Hey what's up you guys this is Gabriel
Iglesias
Oh my God it's Fluffy
Hell yeah it is
And I'm here hanging out
in San Diego California getting ready for my
Big show tonight. As you can see it's
really big
Uh, it's not really big... You know
what I mean
So anyways you guys
This weekend is the encore presentation
of my special Aloha Fluffy
On Comedy Central
Now... Comedy Central is only available in the
US
So for the rest of you worldwide
I want to give you guys a nice big sneak
peek
Of the... Of the special that is gonna be eventually available on DVD
Or if you hack it or however you get it
But I like to know that I'm... I'm giving this one to you guys to enjoy
So check this out
This is my story about
me going to Saudi Arabia
And you'll see, there's a surprise at the end
Cause I wasn't expecting this either
So enjoy and please share it
Have fun!
It's 23 minutes long so get ready
My agent calls me up
And he's says Gabe check it out
You're getting your request to perform
in the Middle East
I go really? Ok cool
Army? Navy? Marines? Air Force?
Who?
Actually, the request is coming from a prince
Run that by me again
A prince
I said... Purple Rain?
Not Prince
A prince
I said how do they know me?
I don't know but they say that they know you and they want to hire you
I go it sounds like a joke Matt
Trust me, it sounds legit
All right...
If it's legit, I'll tell you what
Give whoever a ridiculous figure
And let them know that they have to wire
the money today
Otherwise forget it
Four hours later...
Gabe!
What?
Ridiculous just called...
Are you serious?
I'm looking at the screen bro
They wired all of it
Next thing I know
Welcome aboard Saudi Arabian Airlines
17-hour flight you guys
From Detroit Michigan to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
And just so you guys know, I didn't go by
myself, ok?
I took some friends with me
Nobody from this show
For obvious reasons
Yeah man, the crew that I travel with
Everybody's hairy, big nose
Goatee, beard, crazy eyes
This...
Are you kidding me?
With all of us were like Osama bin Lopez, you know what I'm sayin?
You don't know what the hell we are
So I took two other friends
I took one friend, his name is Edwin San Juan
Who's Filipino
Works clean
Hell yeah...
And another buddy of mine named
Larry Omaha
Who's Native American, who also works clean and...
Alright
Hell yeah, sure
Hold on
I want to look at the camera
Hey Larry Omaha, Edwin San Juan, you guys have fans and they're here in Hawaii
Get your asses over here
Anyway, umm...
So we head to Riyadh
17-hour flight from Detroit
As soon as we get there...
They flew us there  first class by the
way, it was really nice
And the plane is pulling up to the gate and,  you know...
It's doing the whole you know...
And the tube is coming out to meet the
plane
As soon as the tube touches the plane
All of a sudden...
The door... On the
opposite side of the plane
Pops open
And a man in a suit gets on
And he walks over to the three of us
And he does this...
And I'm sitting there freaking out like
Oh my god, this is like the movies!
And they pulled us off the plane
And they escorted us to this area called
VIP baggage claim
And it sounds kind of
cra... VIP?
And I get there I realize oh
They're serving cookies and candy and
coffee
And there's leather sofas
And it's really nice
And there's nothing but
Middle Eastern businessmen there okay?
And they're all talking about me
I don't understand Arabic
But everyone in this room understands when someone's talking about you
The guy's looking at me and he's like...
I'm sorry but this...
Is universal
And apparently this is Arabic for
Damn!
So then this other guy walks over to me
And he's holding a sign
And the sign has my name on it
And he's really excited
He's like, it is you!
Come come. Come! It is you, come come, come, we go
And I went oh, ok cool. So we grab
our luggage
And we followed him outside to the curb
They have three Lincoln Navigator SUVs
waiting for us
There's three comedians, and there's
three cars
We're so paranoid that we're in the Middle East
We all get in one car
We're sitting in there
And we take off
We're heading towards downtown Riyadh ok?
Now all I know...
Up to this point about my experience is that
I've already been paid
My flight's been taken care of
And I have a point person
Who I'm supposed to meet at the airport
Who's not there
So I'm talking to the drivers
Excuse me sir, where's this guy?
It is ok, I take you to him... Is ok... Is ok is ok
Uh... ok...
And for me it's not okay, because
I researched Saudi Arabia
And you know...
You think the rules in Singapore are strict
The rules of Saudi Arabia are very, very different, ok?
And I don't want to offend anyone
And I want to make sure that I don't say the wrong thing
So I need to know, you know?
Some... Some... I need some info!
So I keep talking to the drivers
Um sir, would you mind helping
me with some questions?
Whatever you need, you ask. I tell you.
It's okay... It's okay, it's okay
Um...
I apologize in advance
If i come across rude, or disrespectful
Or ignorant but um...
How do you guys know about me here, in the middle east?
What do you mean how do we know?
Yeah, how do you know that I'm a comedian?
You have comedy central, or HBO... or Showtime?
What is that?
That's a no, that's what
that is... That's  a no
How do you know that I'm an entertainer?
Oh! Your videos!
YouTube!
My friend, Youtube
You're huge
You're the number two most famous
comedian in all of the Middle East
Number two
You're kidding...
I am NOT comedian, I don't
kid...
No...
I'm the number two most famous comedian in all of the Middle East?
Yes!
Who's number one?
Jeff
Dunham
Jeff Dunham is the number one comedian
in the Middle East?
You guys don't find him at all offensive?
Oh No...
I kill you!
When I heard that you guys
I was like you know what?
They get it...
They get it
So I'm like we're cool
We're sitting, we're driving
We're heading towards downtown
All of a sudden the driver...
Cuts the wheel really hard
And we get off the freeway
And now we're taking a side road,
going away from the city
And I'm like, ahem... Excuse me?
Where are we going?
We are going to the show
I go um... It says here that we're staying in the city
Yes you're staying in the city
But the show is somewhere else
That doesn't make sense...
Why would you have the show somewhere else?
How come you don't have it
in the city?
And then he broke it down...
My friend...
Here in Riyadh, it is very different ok?
Your type of entertainment is forbidden... In the city
There are people called
religious police that...
Hold up the traditions
They keep it so that it is very
traditional
It is not allowed, the social gathering
is a no no
We must go somewhere secret... In the desert
Alright um...
So how many people are you guys
expecting at the show?
It's a little between seven to eight hundred people
That many?
I told you... Number 2!
And sure enough you guys, we pull up to this racetrack
In the middle of the desert
And there's a... There's a giant tent set up next to it
And there's... There's 800
people, roughly
There for a comedy show
And as soon as we pull up...
As soon as we pull up
Radio's start popping out
And I keep hearing on all the radios
Fluffy...
Fluffy...
Fluffy...
All of a sudden, some guy runs up on the stage
And they
hand him a microphone
And he starts yelling to the crowd
I don't know what
he's saying
But I've seen enough hip hop to recognize a hype man
Oh yeah, he's out there...
And then I get the biggest introduction of my life
And nowwwww!
Direct from the United States of America!
Here he is!
Gabriel
Iglesias!
And the crowd starts going
Fluffy... Fluffy... Fluffy
And when I heard that...
I freaked out
I was like, oh my God, this is gonna be an amazing show
So I ran to the stage as fast as I could...
I'm not a runner...
But I booked it to the stage
you guys
Because I was so excited
And when I got to the front
It clicked...
That in Saudi Arabia...
They still have segregation
And I didn't find out till the last second...
Because I saw a
line going down the middle
And on one side
Men...
Other side
Women
And all the women in the front row
Were covered, from head to toe
All I saw...
Was this
Oh yeah
I had no idea
I was performing for Assassin's Creed
I didn't know that...
I didn't know...
It threw me off so bad
Gabriel Iglesias!
Fluffy...
Hey what's going on everybody, how you...
I froze!
I've been doing this for 15
years
I don't freeze, but that threw me off so bad
I didn't know what to say...
All of a sudden, men start yelling my
jokes at me
My friend, do the donkey
Do the donkey!
Hey chocolate cake!
Chocolate cake!
A guy in
the front...
Make fun of me!
Hell no...
And the people started laughing
The women were laughing just as hard as
the men, you know?
Granted, some of them I couldn't see
But for the most part it's like...
And I'm not trying to be disrespectful, you know?
They're laughing... 
Moving and laughing
I even had fun with one of the girls
I said Oh, I saw your neck
She said, you're going to get me in trouble
The Saudis had such an amazing sense of
humor...
They were laughing and carrying on
And I had no idea that they were going to be like that
And then after the show
I got a chance to meet some of the
locals
And one guy was almost in tears
He was so emotional...
He walks up to me
And he's just like
I cannot believe... That I am standing here in front of you
Mister Fluffy
Thank you
Please...
Please, when you return to
United States
Or whatever you travel
Let the people know what you saw, ok?
Let them know that we're not all bad
That we are not all those bad people from Fox News, ok?
You let them know because we see Fox
News
And Fox News believe that everybody in Middle East is bad
Everybody's terrorists
Everybody has a
bomb
He has a bomb, he has a bomb, he has a bomb
Oprah is here giving away bombs to everybody
Everybody...
Please...
You let them know
We're not all
bad people, ok?
We are not all terrorists
My cousin...
Maybe
WHAT?!
I kidding! I kidding! I kidding!
Look at your face!
Look at your face! Oh, I'm going to die
Look at you...
A plane!
What plane?
I got you again!
Two for two, I got you!
And he is raising my blood pressure every seven seconds
And then he starts breaking it down for me
How stand-up
comedy...
Is starting to bring people together...
In the Middle East
And how he's
starting to, you know...
He's doing comedy
It was crazy, the conversation, you know?
Here in a... In Saudi Arabia
Um...
People they... They like watching the stand up comedy
Because...
We love to laugh, ok?
We love to laugh
It's great to laugh
And people don't think that people in Middle East have sense of humor
They see videos, They see TV
They think we are the
same
They say, oh Middle Eastern people are all angry
Look at that their face, their angry
Everybody angry
Everybody mad
Everybody angry
My friend, we're not angry
It's hot...
Ok?
It's a hundred and seventeen degrees...
Everybody's not mad, their hot! Look it
Everybody has a hot face
Hot face
Everybody hot face
I promise, you give me air
conditioning
I am so happy
We are ok
We love to laugh
I've been doing the
stand-up comedy for about six months now
And um...
I have jokes
Good for you
May I try?
Ohhh great...
Alright man, go ahead...
Ok, very nervous,
very nervous
Ok, here I go
Ok, here I go...
Two Jews...
Walk into a bar...
Not in my country!
Man, you're gonna get my ass arrested bro
We wound up doing shows all over the
Middle East
We were in Riyadh, Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Doha...
And each show, you guys,
was more amazing than the last show
Not because there were so many people
But because the people were friendly
They were fun
They got all the
references
I couldn't get over that
I honestly thought that they were gonna
be like the people from Fox News
And I felt terrible
I felt terrible because I was judging
them
I was prejudging them
And I thought they were going to be a certain way
And I felt bad because all those years
People were doing that to me
Not really giving me a chance
And I was
over there doing the same thing...
I felt so bad
And then when I met the prince...
I was still judging
19 years old
And he's a prince
I thought he was gonna be a brat
He walks up to me
And I was already like,
what's up?!
I failed to realize...
That he's a prince
And he was brought up to be a
prince
The way he carried himself...
He intimidated me in about 18 seconds
Ok, I'm 36
And I meet em, Wassup?!
And he's like...
Jibril
Scuse me?
Jibril
Jibril?
Gabriel
I understand that your name is Gabriel
But in the arabic language, your name is
Jibril
I was welcoming you, in our language
Oooohhhhhh.....
I'm a dick
And I started already imagining what was
gonna happen
I am so sorry
I'm so sorry
And he was so nice
you guys
He was like, I want to thank you
For coming here to Riyadh
And doing all of
these shows
It was so beautiful to see everyone
having such an amazing time
From the little children in attendance
All the way to the elderly people with
a cane
Everyone had an amazing time...
Everyone
It was beautiful, ok?
Beautiful
Religious
people... Laughing
Religious police...
Laughing
They don't laugh at shit
I want you to understand how big this is
There was an American here
Entertaining people from Middle East
There was no violence, no bloodshed
No problems
Everybody was smiling
Everybody was getting along
It is possible
An American was here...
An American was here
He kept saying American... American,
American
Freakin' ten years being called a Latino comic
I had to go all the way around the
world to finally get called American
I was excited!
I was like, say it again
American!
And then I had the most surreal conversation I have ever had with a person...
He looks at me and he says
I want to thank you for everything...
I want to invite you and your friends to come to my palace
So that I may entertain you
I'm like, Are you
freaking kidding me...?
I am not getting invited to a palace by a prince
Oh my god
Up until this point, my only
experience with royalty
Was a Burger King drive thru
All of a sudden, one of those SUVs pulls up
And a guy jumps out in a suit
And I guess his favorite
word was please
Cause that's all he said...
Please...
Please...
Please...
Please...
Please...
Please...
Please...
I'm like, are you kidding me?
There's a man in a suit trying to get me in the back of a Lincoln Navigator
And there's a prince
inviting me to his palace
I'm not gonna lie...
I felt like a hot chick
I was like, oh my God, let's go
Hurry up bitch, let's go!
We get to the front of his palace, you
guys
I'm not gonna lie
It didn't look... like a palace
The walls are really high...
There's barbed
wire around the entire property...
And there's two guys in the front with
machine guns
I'm looking at this and I'm like
This doesn't look like a palace
And I started thinking...
What if I'm on some messed up episode of Middle Eastern Punk'd
You know what I mean?
You thought you go to palace, you to go prison, you're Punk'd!
Fortunately, the doors opened up
And we drive in
And then they closed
And when we got outside, you guys
What we saw was amazing
Outside... Desert
Inside...
Palm trees, bushes, shrubs, a pond
And he had exotic pets
I know exotic pets
Because I know what I have
Over there...
He's got a tiger!
Freakin zebra...
Monkeys
And he had a freakin boa constrictor
I'm like, are you kidding me?
Snakes, monkeys, a zebra and a tiger...
Oh my god, that makes me
Kung Fu Panda
And I started thinking
What if he
decides to keep me?
It sounds messed up
But let me explain
As an American, you cannot just purchase an airline ticket
To go to Saudi Arabia
You have to be invited by a person of
power, you know?
When I left Detroit to go over there
I had to fill out a form that says
I understand that i'm going to Saudi Arabia
And should something happen to me...
One of those things on the list being
Kidnapping
Conveniently right above
Death
America is not responsible
The Prince could have actually... "You're mine"
Two weeks later... Now he's showing someone else
around, right?
That is my snake, that is my zebra
That is my Mexican...
That is my tiger...
Keep me inside of some little box that says Jibril
But it never happened...
And we're walking around
And I actually pulled him aside for a second
I said listen uh... I gotta tell
you something
Well you tell me
I... I need to apologize
What did you do?
I didn't do anything...
I just want to apologize...
For coming here
With the wrong mentality
I says unfortunately I thought that uh...
You know, because it is the Middle East
I thought you guys were going to be
rude
And everybody's been nothing but nice
Ahhh?
I know
I didn't think you guys
were going to speak English so well and
And understand, you know, so many references
and you guys get everything
Ahhh?
I know!
I thought you guys were going to throw
rocks...
But you were funny...
What?
Never mind...
2 out of 3
So we're walking
And he's showing me this and that
And I'm just kind of like looking around, I
thought it was great
And then I saw something that freaked me out
We're walking in the direction
Of a giant cage
And when I saw the cage, I stopped
I was like uh...
Uh...
What's with the cage?
Take a look
Great...
So I walk over towards
the cage
And I look inside
And I notice that there's birds in there
And I was like ah, ok,
cool. It's a birdcage
He got all offended
That's not regular birds...
Those are falcons
I go ok, you have a lot of falcons
We use the falcons for hunting
You hunt falcons?
No no no no no...
Each falcon is
very expensive
100,000 US dollars
They are trained
We go out and we shoot a
little animal
And we send a falcon to retrieve
Would you like to see?
No no no no no no...
I got little dogs, I don't wanna...
Bye Bruno
Before I know it, here comes the other
guy
Please...
Please...
Please...
And he goes inside the cage
And he puts on this leather
glove that comes up to his elbow
And he starts getting one of the Falcons
I'm watching him do this and I noticed
All the Falcons are on these purches about this high
And there's about 15 in a row
And they all have hoods... Covering their
eyes
And I asked him
Why do they have hoods on their eyes, man?
They look like little hostages
Shit!
I'm sorry bro
I'm sorry
I meant no disrespect by
that man...
Seriously
No disrespect... It was a slip
And he was
cool
I understand
Middle East... Hostage...
So the other guy comes out
And he's got
a falcon with him
And he's got a glove
And he hands me the glove
And I put it on...
And he transfers his Falcon to my arm
And uh...
All of a sudden, he starts doing
snapping things
And he's basically showing me that the Falcon's trained
And I
thought that was great
I thought we we're going to kill something
I'm like nooo, but we were just playing with the falcon
And I started getting excited, you know?
And the more excited I got, the
more the Prince started showing his age
Cause then he got excited
I'm like, this is great
It is great
Yeah this is so cool
So cool
I'm like God, you're so lucky to have so many falcons
I am so lucky
Would you like a falcon?
So matter-of-fact, like...
Would you like a cookie?
Would you like a falcon?
Same way!
I'm like, are you kidding me?
Don''t give me a
falcon that can retrieve things
Shoot, you think I'm lazy now...
Hell no
Don't give me, oh no uh uh
I wouldn't even leave the house
I'd be at the front door...
Donuts
And who the hell is gonna watch my
Falcon when I'm up here performing? I
I can't leave it with my buddy Martín in
the back
You know he would abuse it
Take it to
some nightclub
Try to hook up with it...
The red head
