Sean Sullivan was the general manager of Pasadena, California’s famed Ice House Comedy Club for 22 years, during which time he witnessed the rise of Gabriel Iglesias, alongside so many other comics…
Sean Sullivan was the general manager of Pasadena, California’s famed Ice House Comedy Club for 22 years, during which time he witnessed the rise of, alongside so many other comics who were regulars on the Ice House stage. Now the director of operations for the Improv, Sullivan recalls his long friendship with Iglesias, and what it meant to see him graduate to the biggest stages in the world.
“He had started getting booked all over the place, and getting booked on our Latino show that we had, and he just started to write more and more. And really the way he went from doing sets to hosting shows to selling out shows, it felt like overnight. From the time I met him to when I started to see him start to grow was really so quick. He was on a TV show on Galavisión called ‘Que Locos!’ that we filmed at the Ice House.
“One of my favorite sets that he did at the Ice House was a bit he did with Armando Cosio, who is a great stand-up comic and an old friend of all of ours. They did this skit about ‘when a Latino wins the lottery’; it’s the Powerball drawing, where on Saturday night they would spin the big wheel. Gabe is up there with kind of an Alex Trebek announcer voice, and he brings on Armando to spin the wheel.
“When he did his first special, in El Paso, that was pretty incredible. I’ll never forget it: I flew out there, and I was hanging out after the show with Martin [Moreno] and Alfred [Robles], and there was a giant line for the merch table and a huge line for a meet-and-greet, and I swear every single person in that theater stayed to meet him. I remember going, ‘oh, this is gonna be ridiculous.’ And then I remember when he sold out L.A. Live. And then started doing the arena shows all over.
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