Joey medina biography

Joey Medina, a Puerto Rican who was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, is one of the freshest and funniest comedians around today. Joey spent most of his teen years perfecting his boxing skills that would one day earn him a State Championship as a Professional and a shot at the world title before becoming a heavy-hitter in the comedy arena. Joey is a veteran of over 50 television appearances including his own SHOWTIME Comedy Special titled “Joey Medina: Taking Off The Gloves." Joey hosted his own hilarious Morning Radio Show in Los Angeles on KXOL 96.3 FM.

Recently, he toured alongside Russell Peters in New Zealand and Australia where he performed in front of over 36,000 fans. He headlines comedy clubs, casinos and theaters throughout the United States and has also toured Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He also has proudly performed for the US Armed Forces during wartime in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait and Iraq several times, as well as the USS Roosevelt aircraft car

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Joey Medina Biography

Biography

Comic and actor Joey Medina has made a name for himself in Latino comedy circles through his stand-up specials, acting and directing. Of Puerto Rican descent, Medina was born in the Bronx, New York, and trained as a boxer throughout his teens. After winning a State Championship as a professional boxer, Medina changed course and began to focus instead on his comedy. Alongside fellow comics George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Alex Reymundo, and Paul Rodriguez, Medina was one of "The Original Latin Kings of Comedy." This stand-up film became the best selling Latino comedy DVD ever produced. Medina's directorial debut, "El Matador," a film he also wrote and acted in, follows a modern matador, descended from a long line of bullfighters, who must fend off his family's evil nemesis. The film picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Acting awards at the East Los Angeles Chicano Film Festival. On Sí TV, Medina wrote, directed, produced, and hosted "Circumsized Cinema," a sort of Latino "What's Up, Tiger Lilly?" in which old, kitschy Mexican films were

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Joey Medina is back where he started at Laff’s.

When Joey Medina was inspired to try stand-up comedy, he was living in his car and donating plasma for money. He got up at Laff’s Comedy Caffe with no intention of becoming a comedian. At the time he just wanted to have funny friends.

“I didn’t think I was good enough to be a comedian,” he said. “I thought that took a special kind of talent like an athlete.”

Five open mics later, he said, “I remember telling myself, ’I can start my whole life all over again.’ I didn’t have anything. I could do whatever I wanted. And I made the decision that night to become a comedian.”

Thirty years later, he’s performed comedy multiple times all over Europe and Asia, with the USO and on his own. He’s made 50 appearances in TV shows, and he co-starred in the Paramount Pictures movie “The Original Latin Kings of Comedy” with Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez and Alex Reymundo.

Recalling his earliest forays into comedy, Medina said, “I remember I borrowed ($12.50) to watch Paul Rodri