One for
the books
"Ghetto Klown is coming out
(fall of next year) as a graphic
novel. I'm so excited." Are you
going to go to Comic-Con?
"You bet! I wanna be at all
the Comic-Cons! [We laugh.]
Wherever there's a Comic-Con,
you'll see me there in my booth.
I'm very proud of that, because
I think that's my masterpiece of
my work, the one that lent
itself to the most, too…
Onstage people had to imagine
everything, but in a graphic
novel you're going to see all
these little details that you
never expected. I can't wait."
[You can watch Ghetto Klown on
HBO On Demand.]
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And they're a pleasure. Hanging out with them is like
dying and going to heaven. They're funny all the time.
I had the best time ever," he says. John has reprised his
role in the Ice Age franchise as Sid the sloth and is
currently working on that, in addition to a number of
other projects he's balancing.
Show business has embraced John and granted him a
stage to act out the show he was born to present. So,
what's the best part about it all? "There's a lot of good
things. But I say the top three are, when you do great
work, I mean, it's like religion, man. There's no other
high in the world that meets it for me. Secondly, working
with great artists, man. That's always such a beautiful
thing. I feel so lucky and privileged when I work with
great artists and I'm hanging out with them. People who
are questioning the world, people who want to make the
world a better place than when they came into it. And
three, its fun, man," he laughs. "When you're doing great
work it's so much fun. When you're doing bad work,
there's nothing worse either." Acting out has acted in
his favor, considerably. John has spun his humble
beginnings into a fruitful career making people laugh and
sating his inherent desire to perform – I would say that
John has definitely gotten the last laugh.
Follow John on Twitter @JohnLeguizamo.
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