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Gabriel Iglesias: A comic on the couch

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Gabriel Iglesias's concert doc The Fluffy Movie is part stand-up, part psychotherapy. by Ben Sachs Gabriel Iglesias is hardly the first stand-up comic to talk openly in his act about traumatic experiences, but a bold aspect of his concert film The Fluffy Movie is that it frames his entire career in terms of personal pain. Fluffy opens with a skit depicting his conception (his mother, fleeing an abusive husband, has a brief fling with a mariachi singer) and early adolescence (in which he escapes his lonely childhood by watching the concert film Eddie Murphy Raw).…

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