OMG, Hi! is a weekly podcast with George Lopez featuring surprise celebrity guests, listener call-ins, stories of George’s haunted house, hot takes, and more.
Comedian Fahim Anwar joins George, Gil, and Grant on today’s episode of OMG. The guys go deep from the jump, delving right into Fahim’s high school impressions of Michael Jackson for the talent show – which goes nicely with George’s story of having to testify at MJ’s trial years later – and even with George’s theory that the skeleton emoji is actually Michael Jackson’s face without the skin. Where would Fahim see his perfect self down the line? What was it like to eulogize Richard Pryor? What IS manifest destiny… and is it really any different than manifesting your own destiny? Find out all this and more on today’s OMG HI
Fahim Anwar is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian, actor and writer.
Off the momentum of his one hour special THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS, The New York Times listed Fahim as a “Most Promising Future Star.” He’s appeared on CONAN, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS and performed at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. His recent FILM/TV credits include WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, NEIGHBORS, DRUNK HISTORY, CARMICHAEL SHOW and SUPERIOR DONUTS to name a few. Fahim served as head writer and starred on a sketch show special for Comedy Central with his comedy group (GOATFACE) which includes Hasan Minhaj from THE DAILY SHOW. Off the success of the sketch show special, Fahim was named by Variety Magazine as one of 2019 Comics to Watch, and was invited to be a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast as well as WTF with Marc Maron.
Lopez has been featured in four HBO specials, The Wall in August 2017, It’s Not Me, It’s You in 2012, GRAMMY-nominated Best Comedy Album Tall, Dark and Chicano in 2009, and America’s Mexican in 2007. Lopez also performed as part of HBO and TBS’s Comic Relief 2006. His acclaimed comedy concert, Why You Crying?, debuted on Showtime in 2004. He released his third standup CD, El Mas Chingon, in 2006, which also earned Lopez a GRAMMY nomination in the category of Best Comedy Album. In 2004, he was nominated for a GRAMMY in the same category for his CD Team Leader.
In 2006, Lopez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition, Time named him one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America, and the Harris Poll named him one of the Top Ten Favorite Television Personalities. He also starred in Lopez on TV Land. Produced by Lopez, the series explored how he struggled between his two worlds and crises that are often of his own making.
The half-hour single-camera serialized comedy aired for two seasons. Lopez Tonight, a late-night television talk show on TBS also ran for two seasons. It represented Lopez’s return to series television after co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in Warner Bros. Television’s groundbreaking hit sitcom George Lopez, which ran for six seasons on ABC.
George Lopez remains a hit with viewers in syndication on both broadcast stations and cable’s Nick at Nite, ranking as one of the top-rated shows on the network and among the top five comedies and top 20 weekly programs in syndication.
