Carlos Alazraqui

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Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962)<ref name="Voice">Template:Cite web</ref> is an American actor, comedian and producer. His voice acting roles include the original voice of Spyro from Spyro the Dragon, the Taco Bell chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials, Rocko on Rocko's Modern Life, Denzel Crocker on The Fairly OddParents, Lazlo and Clam on Camp Lazlo, Winslow on CatDog, Puma Loco on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Jonathan Weed on Family Guy, Rikochet on ¡Mucha Lucha!, Felipe on Handy Manny, Walden on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Paco on Maya & Miguel, Scissors on Rock Paper Scissors, and the Disney character Panchito Pistoles since 2001. He is a weekly contributor on The Stephanie Miller Show. In live action, Alazraqui is known for playing Deputy James Garcia on Reno 911!

Early life

Carlos Jaime Alazraqui was born in Yonkers, New York on July 20, 1962, to Argentine parents.<ref name=AlazraquiCSUS/><ref name="Voice" /> He has Sephardic Jewish heritage from his father.<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> His mother was a Methodist priest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He moved with his family to Concord, California, at an early age.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Alazraqui graduated from Concord High School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He attended college at California State University, Sacramento from 1982 to 1986, where he began competing in open mic contests.<ref name=AlazraquiCSUS>Template:Cite web

  • a "...then attended school, college in Sacramento after two years of junior college playing soccer and running track. I decided to do four years at Sacramento State from 82-86." — 00:58-01:08.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After winning in his fourth year, Alazraqui took his prize money and moved to Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Stand-up comedy

Alazraqui originally began his career in stand-up comedy, he was the winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition in 1993.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He beat out fellow comedians Marc Maron and Patton Oswalt.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In addition, Alazraqui joined Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour in 2014, playing some of the dates with Jim Ward and he has a semi-regular segment on Miller's radio show Coffee with Carlos.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Film and television

Alazraqui is known for his live-action work in Reno 911!, in which he portrayed Deputy James Garcia for five seasons (2003–2008). He played the same role in the series' 2007 spinoff film Reno 911! Miami. As a nod to this role, he also played a "bumbling" Reno cop in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Let it Bleed". He has been a celebrity on the Tom Bergeron version of Hollywood Squares.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Alazraqui also wrote and starred in The Last White Dishwasher, a short film.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2020, Alazraqui reprised his role as Deputy James Oswaldo Garcia in the seventh season of Reno 911! which aired on Quibi. He also appeared in the 2021 Paramount+ movie, Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon. The eighth season of the series, now titled Reno 911! Defunded, premiered on The Roku Channel in February 2022.

He reprised his role as Denzel Crocker in The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, a live-action sequel to The Fairly OddParents, which premiered on Paramount+ in March 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Voice acting

Alazraqui has performed several voices for Nickelodeon cartoons, including Rocko on Rocko's Modern Life, as well as Denzel Crocker and Juandissimo Magnifico on The Fairly OddParents, Winslow T. Oddfellow and Lube on CatDog, Scooter on SpongeBob SquarePants, and Scissors on Rock, Paper, Scissors. He also voiced several additional voices for the Cartoon Network shows, Cow and Chicken, Kidscity: The Village Dome of Kids, and I Am Weasel during their runs in the mid-late 1990s. He also voiced Spyro in Spyro the Dragon. He was later replaced by Tom Kenny as Spyro in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Spyro: Year of the Dragon and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. In 1997, he voiced Crash Bandicoot in promotional trailers for the game Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back,<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> also switching out live performances as him with Tom Kenny at E3 1997.<ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> He also voiced the Taco Bell chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rikochet in the first two seasons of ¡Mucha Lucha! and Mr. Weed (the head of the "Happy Go Lucky" toy factory) on Family Guy. It is mentioned in the DVD commentary track that Alazraqui was reluctant to leave Family Guy. In particular, Seth MacFarlane suggests that the death of Alazraqui's character took the actor by surprise. He also voiced Dr. Julius No in GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

Alazraqui in 2005

In 2004, he voiced Paco the Parrot on the PBS Kids series Maya & Miguel and in 2005, he added the voices for two Cartoon Network series: The Life and Times of Juniper Lee where he played Monroe, a guardian dog with a Scottish accent and three characters in Camp Lazlo: Lazlo, Clam and Chef McMuesli. In 2006, he added Salty Mike from Squirrel Boy and Walden in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! on Nick Jr. to his credits. He played Wisk in Glen Hill's 2000 film version of L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. He also provided the voice of Nestor in the Happy Feet films. He has also voiced the Hanna-Barbera characters Baba Looey, Mudsy the Funky Phantom, and Loopy De Loop in modern appearances.

Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life, described Alazraqui's normal voice as bearing "no accent at all". Marsh describes Alazraqui's "Scottish accent" as "one of the best" and that he performs his other accents as "all very well". According to Marsh, Alazraqui uses various accents in his comedy routines.<ref>Dan Abrams' interview with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ</ref> He had worked for the Disney Channel on Handy Manny, where he provided the voice for Felipe, the bilingual Phillips-head screwdriver and for Abuelito, Manny's grandfather. He was the original "voice guy" on the Stephanie Miller Show, later being replaced by Jim Ward, who had previously substituted for him. In January 2008, Alazraqui returned to fill in briefly while Ward recovered from surgery. In 2014, he voiced Mesmo and Torts in Mixels. He voices Tio Tortuga in Sheriff Callie's Wild West.<ref>Sheriff Callie's Wild West on IMDb</ref>

In 2023, Alazraqui joined the cast of The Case of the Greater Gatsby, a noir parody podcast produced by Shipwrecked Comedy, playing a singing cowboy actor in 1940s Hollywood.<ref>The Case of the Greater Gatsby on IMDb.com</ref> The show also features his Fairly Odder co-stars Lesli Margherita and Mary Kate Wiles (Wiles is also a producer). The show premiered on July 26, 2023.<ref>The Case of the Greater Gatsby on Apple Podcasts</ref>

Web

In 2009, he collaborated with Ted Nicolaou on the web series The Club,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which was released in November 2010. The series features Jill-Michele Meleán, Debra Wilson, Johnny A. Sanchez, Lori Alan, and Daran Norris.

In 2013, Alazraqui starred as a drug dealer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in one episode of the Melinda Hill web series Romantic Encounters.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Alazraqui resides in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two daughters.<ref name="collider.com">Template:Cite web</ref> One daughter, Rylee, is a voice actor as well. Rylee is the voice of Rohk-Tahk in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Prodigy.

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