On Februrary 4, Pablo Francisco took over the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo. With his sold out performance, he would not stop the laughs from bouncing off the CFA walls. From his new acts like Jackie Chan’s “Leave me alone” to an oldie but goodie, “Little Tortilla Boy” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Francisco kept the crowd going from beginning to end. But what is he like one on one? Check out our earnestly sporadic interview with the funny man, himself.

G: There aren’t a lot of minorities in Tuscon. Did that ever affect you as a Hispanic kid?

PF: You know, when I was in Tucson, my next-door neighbors were all Mexican and then there were Latin, Mexican, and White people. It was great because not one of them complained about white people. It didn’t surprise me at all because I was having fun playing football the whole time down the street from them. It was comedy, football, and occasionally marijuana. [chuckles]

G: My favorite stunt is ‘Little Tortilla Boy,’ how did it all start? Since Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California, do you feel it’s a little bit awkward?

PF: No. I think it’s actually cool because Arnold Schwarzenegger stays in the news and that’s good for me. I can try to switch it up. It was gonna be ‘he ran for governor, now he must run for the rest of his life.’ And smoke my taquito’—I was thinking of using that for ‘Little Tortilla Boy’ too. So, no, it’s actually great; Arnold Schwarzenegger keeps making his way in the headlines and on the news so I thought, why not? It’s the best thing to perform.

G: Do you have any TV shows, movies, or gigs coming up?

PF: I have a show on Dish network if you guys get that. It is call Si TV, it’s right after NYPD Blue and it’s in between ESPN classic and MTV 2. We’re working on a little project with Disney we’ve got to keep that really low key. They gave me all the illustrations and I have to keep it down. [I’m doing] all the colleges and clubs possible.

G: Do you think the Internet and the college community also popularize you?

PF: Yeah, Dane Cook probably revolutionized it, he made that the best thing for all of us. Dane Cook got on MySpace, and the radio does a lot of things so when we plug everything on the radio, people go right to your website. Check it out—you can see Bits n Pieces on the Internet.

G: Do you have any plans for the future?

PF: Uh, I have plans right now just to do another album deal working with Comedy Central and Paramount. I take little steps at a time. I would like to be a big movie star.

G: In Bits n Pieces and Comedy Central Presents, you don’t do political comedy. May I ask why?

PF: Yeah, because I think it runs in a circle, man. It’s always the same people going after each other over and over—he’s bad, he drinks Coca-Cola, he drinks Pepsi, he’s bad, he drinks Evian instead of Nile water, it’s like a cluster of confusion that I don’t really want to tap into. The Jon Stewart show [The Daily Show] on Comedy Central is probably the funniest show; they take that and they show you, man, these guys really argue over nothing. They want you to get into their bullshit… so I stay away from their political stuff unless it’s Marion Barry or something funny, you know, that’s about it.