Late night goes Latin with George Lopez

[underpants]

http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/968140.html

Finally, a late-night TV show just for South Florida! ''We're gonna have a Castro death-watch clock in the corner of the screen,'' promises George Lopez of his new TBS talk show. ``It'll be part of Castro Week on TBS. And I plan to do the show one day from Hialeah Auditorium, and I'll have KC and the Sunshine Band doing the music.''

''For whatever reason, I have the ability to connect with people regardless of color or age,'' says the comedian, who leveraged a wildly successful stand-up career into George Lopez, a sitcom that ran on ABC from 2002-07 and lives on in syndication and on the cable network Nickelodeon. ``This opportunity allows me to go after an audience that's not being serviced on late-night: young Latinos, young black people. There's a hybrid America now, and this will be a hybrid show . . . I'm not a white male, and I look like the people who are looking at TV.''

''We're going to have a segment called Celebrity Car-Stripping,'' Lopez promises. ``It'll be two celebrities. One will be Eva Longoria -- we're going to have to give her a Mini Cooper because she's tiny. And the other will be Jennifer Aniston. They'll strip cars and see who can sell them for parts the fastest.''

It's a little surprising to hear that Lopez is returning to television, given his explosive comments when ABC canceled his show. Enraged that the network was not only keeping lower-rated sitcoms but adding Cavemen, a show based on insurance commercials, he exploded: ``So a Chicano can't be on TV but a caveman can? . . . TV just became really, really white again.''

Lopez says he wouldn't have returned for another scripted series.

''This is not a sitcom,'' he says. ``I wouldn't have done it if they offered me a sitcom. . . . I loved network TV, I grew up with sitcoms, I loved sitcoms, but after the way my show was treated by ABC, never again. They moved us five or six times in five years, and we still built an audience, and they still canceled us. Listen, you know how they say that if you know how they make hot dogs, it makes you not want to eat a hot dog again? Well, I know how how they make sitcoms, and it makes me not want to make a sitcom again.''

[Taverner]

1. What?? You mean he's not doing the whole show in Latin???

:P

[underpants]

2. No

someone already has the midnight Latin slot filled up
O8)

[Taverner]

3. Ah but they usually only have one guest on that show

And you can never see him anyway :P

[KamaAina]

5. Actually, I think he's doing it in Mexican

:P

[Odin2005]

7. Ya know, that would be awesome, actually.

I've listened to recordings of Latin spoken with what the pronunciation is thought to have been at the time of Caesar and Cicero and it surprised me, it has a nasal quality resembling Portuguese and it's short I, E, U, and O are very similar to English's, the vowels in bit, bet, put, and bought.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. George fucking Lopez.

Jesus, what a hack.

[lame54]

6. he is a GREAT stand-up

[ACTION BASTARD]

8. He lasts less than 3 months before he get yanked.

George "Fucking" Lopez is like a neutered Carlso "Stolen" Mencia, but without stealing other people's material though.

Epic Failure.

[ACTION BASTARD]

9. Oh look I double posted. How delightful.