SUPERSTAR COMEDIAN GEORGE LOPEZ MAKES TOUR STOP AT FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO ON SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 2023
OCT. 24, 2022 – INDIO, CA – George Lopez’s illustrious and multi-faceted career encompasses television, film, standup comedy, and late-night television. The comic legend will return to the Special Events Center at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show start at $59 and go on sale Friday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via phone (800) 827-2946 and online at www.FantasySpringsResort.com.
Like many African Americans comedians before him, George Lopez broke ground for latino comics by embracing his ethnicity and confronting racial stereotypes head on. He is currently performing stand up in venues across the country on his OMG Hi! Comedy Tour.
Lopez’s NBC comedy “Lopez vs Lopez” about a blue-collar family featuring his real-life daughter, Mayan Lopez is set to premiere Nov. 4, 2022.
His original comedy special “We’ll Do It For Half” for Netflix premiered globally in the summer of 2020. Prior to that, Lopez joined Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, and Cedric the Entertainer on stage for “The Comedy Get Down” which inspired a scripted comedy series based on the tour for BET. In 2017, Lopez completed a nationwide tour for “The Wall World.” Lopez has four HBO specials to his credit: “The Wall” (2017), “It’s Not Me, It’s You” (2012), “Tall, Dark and Chicano” (2009) which was also Grammy nominated for Best Comedy Album, and “America’s Mexican” (2007).
He performed as part of HBO and TBS’s “Comic Relief 2006.” His acclaimed comedy concert, “Why You Crying?” debuted on Showtime in 2004. He released his third standup CD, “El Mas Chingon,” in 2006, which also earned Lopez his second Grammy nomination in the category of Best Comedy Album. In 2004, he was nominated for a Grammy in the same category for his CD “Team Leader.”
On television, Lopez produced and starred in “Lopez,” a semi-autobiographical single camera sitcom for two seasons on TV Land. The series explored his struggle between two worlds and the crises that are often of his own making. In 2014, Lopez co-created and starred in the multi-camera ensemble comedy “Saint George” for FX. He hosted TBS’ inaugural late night talk show, “Lopez Tonight,” for two seasons. It represented Lopez’s return to series television after co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in Warner Bros. Television’s groundbreaking hit television sitcom “George Lopez,” which ran for six seasons on ABC. He has hosted the Latin Grammy Awards twice and co-hosted the Emmy Awards in 2003.
In film, Lopez most recently starred in “Walking with Herb” opposite Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. The faith-based story was inspired by Joe S. Bullock’s novel of the same name. He appeared in IFC Films’ modern-day Western “No Man’s Land.” Other feature films include “The Tax Collector”, “El Chicano” the box-office romantic comedy hit “Valentine’s Day” directed by Garry Marshall, “River Runs Red,” “Swing Vote,” “The Spy Next Door,” and “The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl.”
He also starred in and produced the inspirational drama, “Spare Parts,” based on a true story about four undocumented Mexican-American teenagers from Phoenix who team up to build an underwater robot that wins the national robotics competition.
An icon and advocate for Latinos’ move into the mainstream, Lopez was the focus of the award-winning documentary “Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Drea.” Lopez was also the voice for a series of characters in a string of animated blockbuster films including Zook in “Gnome Alone,” Rafael in “Rio” and “Rio 2,” and “The Beverly Hills Chihuahua” series.
In May 2004, Lopez’s autobiography, “Why You Crying?” entered The New York Times Bestsellers Top 20 List. The book was co-written by Emmy winning writer and sportscaster Arme Keteyian. Lopez released his second memoir in 2013, “I’m Not Gonna Lie And Other Lies You Tell When You Turn 50.”
In 2005, Time Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America and the Harris Poll named him one of the Top Ten FavoriteTelevision Personalities. Lopez received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.
Tickets for George Lopez start at $59 and go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via phone (800) 827-2694 and online at www.fantasyspringsresort.com.
