Writting 2

Carlos Baires
9/10/09
Writing Two

George Lopez

George Lopez is a Chicano (Mexican-American) born in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. He was abandoned by his mother at the age of 10 and by his father as an infant. He was raised by his maternal Grandmother, Benita Gay Gutierrez, a factory worker, and his step-grandfather Refugio Gutierrez, a construction worker. In 1993 George married Ann Serrano and they had a son, Max Lopez. Even thou George had a hard childhood he is now a great comedian and father, because he makes people laugh all the time and he always takes care of his kids no matter what they go through
George’s career started in 2000. After performing in several stand-up comedy shows, he was approach by actress Sandra Bullock and she proposed to him if he would like to produce and star in a comedy. Sandra proposed the offer to him after seeing the lack of Hispanic-oriented sitcoms on American television that starred Hispanics without being exclusive about the Hispanic community like focusing on Hispanics but showing him as a Hispanic-American living in this country and what he goes thru. After ABC was being criticized by Hispanic-American groups for not having many Hispanics on their television shows they quickly picked up the show in 2002. The show aired from 2002-2007. Even though they are not making anymore shows they are still showing the re-runs on different television channels.
The show is mainly about his life, how he takes care of his family, what the things they go through, especially the hardships of growing up as a Hispanic with dyslexia taking care of 2 kids. It also focuses a lot on jokes he tells about the Hispanic community like when he makes fun of Hispanics eating mostly beans and rice and how they cross the border. The shows also bases about the jokes his family does and what his mother has put him through .The show also teaches life lessons on how to manage a family with different situations. One is putting his daughter to college with many debts and bills to pay while paying the college tuition. Another is dealing with his mother who is always drinking and not caring about anything that happens around her just focusing on her self.
George Lopez has gone thru a lot growing up to being the famous person he is now. In 2004 he was diagnose with a genetic condition which deteriorates his kidneys. Doctors told him that he required a transplant. He postponed the surgery until after finishing the 4th season of his show so not to hurt the 170 people that work on it. After the show ended his wife donated a kidney. The transplant was successful, but he lost a lot of weight due to the transplant. A year after his surgery his son was also diagnosed with the same illness and now he has to go through the same as his father.
George Lopez is a great humanitarian for had he has helped his own community. He also has his own charity called The George & Ann Lopez-Richie Alarcon CARE Foundation which help people in California that have troubles with economy. He has also received the Manny Mota Foundation spirit award and was named Honorary Mayor of Los Angeles for his extensive fundraising efforts benefiting the earthquakes victims in El Salvador and Guatemala. He also received the 2004 artist of the year and humanitarian award by Harvard University for his artistic work and charitable endeavors.
George Lopez is a great person in the community and a famous comedian. He has had many influences in his life that brought him to where he is now. He works very hard to earn all those recognitions and to help anyone that he can. Now George Lopez is about to have his own late night talk show On TBS. He is very happy about that because after being of the television shows for 2 years he is going to be back on and keep helping the community and making everyone laugh like he always do.