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George Lopez (born April 23, 1961 in Mission
Hills, California) is a Hispanic American|Latino
American comedian, actor and entertainer and star
of a self-titled, American Broadcasting
Corporation|ABC Situation comedy|sitcom, The
George Lopez Show.

Lopez grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los
Angeles, California.  He became a popular stand-up
comedian, especially among the Latino community
for his satirizing of Latin-American life and
culture in the United States.  Much of his humor
was drawn from the financial poverty of his
upbringing and of the Latino community in general.

In 2000, after several years of performing
stand-up comedy, Lopez was approached by actress
Sandra Bullock for Lopez to produce and star in a
comedy.  Bullock was concerned about the lack of
Latino-oriented sitcoms on American television and
pushed to get a sitcom on television that starred
Latinos but wasn't exclusively about the Hispanic
American community.  ABC, who had been criticized
by Latin-American groups for lack of Latinos on
their television shows quickly picked up the
television series, which began airing in 2002,
aired in ABC's TGIF (ABC)|TGIF lineup in
2003-2004, and is now shown on ABC at 8:30 (North
American Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern Time)
on Tuesday nights.

In addition, Lopez performed in Real Women Have
Curves, which was featured in the 2002 Sundance
Film Festival (and later aired to much acclaim on
Home Box Office|HBO), and The Adventures of Shark
Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D in 2005.

Lopez suffers from a genetic defect which causes
his kidneys to malfunction.  In April of 2005, he
received a transplanted kidney from his wife, Ann.

Lopez also appeared in July 3 episode of Punk'd,
after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher and Lopez's
family while his home is getting destroyed because
most of the buildings has been built without a
permit.

==External links==
* http://www.georgelopez.com/ Official web site
* imdb name|id=0520064|name=George Lopez
*
http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/georg
elopez.htm George and Ann Lopez
* http://www.krismartinez.com/ Pictures of George
Lopez at The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, Ca