{"id":471723,"date":"2025-12-26T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471723\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:30:16","slug":"comedian-gabriel-iglesias-christmas-show-to-bring-in-nearly-30000-pounds-of-donated-food-for-sa-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471723\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Gabriel Iglesias\u2019 Christmas show to bring in nearly 30,000 pounds of donated food for SA Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Comedian Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias\u2019 Christmas Day comedy show is helping stock the shelves at the San Antonio Food Bank. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The price of admission to the show at the Tobin Center was generosity. To get a wristband, each person had to donate 10 cans of food. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe like to help other people, and we help our neighbors also,\u201d said Maria Reyna, who waited over 12 hours to be one of the first people in line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The donation line wrapped around the Food Bank building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As of Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Food Bank told KSAT they expected to end the night with nearly 30,000 pounds of donated food. That amount could fill nearly 3,000 grocery carts for families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Iglesias gave the line of donors an extra special gift before the show: his presence. He spent his afternoon at the Food Bank talking with fans and taking selfies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Instead of just cutting a check himself, Iglesias said hosting a benefit show helps raise awareness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Iglesias told KSAT, \u201cEspecially with everything that\u2019s happening in the country right now, more than ever food is going to be very important because a lot of resources are being taken away and this is at least one way to kind of at least, you know, help the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Comedian Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias\u2019 Christmas Day comedy show is helping stock the shelves at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,44679,169246,7202,14063,7203,358,78058,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-471723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-gabriel-iglesias","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-food-bank","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tobin-center","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783049155618475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}