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| Popular As | Jaime Monroy |
| Occupation | Miscellaneous Crew |
| Age | 62 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aquarius |
| Born | February 1, 1962 (East Los Angeles, California, USA) |
| Birthday | February 1 |
| Town/City | East Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Jaime Monroy’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Jaime Monroy was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Born Alejandro Xavier Delgado on February 1, 1962 in Lincoln Heights, East Los Angeles, California, the son of a Spanish beauty mother and a talented Tex-Mex father, Jaime Monroy spent his early years growing up on the beaches and tropical coastline of the Mexican Riviera in Mexico.
Jaime Monroy's father owned a retail jewelry business called "Loliz" which gave he and his mother an affluent lifestyle, traveling regularly to resorts in Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.Running on the beach, going out on sailboats and watching sunsets; this was his life on the Mexican Riviera.
Approaching school age, his mother "Lola" insisted to her husband that she wanted her son Jaime to attend American schools in the United States. So the family relocated back to Lincoln Heights, in East Los Angeles California.
East Los Angeles is the predominant Latino barrio in Los Angeles. This was a culture shock for Jaime. No beaches, no sailboats, no palm trees and beautiful sunsets.Making friends at school was very difficult because although Lincoln Heights is a Latino barrio most of the kids grew up speaking English.
Jaime only spoke Spanish, his father spoke English at work, but at home, his parents spoke Spanish.While attending Griffin Avenue Elementary School in Lincoln Heights, Jaime's inability to speak English made it difficult to fit in with the other kids.
He felt alone. One day at school he found a small theater and remembered how much he enjoyed "Los Musicos" (musicians) playing on the stages in Mexico. He excitedly ran up on the stage, tripped and slid in front of a bunch of his fellow classmates, and everybody started laughing at this odd new kid.
In a moment of embarrassment, he instinctively made a funny face and instead of the kids laughing at him, he was making them laugh. It didn't take a word of English to communicate instantly something that made all the people in the room notice and like him because he made them laugh.
That's when Jaime knew he wanted to be a comedian.Being in the spotlight started early on in high school. Jaime became a West Coast Olympic Prospect to represent the United States in track and field. He is listed in America's Names and Faces Library under "Athletic Achievement".
Jaime faced a serious disappointment when President Jimmy Carter boycotted the summer Olympics because of the Iran Hostage Crisis.In 1978, he started his Hollywood career the same year the new Hollywood sign went up.
He got different jobs to make his own show business breaks at age 16, by day, with a job handing out tickets for television show tapings in front of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater which gives him access to every studio and television show taping in town.
Jaime got on stage and developed his pinpoint timing and his trademark spontaneous ad libs with comedy legends like Redd Fox, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, Jackie Mason, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Steve Allen, George Burns, Charlie Callas, Sammy Shore, Rich Little, Slappy White, Foster Brooks, Jerry Lewis, Rip Taylor, Gary Owens, and the Bob Hope USO Tours, to name a few.
He has opened for more legends in comedy than any other Latino comedian. It was there that Jaime was artistically adopted and mentored by Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and "Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle. Jaime then started performing at the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip, the Playboy Club and every open-mike night he could drive to.
Upon graduating high school that summer, Jaime was hired at Golden West Broadcasting, KTLA Channel 5. Jaime became the youngest "page" ever hired on to any studio lot, which came with some teasing "here comes the youngest studio executive on the lot and his mom" from his superiors and stage crews.
He had a natural gift for public relations and promotions, advertising sales and program development. He rounded up tourists from bus groups to fill in studio audiences, ran errands for Johnny Grant (Honorary Mayor of Hollywood) and was hand-picked by Studio Chief Gene Autry himself to give V.
I.P. tours of the lot.With his day job secure working at the studios, Monroy set his sights on making it to the stage. Then he got his first big break as the warm-up comedian on the television show "Solid Gold" and becomes the youngest warm-up comedian in television history.
He was only 18.Jaime Monroy is one of America's established comedians with over 5000 appearances to his credit in comedy clubs, colleges, Las Vegas casinos, Atlantic City showrooms and concerts across the United States of America.
He toured with his contemporaries (unknowns at the time) including Jay Leno, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Miller, Arsenio Hall, Jenny Jones, Tom Dreeson, Johnny Dark, Brad Garrett, Bill Maher, Sinbad, Pauly Shore, Jerry Seinfeld, Sam Kinison, Jim Carey, Robin Williams, and fellow Latinos Paul Rodriguez and George Lopez.
He was a semi-finalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Comedy Competition hosted by Jay Leno, a top ten finalist in Comics Take a Stand For MDA and is listed in Hispanic Magazine's Top 100 Latino Comedians in America.
While performing his stand-up comedy Spanish Fly Tour and appearing in Power 106 FM Comedy All-Stars, his television pilot break led him to star in his own sitcom South of the Boulevard.A self-proclaimed "Art-repreneur", he claims he is half-artist and half-entrepreneur.
Jaime Monroy led a $25 million dollar merger among all specialty t-shirt companies by creating the Specialty T-Shirt Guild of America ( S.T.G.A. ). Monroy's concept was to create more profit by "buying" than "selling".
Purchasing in bulk quantities rather than driving up the wholesale prices, which in turn would drive up retail prices and could reduce sales, but still maintaining a top quality garment.Monroy became a patented inventor and received a United States Patent for redesigning a sterling silver locket which unfolds and holds six miniature photographs, which sold out of department stores and catalogs across the country, as a keepsake for young and old, friends and family, to hold those close to their heart around their neck.
Monroy opened an East Coast style retail store, SOHO trend-setting clothing and jewelry, in Westwood Village, California. Then Monroy rented empty walls and in turn, offered advertising space on those empty walls in his Rediscover Westwood project, which still stands today.
He is also a recipient of the International Latino Talent Convention ( ILTC ) Visionary Award and has received commendations from the City of Los Angeles for his "Outstanding contributions in the World of Entertainment" and from the State of California for his "Inspirational Excellence in the Arts".
Currently, Jaime Monroy is in development to host a television talk show. Jaime Monroy is known as the "Hollywood Desperado" from the documentary profiling his life and career, "Hollywood Desperado: Rebel or Royalty".
