George Lopez with Armen Keteyian

Why You Crying?

On to You

Different Peoples

To Have Not

Encanto

The Bike

Me and Ernie and Freddie

Backyard Weddings

Mi Tía

First Times

False Starts

Team Leader

Commitment

Medicine...Mexican Style

Big Breaks

The Lamp

Show Time

Now's the Time

Summer Fun

Latino Fast Food

Award Winner

The Roof

Hero

I Love You

A Father's Day

Afterword (Or: Chico and the "Harvard" Man)

Armen's Acknowledgments

It is a rare story that touches us so deeply with its humor, sadness, and powerful message that it transcends the walls of race, culture, and class that divide us.

Why You Crying? is just such a story.

Abandoned by his migrant-worker father at the tender age of two months, deserted by a wild, mixed-up mother at the age of ten years, Lopez grew up angry, alone, teased, and tormented in California's San Fernando Valley, raised by grandparents who viewed love as a four-letter word.

Inspired by his idols, Freddie Prinze Sr. and Richard Pryor, Lopez sets out on a tumultuous twenty-year journey into the manic world of stand-up comedy -- trying to learn a skill nobody can teach; scoring one night and bombing the next; fighting anger, alcohol, depression, and doubt all while battling the barriers built to keep Chicanos from breaking through, especially on network TV.

Today, the George Lopez show is a prime-time hit on ABC and his sold-out stand-up performances attract thousands of fans of all ages, each drawn to the sidesplitting riffs mined from a life so sad it had to be funny. Why You Crying? takes an outsider from the San Fernando Valley to Warner Bros. studios to inside the Emmys to plush Pebble Beach and all the way to the halls of Harvard.

Along the way it's pure G. Lo -- raw, real, and, ultimately, uplifting.