.\u2019 Dictionary.com said a violent and\/or forceful break from a restraining condition or situation. I didn\u2019t know I had it this bad, before this,\u201d Okasuka observed while grasping the breakout comedy star of the year trophy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cReally, as comedians, we\u2019re seen as the weirdos of the industry, the raccoons of Hollywood, basement dwellers of show business, and these are just some of the things I\u2019ve said about us. So imagine what other things other people might be saying \u2014 and still we rise,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn another emotional highpoint, Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias returned to the mainstage to introduce former Just For Laughs programming topper Bruce Hills\u00a0to receive the JFL Legacy Tribute Award. \u201cI\u2019m basically here because Dave Chappelle said no. Bill Burr said no. Kevin Hart said no. So in keeping with tradition, here\u2019s another Mexican doing a job nobody else wanted,\u201d Iglesias said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat\u2019s before he thanked Hills for giving him a career break when inviting him to appear at the Montreal comedy festival, as the comedy festival king did for so many others. \u201cSo many shows, so many years, so many opportunities that you\u2019ve given not only to myself, but to other comedians over the years, you\u2019ve always been kind. You\u2019ve always been so gracious,\u201d Iglesias added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen he came on stage after Chappelle, Hart and a slew of other comedy veterans thanked him via taped video tributes, Hills recalled 41 years earlier driving comedians around to comedy clubs after joining the fledgling festival at age 19. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cJerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard hated each other,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest lesson I learned over 39 years: success is never about one person. It\u2019s about you. It\u2019s about the comics, do you believe in the team you built, the people around you, to make you better?\u201d Hills insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4260\">Megan Moroney Has Read Your TikTok Comments and Doesn\u2019t Really Care What You Have to Say<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedians Lisa Gilroy, Chris Fleming and Atsuko Okasuka were also feted at the Montreal comedy festival awards show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2889,2890,2475,398],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-dave-chappelle","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-just-for-laughs","tag-kevin-hart"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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