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Paul Rodriguez
Latino stand-up
comedian Paul Rodriguez honed his craft by playing the Improv-Comedy
Store-Catch a Rising Star circuit in the early 1980s. After making his
first film appearance in DC Cab (1983). Rodriguez starred in the
short-running sitcom AKA Pablo (1984), drawing from his own experiences
to play the role of up-and-coming nightclub comic Paul (Pablo) Rivera.
Though AKA Pablo was far from a hit, Rodriguez continued to be very much
in demand for such comedy films as Miracles (1986) and Born in East LA
(1987). On TV, he hosted the 1988 syndicated version of The Newlywed
Game and was a regular in the 1989 sitcom Trial and Error and the 1990
adventure weekly Grand Slam. In 1994, Paul Rodriguez doubled as star and
director of Million to Juan, a comedy-fantasy update of Mark Twain's
"The Million Pound Bank Note"
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