♪ - mmm! wow, that's amazing. so how did you get started in comedy, man? as a young man, how did that happen for you? - i think, you know, i'm an only child and, you know, i wasn't raised with my mother and i never knew my father, my grandmother had six kids. a very dysfunct-- very disconnected. it's a disconnected family. my grandfather that raised me was not my biological grandfather. - oh, wow. look at that. - so television--i needed it. - yeah, yeah. - there's no way i could've survived without it. - it was a stand-in for family, for parents, for everybody. - a stand-in for--yeah. and then you gravitate towards the things that you like, you know. - what did you like? - "the tonight show." - yeah, yeah, johnny carson. - i liked, you know, "chico and the man." - oh, yeah, freddie prinze. - "sanford and son." - yeah. i mean, obviously, freddie prinze, he is an important icon for any latin performer, any latin comedian. freddie prinze was their first, and he let you know that you can possibly do this. for young performers like george and myself, it was so inspiring to see freddie prinze on "chico and the man"