History Creator / GabrielIglesias

-->For those who don't know, I ''used'' to say that there were five levels of fatness--the original five are 'big', 'healthy', 'husky', 'fluffy', and 'DAYUM!'". The reason I said "I ''used'' to say there were five", is because now there are ''six''. [[UpToEleven People asked, what could be bigger than 'Daaayum!'?]] The new level is called 'OH, ''HELL'' NO!'

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In another instance with a policeman, he was pulled over for speeding. The policeman walked over, and since he usually gets off easy if he can make a cop laugh, he turned on his ''Film/BadBoysII'' CD and blared the Series/{{COPS}} theme song. The policeman "damn near pissed himself".

* RetroactiveWish: In one of his first routines, Gabriel talked about how much he loved chocolate cake; since then, people have brought him chocolate cake when they go to his shows. This caused one of his friends to ask, "Why didn't you do a joke about hookers?" and his girlfriend's son to say, "You should say you ''love'' {{Transformers}}."

* FormerlyFat: While still "Fluffy," he lost a lot of weight after gaining type 2 diabetes and was told he had merely a few years to live. Something of a subversion of a FunnyAneurysmMoment, as he talked in previous specials about how his weight never bothered him and he didn't want to be miserable exercising. His healthier lifestyle was for his friends, family and fans, and not his own vanity. As a result he turned a softer body type more into StoutStrength.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Once he and a friend were riding a log flume ride at an amusement park, and his friend dared him to flash the camera that takes pictures as they go downhill. So they both lifted up their shirts, and are then pulled aside by security as they exited the ride. They think they're busted, until the security guard asks them if they "know where these two women went." Apparently:

* FormerlyFat: While still "Fluffy," he lost a lot of weight after gaining type 2 diabetes and was told he had merely a few years to live. Something of a subversion of a FunnyAneurysmMoment, as he talked in previous specials about how his weight never bothered him and he didn't want to be miserable exercising. His healthier lifestyle was for his friends, family and fans, and not his own vanity. As a result he turned a softer body type more into StouthStrength.

* FormerlyFat: While still "Fluffy," he lost a lot of weight after gaining type 2 diabetes and was told he had merely a few years to live. Something of a subversion of a FunnyAneurysmMoment, as he talked in previous specials about how his weight never bothered him and he didn't want to be miserable exercising. His healthier lifestyle was for his friends, family and fans, and not his own vanity.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: He confirmed as much about the actual Speedy Gonzales in an August 2021 interview with Stephen Colbert.
--> I've never seen Speedy as a bad character. He's Mexican and He's fast; where I come from, that's job security.

* HulaAndLuaus[=/=]AlohaHawaii: He recounts being mistaken for Hawaiian constantly (due to his Hawaiian shirt and size). He was perplexed and annoyed by people asking this... until he actually ''went'' to Hawaii and found out why (they all, quote, "look like swollen Mexicans" and are fluffy like him!)

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Hilariously subverted in one story he tells about him and his girlfriend getting [=iPhone=]s, whereupon they started texting each other all the time because it's more convenient for Gabriel to reply. One night he gets drunk at a place called Cinebar; when his girlfriend asks, Gabe insists on telling the truth against Martin's advice. When his girlfriend's reply isn't angry and ends with "tell Martin I said hi", Gabriel assumes this trope and wonders what the hell she's up to. The subversion comes in when he checks his previous message; autocorrect didn't recognize "Cinebar" and read it as "[[BigEater Cinnabon]]".

* BilingualBonus: Moves seamlessly between English and Spanish in his shows.

* HappilyMarried: His girlfriend mentioned in his second DVD special is now his wife. The fact that, by his 2013 special he only had seven stories about her, indicates how jolly the marriage is in general.

He played a supporting role in ''Film/MagicMike'' and its sequel ''Magic Mike XXL'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JrNLnjFv0s details of which he discussed in]] the ''Aloha Fluffy'' special). He also [[TheCameo cameo-ed]] as a Dominican ganster in ''{{Series/Narcos}}'' [whose [[DeadStarWalking infamous fate]] was even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7hkM8M16A officially memorialized]] by the {{Creator/Netflix}} {{Website/YouTube}} page). Subsequently, he had a recurring appearance on the short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} sitcom ''Series/{{Cristela}}''.

Among other roles (including a supporting role in ''Film/MagicMike'' and its sequel ''Magic Mike XXL'', as well as a cameo as a Dominican ganster in {{Series/Narcos}} [whose [[DeadStarWalking infamous fate]] was even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7hkM8M16A officially memorialized]] by the {{Creator/Netflix}} {{Website/YouTube}} page) he had a recurring appearance on the short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} sitcom ''Series/{{Cristela}}'',

Among other roles (including a supporting role in Film/MagicMike and its sequel Film/MagicMikeXXL, as well as a cameo as a Dominican ganster in {{Series/Narcos}} [whose [[DeadStarWalking infamous fate]] was even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7hkM8M16A officially memorialized]] by the {{Creator/Netflix}} {{Creator/YouTube}} page) he had a recurring appearance on the short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} sitcom ''Series/{{Cristela}}'',

Among other roles, he had a recurring appearance on the short-lived Creator/{{ABC}} sitcom ''Series/{{Cristela}}'',

** One show took place in North California, so he and Martin decide to drive there so Gabriel doesn't have to pay for an extra seat on the plane[[note]] This was before the weight loss, so no points for guessing why...[[/note]]. On the way, they pass through Fresno, where fellow comedian G Reilley happens to be performing. Long story short: the aforementioned Racist Gift Basket.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: During the traffic stop story, Gabriel and his buddies manage to get off scot-free after doing over ''100'' on the freeway by making the cop laugh... which should have gotten them tossed in jail, let alone just a citation ticket. He even says, "I don't know what possessed me to look at [the California highway patrolman] and ask, 'Why?'"

'''Gabriel:''' I didn't order-\\

* BrokeTheRatingScale: His "I'm fluffy" CatchPhrase is due to having a list terms describing a scale of being fat: big, healthy, husky, fluffy and DAMN! He eventually met a guy that made him add a new size, Oh Hell No! The guy was 6'8, 600 pounds and upset he didn't have a t-shirt in his size, and his shirts went up to XXXXXL.