Listen, your mom is a security guard… biological mother?
Yeah!
Biological mother.
‘Cause a lot of time we’re raised by aunts— Yes.
And we say - we call ‘em Mama.
Yeah no, no that’s my real mama.
Tonight I’m going to reveal that Guillermo is my son!
Okay hold on— And this is his birth certificate.
George Lopez, you are the father!
I am the father!
Listen, those ICE raids - they got Mexicans so scared.
We’re taking our Christmas lights down, we’re putting our kids in the car seat,
we don’t want anybody to know.
Right.
George, before we get started, we’ve been friends for close to 15 years if not longer
than that.
We’ve been great friends for 15 years.
And it’s crazy to say this, but you’ve never met my mother before.
That’s right!
And all my mama— she wants to come over and kiss you!
The only thing that I really know about your mom is that she’s bad at Bingo.
I’m good, baby, I’m good!
She got good?
That’s what she says, I don’t know she keeps asking me for money.
I love the relationship between you and your mother.
Thank you, thank you.
Because my grandmother raised me, and the moment I yelled at my daughter, she yelled
at me for yelling at my daughter.
Really?
And I said, “well you yelled at me.”
And she said, “yeah but you’re stupid, and she’s not.”
It skips a generation.
Right.
Alright, George, you’ve hosted a late night talk show for more than a night, right?
Interviewing people - was it easy, was it hard?
How was that for you?
Well you know, I don’t usually give advice, but I watched the monologue and I noticed
one thing incredibly important: your hands are ashy.
So put some of that lotion on them.
Coquita, you’re fired!
I told you to take care of my knuckles!
But you want Anthony Anderson to have soft, fresh hands!
Alright, there we are!
That’s a shame - last awards show, Sam Jackson texted me after the monologue and told me
to hit my ankles with some lotion.
There’s a theme going on here!
You know, hosting a talk show - I believe that it is very difficult because of the daily
grind, but also I believe since I’ve known you for 15 years, that you have a true level
of insincerity that I believe will help you.
Because listen, not everyone is interesting, so you’ll be sitting here looking at somebody
and go, “what the [BLEEP] are they talking about?”
Right, right, right, right.
And then you try to clap— to get everybody else engaged.
Yeah it’s like trying to do the Wave at a baseball game, like you’re the one trying
to start it and everybody’s like, “eh…”
Right, right.
Worst guest you ever had on your show.
There was a dude from this show called “Human Target” and does anybody remember “Human
Target”?
He did not answer one question that I asked him about any of the stuff— and his cheek
was going up and down, I’m like dude - I got some Adderall back in my dressing room
if you need to take a hit.
But the guy— I wasn’t gonna say his name— but Stifler, from “American Pie,” - yeah
- came out hammered.
Really?
Like, listen I fell asleep at a casino.
I know [BLEEP] up, he was [BLEEP] up.
This dude was out!
And I didn’t interrupt him because I was trying to figure out what he was saying!
Right.
They said, “why didn’t you interrupt him?”
I said, “I’m trying to figure out what his point is!”
But yeah, you’re doing a fantastic job, I’m so proud of you for everything that
you’re doing.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Now we went from your worst guests - who’s your best guest that you ever had on your
show?
I was fortunate enough to interview Prince.
So he thought that I used profanity too much.
So he watched the show for two weeks - this is a Jehovah’s Witness watching television!
Unheard of!
So I could not cuss for two weeks.
So instead of using profanity, I used vegetables.
Artichoke, eggplant, mother eggplant.
Did Prince try to convert you to become a Jehovah’s Witness?
Yes!
Did Prince try to convert you?
Yes he did, at the elevator in his house, man.
Yes!
What, he hit the top floor and goes, “while I got you in here…”
No, he cornered me at the elevator in his house while he was living here in Los Angeles
and he got this close to me and said, “Anthony, I hear some things are going on with my brothers
and sisters out here in Hollywood.
Is everything okay?”
I was like, “uh, yeah Prince.”
“Anthony, can I call you?”
I was like, “uh… yeah.”
And then something happened in the background, he said, “I’ll be right back.”
So he leaves to go in the back, and then my wife was standing at the front door and she
was like, “Baby, come on let’s go.”
It was like 3:00 in the morning.
I said, “Baby, Prince told me he’d be right back, I gotta stay right here.”
She said why, I said, “Prince asked for my telephone number.”
He said he’s gonna come right back.
And then an assistant comes out and says, “Mr. Anderson, Prince is handling something
in the back, but he wanted me to get your information so he could call you.”
So I gave her all my information: my name— my name, my number, my email address, and
he would call man and invite me out and come to talk about the Bible.
Yeah, but wait a minute, speaking of that - didn’t Prince throw you out of his house?
No!
What?
George…
No!
Where did you hear that?!
From Prince.
Why did he throw me out of the house??
So Prince, he says, “do you mind if I teach you—“ I said yes - I said yes before I
knew what it was.
It could’ve been canasta, it could’ve been martial arts, I said yes.
So he wanted to convert me to Jehovah’s Witness.
And I said yes, so we had Bible study class set up for a Wednesday.
On Monday I went to a Mexican restaurant and I ate jalapeño stuffed rock shrimp.
And I got food poisoning.
And on Wednesday I couldn’t make it, so I called him and told him I couldn’t make
it, and he said, “do you know who is keeping you from the Lord?”
And he said, “the Devil is responsible for you not wanting to come to see me.”
And I said, “I thought it was the [BLEEP] Mexican Restaurant.”
Because when I was throwing up, I wasn’t thinking about the Devil, I was thinking ROCK
SHRIMP!
You can’t mix business and pleasure!
I don’t know why, but George knows.
I’m gonna tell both of you why.
Because of you guys are convicted felons, and you have probation officers, and the last
thing either of you guys need is trouble.
But we’re not dating, she’s just helping me out!
Manolo, I saw how she looked at you.
Serious [BLEEP] eye.
Listen, Manolo, you can’t date your teacher.
Why not?
You dated your daughter!
I didn’t date my daughter, alright?
That was a mistake.
Welcome back to Anthony Anderson Live.
I’m here with George Lopez.
Now George, how many of the characters on the Lopez show are based on real characters
in your life?
You know, I’ve been fortunate that I’ve surrounded myself with some pretty good actors,
and they’re all derived from real people.
Like Manolo, who plays CiTRiC the driver, I had a driver - remember Oscar?
Yeah I remember Oscar.
So this guy drove me for three years.
He passed every place that we went to.
We always had to double back because— with Mapquest and Google and his own instincts,
we passed— and I [BLEEP] hate to get lost.
And I’d say, “do you know where you’re going?”
He’d say, “yes, I got it.”
We were going to the Playboy Mansion, he says, “I’ve been there a lot.”
We passed it!
And I said— he went to a house, and I said, “that’s not the Playboy Mansion!”
He goes, “listen, have you been here before?”
I said, “No.”
He said, “everything’s happening on the other side of the wall.
You can’t see nothing from out here.”
So we ring the bell, some old lady says, “listen if you two guys don’t get out of my driveway,
I’m gonna call the police!”
And I said, “dude, you passed the Playboy Mansion!”
It’s not like a dry cleaners that moves!
You know?
Passed the Playboy Mansion!
Is that why Oscar no longer drives for you?
He doesn’t drive for me anymore, I fired him.
And when I went to give him his check, I passed his house.