Michel Courtemanche

He has starred in Quebecois films La Nuit de Noces and Karmina 2, and on the Secret Adventures of Jules Verne television series, on the Sci Fi Channel (United States). In addition, Lopez performed in Real Women Have Curves, which was feaured in the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and later aired (to much acclaim) on HBO. He has even inspired a popular one-of-a-kind hardcover comic book. ABC, who had been criticized by Latin-American groups for lack of Latinos on their television shows quickly picked up the television series, which began airing in 2002, aired in ABC's TGIF lineup in 2003-2004, and is now shown on ABC at 8:30 on Tuesday nights. Courtemanche has internationally sold out enormous houses usually reserved for rock stars (although such shows are quite common place for comedians in Quebec). In 2000, after several years of performing stand-up comedy, Lopez was approached by actress Sandra Bullock for Lopez to produce and star in a comedy. Bullock was concerned about the lack of Latino-oriented sitcoms on American television and pushed to get a sitcom on television that starred Latinos but wasn't exclusively about the Hispanic American community. His second, The New Adventures of Michel Courtemanche, filled theatres in both North America and Europe and spawned his second international hit video. Much of his humor was drawn from the financial poverty of his upbringing and of the Latino community in general.

His debut one-man show, A New Comic is Born, ran for more than five hundred performances and earned him two Felix nominations. He became a popular stand-up comedian, especially among the Latino community for his satirizing of Latin-American life and culture in the United States. The Quebecois comedian and actor has drawn hundreds of thousands to his one-man shows in Quebec, France, Belgium & Switzerland. Lopez grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. Michel Courtemanche was born December 11, 1964 in Laval, Quebec. George Lopez (born April 23, 1961 in Mission Hills, California) is a Latino American comedian, actor and entertainer and star of a self-titled, ABC sitcom, The George Lopez Show.