A.K.A. Pablo

1 9 8 4 (USA)

Short-lived comedy about a struggling young Hispanic comedian and his large, noisy family, who rooted for his success while wanting him to treat his Mexican-American heritage with almost solemn dignity.

Paul Rivera - still called Pablo by his family - used a lot of ethnic jokes in his act, which sometimes offended his traditionalist parents, Domingo and Rosa Maria. But every Mexican joke he used seem to spring from his own home situation, whether it was about his sister Lucia and her swaggering husband Hector, stuffy brother Manuel and his coquettish wife Carmen, or unmarried (but anxious) sister Sylvia.

Jose was Paul's fast-talking but inexperienced agent, while the rest of the regulars consisted of the Rivera/Del Gato children.