A Fan Of Iggy Lasagna

He’s the Los Angeleno with the chameleonic voice, morphing dozens of times per show into every celebrity from Dr Phil to Arnold Schwarzenegger, but on his next trip to Australia, Pablo Francisco has decided to switch up his live show and tag team with an old friend. “I’m looking forward to getting down there and bringing a new posse of people,” he says. “I’m bringing a gentleman by the name of Steve Kramer on this tour. There’s a TV show we’re working on together, it’s another Pablo Francisco hour-long special but it has cartoons in it so we’re going to try to put the cartoons into the live show too, meld them together. We thought we’d just play around a little and add some electricity.”

"Well Steve does a good Iggy Lasagna... what’s she called? Iggy Azalea. She’s from the streets. The streets of Australia: 'Who dat, who dat... dere’s a kangaroo dat.'"

The Chilean-American comic met Kramer about 20 years ago while they were both working the room at an LA comedy club. “I couldn’t believe how diverse he was,” Francisco says. “He was musically inclined and very funny. I saw a TV show he was on and called him up and said, ‘Why don’t we get together?’ He does super impersonations. It’s good to partner with somebody up there, because comics are addicted to other comics.”

Francisco promises more of what audiences love in his next run of live shows. He’ll be poking fun at pop culture phenomena such as Deadliest Catch and Dog The Bounty Hunter, and he’s been working up some brand new celebrity voices. “Well Steve does a good Iggy Lasagna... what’s she called? Iggy Azalea. She’s from the streets. The streets of Australia: ‘Who dat, who dat... dere’s a kangaroo dat.’ And I’ve got Mark Wahlberg: ‘Hey man, what’s the deal man?’” he says, breaking into a perfect take-off of the actor’s style. “He’s heavy-breathing kind of, he’s in every movie. ‘THIS SUMMER, HE’S OUT OF BREATH,’” he says, aping the late and legendary  movie trailer voice guy, Don LaFontaine, before diving back into Marky Mark: “‘Hey man, I gotta get to my next movie.’”

Francisco was great friends with LaFontaine before he passed away in 2008, and his voice is so close to LaFontaine’s that he occasionally scores trailer voiceover work now on movies such as The Expendables series – “but they captured his voice so well”, Francisco says, that those gigs are few and far between. “They recorded every single word Don’s ever done, they got the its and thats and thoses and ares and all the vowels, they can just put it all together themselves and pay his wife.”

YouTube originally made Francisco the huge star he is, blowing him up almost overnight. “I played the Baltics this year, man, Dracula country, it was absolutely crazy. They put me all the way over there and I sold out. My manager said there are so many places now that want me - Norway Sweden, Germany. YouTube is fantastic.”